Mowser is a new service allows us to view Web on our mobile phone. Mowser takes XHTML pages and transcodes them so that we can see them on the mobile device’s screen. There are two advantages of transcoding:
- The data transferred to your device will be less than the original ones. If you don’t have unlimited data plan, this will save you some money.
- Many Web sites are not designed for small screen of mobile device. Personally, I don’t like doing horizontal scrolling. Mowser will reformat the page so that you don’t need to do horizontal scrolling.
The idea is actually not new. A couple of months back, I have reviewed Skweezer, which offer the same service. Opera Mini also has similar service with different approach.
Mowser is founded by Russel Beattie, a famous blogger in the mobile world. He used to have work for Yahoo! before he decided to start and develop Mowser.
What can we do with Mowser? You can enter a URL of a Web site and transcode it to mobile version. The screenshot below shows S60.com viewed without Mowser.
The following pictures show S60.com viewed from Mowser. As you can see, now you don’t need to do horizontal scrolling.
One feature that I really like from Mowser is that you can search information from many different services by using keywords. For example:
- “gs” to search on Google Web.
“ys” to search on Yahoo Web.
“ls” to search on Microsoft’s Live.com.
“eb” to search on eBay.
“wi” to search on Wikipedia.
and many more
The following picture show some example of search feature using Yahoo!
This one is searching using eBay.
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