Mobile-readiness of Finnish mobile sites

Sometime ago I blogged about using well known web sites with mobile phones. Today popped into my mind to check out how well Finnish mobile sites has been done and how well them perform on mobile devices.

Lazy bast.. eh, guy as I am, I used simple one page test only (offered by ready.mobi) and on sites which first came out from my hat (well, I don't wear a hat but I believe you know what I mean). Ready.mobi provides detailed results as well as overall rating on a scale from one (1) to five (5). And, tadaa, here's results of Finnish well known mobile sites:

YLE yle.mobi	4,91
Helsingin Sanomat	3,75
Sonera Surfport	3,64
digitoday.fi	3,56
City-lehti	3,5
Maaseudun tulevaisuus	3,39
MTV3 handy	3,35
dna Tasku	2,95
Kauppalehti	2,28
Elisa	only wap access...

You can draw your own conclusions from above results but I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed... well, on the other hand, YLE's yle.mobi has rightly earned the first place as it's done by us :) (well, who raises dog's tail if not the dog himself...).

Social Network services driving the growth of mobile internet

At the end of the January comScore released interesting report: Social Networking Services are driving the growth of Mobile Internet in Europe.

This is many ways interesting as it tells that mobile phone users are not just consuming and using one-way published content, like news, but also using their mobile phones to communicate and participate.

Many Social Networking sites, like Facebook, has understood this and made use of them quite easy. Still many major web site or service don't have any working access for mobile phone users. Weird, as mobile phones are more personal and, in the near future, more important devices to use network based services than PC's at home or work.