New Resource: Mobile Elements

Thursday March 5, 2009

Mobile Elements

Recently we were sent a new mobile resource that has a really interesting business model, and could be a huge benefit to developers not wanting to spend days optimizing for all the various mobile handsets.

The site is called Mobile Elements. Basically you create a website using standard XHTML, then call their various APIs, which will optimize your code for mobile handsets based on their extensive device database of literally thousands of phones.

The service also gives you the ability to override any of the device profiles in order to make your site display perfectly. Although a little pricey for most websites right now, we think it's a wicked cool idea

Posted in Mobile Resources

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Danny Ashbolt

March 5, 2009 | 1:33 PM

I've checked out mobile elements and it's a great solution if you don't want to have to create all the image resizing and handset matching / UA profile matching code required with solutions like WURFL. Mobile Elments does the heavy lifting for you and lets you focus on the core value of your product, not making it look good on all the different devices

Yes it costs money, but you get what you pay for.

Danny

What do you think?