David Phillips writes:

Perhaps with the right platform you could start by providing members with the ability to check article status and many of the other functions we currently use from our PC or laptop.

Then if possible use the same platform to roll this out to enable publishers using their mobiles to download an article and post it on their blog or site.

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EngineerTiat writes:

I agree with David’s comments.

Personally I would like to be able to access my member’s area and be able to post my articles from my smartphone.

I would also love to be able to search through the database, choose an article that I like and post it to my blog.

This will be a truly mobile lifestyle!

Warm regards
Tiat

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Lance Winslow writes:

With the new technologies coming fast with Mobile Computing, you should make these things feasible, by having very simple low byte screens at the cell phone user level. They should be able to search categories and then articles by title and you should have listed the top articles and newest articles, with scaled down graphics for very fast loading. If the user can surf EzineArticles.com fast, they will.

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Ann Bradley writes:

The iPhone is coming out June 29th. Are you talking about something next generation? Or are you suggesting a single use device?

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Lance Winslow writes:

Yes, I am and the technology and competition is far beyond the mere offerings of the first generation of iPone coming out. Many industries already have hand-held devices that do so much more.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Some thoughts:

You don’t need an iPhone to surf websites or have an extended mobile cellular experience.

Most phones today have built in browsers and allow you to either surf their pre-programmed version of the Internet or the wide open net where you can enter in a website directly.

Motorola and Nokia currently lead the highest numbers of surfers to EzineArticles in terms of mobile devices… with over 4000+ views/hits last month.

Personally, I’m using a Motorola i880 Nextel phone and I’ve been using it to get news, weather, movie listings, sports scores, instant messaging, and travel maps. It has a 2GB MicroSD card in it, so I’m able to carry most of my MP3’s with me, yet I don’t find this to be a major value because I don’t want my cell with me in the gym and because the bluetooth is not in stereo [yet] and my car doesn’t know how to play my MP3’s from the cell through the car stereo (this will be awesome when that works).

Couple of our EzineArticles techies have blackberries so they can receive server pages, secure log in to the servers remotely, and surf the public websites to see if all services are up.

Ironically, we don’t use our cell devices for email because the load is just too high at 2500+ per day.

Had an idea yesterday to restrict the use of cell phone users of the site for a few weeks so that we could present them with a poll to tell us what they were expecting or how they wanted to surf EzineArticles from their mobile device.

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Lance Winslow writes:

Perhaps a “www.pda.EzineArticles.com” button which is loaded first. “If you are on a mobile device click here” then the graphics are toned down and only very fast loading content scaled down is presented. Make it easy and they will come. Our company use to do this so customers could order mobile car wash services at their offices on their Blackberries and Palm Pilots back in 1999-2001 in the high-tech cities in the US.

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