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Old November 1st 10, 09:30 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Nov 1, 9:39*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 18:33:27 on
Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:


My phone has a web browser. Doesn't yours?


My phone has a tiny screen that wouldn't be any use for browsing, even
if I had a data plan to pay for it. It was bought for the in-built
camera, not the extra connectivity.


Seriously, though, have a go:

http://wap.tfl.gov.uk/planner

It's designed for tiny screens. I used to use it on my Sony Ericsson T68i,
which had a 101x80 screen. Even if you haven't got a data plan, it
generates so little traffic that it won't cost you much.


Agreed - along with the (perhaps more useful) National Rail wapsite,
replete with useful LDBs, plus the Journey Check wapsites (if the TOC
in question has one).

I have a pretty basic mobile with tiny screen which I use for some
basic browsing - TfL, National Rail and JCheck as mentioned above, BBC
news, weather and sports results, BT phonebook, Google for a few
nuggets of info - worth noting that if you go through a Google search,
Google actually reformats full sized web pages to suit your device -
it can actually work surprisingly well.