Out and about
Have you used ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Mobile services to keep abreast of football scores, or check the weather forecast, or dip into news headlines when you're out and about?
If you have then you're in a minority at the moment, but I'm guessing that if that question was asked again in five years then you'd be part of a big majority.
If you haven't tried it so far it's entirely understandable.
Telecom data charges, connections speeds, handset costs and poor user interfaces are all barriers to entry.
And for some people being part of the always-on, always-connected world simply isn't a requirement.
But there's no doubting the world has become a faster place, where transmission of data by text and e-mail and instant messenger and FTP has become part of the fabric of everyday life.
Broadband, wi-fi and Wimax have started to effect profound change with on-the-go people wanting information at their fingertips around the clock and at a time and place of their choosing.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Mobile is part of meeting that change. It’s already the UK's number one service for news, sport and weather with around 2.7m users a month.
This week the wraps came off an enhanced offering to take advantage of larger, more colourful screens and to better promote existing content.
As well as dynamic updates to the front page there are new ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Local pages for every part of the UK, There’s better promotion for travel and weather and a new site for Radio 1 Newsbeat with entertainment headlines and pictures. If you’ve never seen it and would like to know more go to the website here.
And if you’re an existing user we’d like to hear what you think of the changes we’ve made and what else you’d like to see as the service develops.
Comments
I regret that hand-held user interfaces make strides in the wrong direction for visually impaired surfers like me. Ever more 'exclusive' technologies in smaller formats! But it's not just me. It's a large number of normally-sighted (...for their age...) folk over 50 that are going to be at a data loss - with tiny screens not conveying the medium's bigger picture! And to think that disabled access was getting better by the end of the last millennium :-/