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Creating A Mobile News Portal

Posted by timothy on from the sliding-through-bottlenecks dept.

gletham writes "The Nokia 6600 coupled with the Opera browser is a powerful tool for browsing the web, but, to reduce his data traffic charges and get just the information he wanted, Philipp Lenssen used his own web site to feed RSS content to his Nokia 6600. In this interesting article Philipp explains in detail how he went about it."

7 comments

  1. Is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    A guy converts an RSS feed to XHTML? Don't people do this all the time, especially with blogs? Whats new here?

  2. Since when... by Ianoo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since when is some random person writing very poor quality PHP code news on Slashdot? Most of the portal software around can output RSS these days anyway, if they're worth their weight in salt.

    1. Re:Since when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
      writing very poor quality PHP code

      That's a fairly redundant statement, since like 99% of all the php code out there is utter shit. Or at least I personally haven't managed to see any of the quality stuff...

  3. Memigo does this better by costas · · Score: 2, Informative

    OK, this is a plug, but I think memigo does a mobile news portal genuinely better: you get a personalized URL to access news over a mobile phone or PDA, and what's more the headline view can link you to only lightly-formatted content of each article (i.e. a PDA- or printer-formatted version of each article). Much better than linking to whatever version the site's RSS feed links to. Check it out.

  4. Very popular idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    There are extensive discussions about this topic in usenet.

  5. There's already an RSS reader for the S60 by Kris_J · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I want to load RSS, I'll use an RSS reader for my phone. When I bought Opera for my N-Gage, I just switched to the "high volume" billing rate for GPRS and I switched Slashdot into the low bandwidth mode. If I want news, I view News.Google's text page -- Opera renders it quite well.