Opinionated comments on mobile phone industry news

TiggDo is a new service that provides an easy way to aggregate Internet information for easy access from a mobile phone. It e.g. supports RSS feeds (as used by most news services and blogs etc), maps, product prices, local info, stock info etc.

It's completely free, which makes it sound even better.

It's also possible to add your own mobile service to TiggDo, provided it's approved by the TiggDo team.

Trying it out:
* I went to www.tiggdo.com.
* Signing up was simple. Verification was done via email.
* After that I could directly decide which feeds etc I wanted to see.
* Adding RSS feeds was easy enough (name and a URL).
* It's also possible to add BBC feeds via check box selections. I wish this was available for more than BBC though.
* Adding maps, horoscope etc was a simple clicking on a link.
* The mobile site is at wap.tiggdo.com, so I went there via my phone.
* After logging in and saving the next page as a bookmark I got a quick return route with no need to log in. Same approach I use for Mobile Blog at wap.abiro.com.
* My selected services were available on one single screen, so it was easy to navigate to what interested me at the moment.

Notes:
* The service requires a phone with a WAP 2.0 browser. That's commonplace today, but if you have a very old phone it might fail due to this.
* All access is done via the phone's browser, so there's nothing to install on the phone.
* Local information does not use any means to find out your position. You have to enter where you are. That goes for Maps too.
* Maps seems to only work for USA (?).
* It shows all RSS feed entries on one single screen instead of as titles first. I guess some prefer it this way. I don't, as some entries can be very long.
* The responsiveness is quite good on a UMTS phone, and it's probably so also on a GPRS phone, as most information is text.

There are still some rough edges, but it all works in a stable way. I didn't find any of the services I signed up to not working.

Definitely worth a try.

Tiggdo - Mobile RSS and other services for your mobile cell phone