Zumobi ditches beta, gets its act together

Quickly search for local fare from Zumobi’s widget interface.

Surfing the Web on a cell phone screen can be the laggy, draggy pits, but companies like Zumobi want to construct it a rush. The announcement of Zumobi’s first full release (for Windows Mobile 5 and 6) brings the Microsoft-birthed, now Microsoft-partnered platform for delivering mobile substance closer to the dream.

I’ve been following Zumobi’s young career for some date and happily, its character is catching up to its glitz. Version 1.0 corrects many of the beta’s

more glaring errors, including major functionality potholes that are now mostly paved by.

For the uninitiated, Zumobi is a grid of 16 thumbnails that users access by zooming into a quadrant and next zooming in again to an often-customizable ’tile,’ each of which is populated by the subject matter partner and updated several times a day. For instance, Amazon’s tile operates a portable book store that additionally urls to Amazon’s mobile site. AP News, MTV, Epicurious, and Flickr are other well-known types….

Orginal post by Jessica Dolcourt

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