When mobile newsletters go bad

Opinion

Note: My thanks to the Droid Bugs blog for detailed instructions on capturing Droid screenshots on a PC via USB cable.

bad_mobile_1 While reading my email (Gmail) on my Motorola Droid this morning, I found several industry newsletters waiting for me. That last one caught my eye, so I opened it to find …


bad_mobile_2 … that it was going to tell me – among other things – what Motorola would have to do to make the upcoming Droid X successful. I have a small vested interest in Droids, so I selected the link at the very bottom of the page.
bad_mobile_3 That link opened the mobile version of eWeek’s “News and Views” (see URL) which showed me, um …  nothing related to the lead story.

No problem; obviously, the “More…” link would take me to the story – or at least a link to it – right?

bad_mobile_5 Actually, no. There were links to several stories, but nothing related to what Motorola would have to do, yadda, yadda, yadda.

So, rather than click through more of the 73 available pages of links, I went back to the email to see if I’d missed something.

bad_mobile_6 Aha! My bad. Scrolling down a ways, I found what was obviously the correct link to the story on eWeek’s site. So I selected it and got ready to …
bad_mobile_3 go read the story on my PC!

So much for the mobile web, at least as far as eWeek is concerned.

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