Another Portal Option

In a previous post, I suggested Mobileplay as a great choice for your homepage if you want easy and quick access to mobile-friendly websites. I knew there had to be something bigger and better out there. I was right: PDAportal.com, "The Portal for the Small Screen." PDAportal is a directory of PDA (or phone) friendly websites. There are a lot of links here. You can browse these sites by category and by language, then sort them by last name, popularity (hits), newest additions, or recent access. What's really neat is that you can create your own personalized portal ("My Portal") where you can choose which sites you want to have easy access to. It also tells you the weather in your hometown and the local time, among other things. Granted, you can get all that info pretty early, but it makes for a nice homepage portal.

Web 2 Homepage

The default homepage for Web 2 is i wireless' website, which you will probably want to change, if you haven't already. The one thing I miss after switching from Web 1 is the easy access to some of the more popular mobile websites that you could get to with just a few clicks from the Web 1 homepage (http://pwr.iwireless.com). Unfortunately, you can't access that page from Web 2. I was going to recreate a page designed for the small screen with all the same links for your (and my benefit), but it turns out that Mobileplay (see photo) already has something similar, and it offers much more than the "walled garden" of pwr.iwireless.com. I only have two complaints about Mobileplay so far: No ESPN and no links to the big web-based e-mail services (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc.).

You can access Mobileplay with one click from Opera Mini's homepage, or you can enter http://mobileplay.com as your homepage in your Web 2 settings.