Glocals apps for iPhone, Android and Symbian (this first, pls) would be great :)

+1 for Android 

I just found the Gartner 2010 Q2 market shares at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone:

Symbian: 41%

Blackberry (RIM): 18%

Android: 17%

iOS (iPhone/iPod): 14%

Glocals is a lost cause on a crackberry with OS5.  Ye old dreaded "request entity too large".

What browser do you use on it?

On the BB?  The built-in browser.  I tried Opera and the user interface annoyed the hell out of me in less than 60 seconds.  What else is out there?

I have the built-in browser and Vodafone live (even though it's Swisscom) on my BB. I just tested from my android as well and the site really isn't mobile compatible unfortunately.

But I don't have the same error on the blackberry, can you login? That's where I get stuck.

Hi folks

We know the site is not very mobile friendly at the moment, and while there's no plan to launch phone specific aps at the moment, we're working on a light/mobile friendly version and hope to launch it within the next few weeks.

We'd love some input from you - which functions do you think are 'must haves' for the light version?

Thanks

Oded

The site won't load at all.  I can't even bring up the home page.

For me, the most useful would be the ability to view event descriptions in case I need to see a street address.

I wasn't criticising glocals at all, I've only recently discovered it and it's an excellent resource.

Great job

Mainly these:

- Looking up events pages

- RSVP to events

- Sending and reading messages

These would be great to have "on the road" so one can join an event at the last minute.  Chat and forum posting are just secondary features.

Very true. The forum is definetely not needed

agree.

I think forum, classifieds etc not needed..

its mainly the events, including SPVP, info on events etc and reading, checking and replying to msgs

hi - same with my iphone so you're not the only one with the problem

can type into the subject field but not the message field :(

Hello Oded,

Any news for the light mobile version?

Thanks

Marco

Hello Oded,

that would be great! Most important are all kind of messaging functions. Some text windows work and some do not. Even some Links do not work and some do. All those dynamic Javascript Addon - when not really done well - makes a site difficult to use - sometimes even on a PC.

Test post from iOS 5. Will it work?

Damn!  It worked!!

Dear Oded,

I know everything on Glocals is for free, which is cool and rare these days, but I have to admit that I would be more than happy to download a Glocals iPhone-application and to pay, lets say 5-6 chf for it. (to pay the developer) Would be curious to know how many other members are prepared to pay, and if yes, how much.

Cheers, Lisbeth

i cannot find the app ..  what do I search ? 

Helen: there is no app. We're working on a lighter mobile-friendly version tho. 

How are people making it work then ?

On Safari, mainly...or any of the browsers on the iPhone. :)

Is there any update on the light mobile version? I am so much looking forward to it!

with Safari it's impossible to go for example from page 1 to page 2 in the activities list! For the other linksi have found workarounds, but this object is considered as text :(

thank you for your time and effort you are putting into this!

I guess it would need to be completely redesigned. A friend just had a website built for his business and the webmaster told him that the trend nowadays is to build the mobile version as the core then "stretch" it for the PC version.

Dear All,

How about crowsourcing and crowdfounding. We can support and finance this app. Actually, we must have it it will simplify our life and one of the coolest feature could be the location-based functionality (find nice restaurants, shops etc.. close to you, use the radar to find other glocals members for a drink, etc..)

Yeah, let's put glocals on Kickstarter! lol

Being able to upload photos from events etc from a mobile device would be useful - the current upload page seems to use a java applet, which won't work well with a lot of mobile devices (shame as I'm a java developer), there are other ways to do this these days as most serverside languages support multi-part requests for straight file uploads which could maybe be offered as a simpler alternative for devices where the applet just won't work.

http://www.glocals.com/forums/new-site-feedback/Glocals-Mobile-for-iOS--iPhone-iPad--193088.htm#msg_193088

Did any progress get made on browsing the website via iOS? I tried to do this last week when out and about and you couldn't move forward any pages on things to do. 

Hi Matt. 

I'm writing this reply on my phone and it is indeed a pretty painful experience :-( 

I'm happy to tell you that we started working on a mobile version for glocals and I just received some first drafts from the designer this morning. 

I expect this project to take a few weeks but it's finally happening and I'm very excited about it. 

Thanks and have a great week, 

Oded