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MSN Mobile Website Is A Pretty Useful Portal

by Ronen Halevy on Aug 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 am EST
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A friend of mine pointed out the mobile version of MSN’s website to me and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it actually looked quite good on my BlackBerry. Obviously I have some gripes like the video not working but that is to be expected since the site is targeted at Windows Mobile users. It has some great content including weather, news, sports, finance, & entertainment. Its especially useful if you like MSNBC, Fox Sports, and Microsoft search.

Its very nice and clean which is really impressive considering how old school RIM’s mobile.blackberry.com website looks in comparison.

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Check it out by heading to mobile.msn.com from your BlackBerry.

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9 Comments to “MSN Mobile Website Is A Pretty Useful Portal”

  1. Posted by: Oliver
    August 22, 2008 at 6:40 pm EST

    Fyi – the mobile.msn.com link at the bottom hyperlinks to a gwhiz download page!

  2. Posted by: Ronen Halevy
    August 22, 2008 at 7:22 pm EST

    My bad. Thanks for catching that Oliver. I must have used autocomplete on the link…

  3. Posted by: gameboy213
    August 22, 2008 at 8:13 pm EST

    this has been my homepage for my bb for over a year now

  4. Posted by: Ron
    August 23, 2008 at 1:13 am EST

    We’ve tried to optimize for BB over the course of our first year. We look forward to BB supporting streaming video this fall with their first phone supporting video streaming, the BB Bold.

  5. Posted by: Ronen Halevy
    August 23, 2008 at 10:58 pm EST

    Ron,
    Most of the OS 4.5 and 4.3 devices that are out now do support video streaming from YouTube and others through support of 3gp if I am not mistaken. Will this ever be supported?

    Nice work by the way. The site was very useful.

  6. Posted by: Ron
    August 24, 2008 at 3:58 am EST

    Ronen,
    As far as I’m aware the BB Bold will be their first smartphone that will support direct video streaming on their OS. We’d love to be corrected on this matter and start serving video streams to BB customers.

    This blackberry article points to the need for downloads
    http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/articles/216/KB05419_f.SAL_Public.html#10

  7. Posted by: Ronen Halevy
    August 24, 2008 at 11:01 am EST

    Ron,
    That is a very old knowledgebase article based on OS 4.2 for BlackBerry. Since then RIM has released devices with OS 4.3 and 4.5 which both support video streaming. You can see what I mean at this link describing the features in OS 4.3 when it was first released:
    http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB14216&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=173652304&stateId=1%200%20173650272

    3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Progressive download

    Allows streaming and playback of media from web sites on the BlackBerry smartphone using a browser.

    3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) Progressive download

    Allows streaming and playback of media from web sites on Wi-Fi® enabled BlackBerry smartphones.

    This is not the best knowledgebase article since it is already out of date but I can confirm that my BlackBerry can stream video from Youtube mobile over an edge connection with AT&T.

    • Posted by: Tim
      February 15, 2009 at 5:04 am EST

      You have clarified BB wifi devices can stream video from websites. Can Blackberry Bold stream video 3GPP on a LAN network from a wireless camera just giving IP address of the Camera device. Or do you have to specify RTSP:// for path.