Pownce Goes Mobile, Puts the Twist to Twitter
Pownce has filled in one of the gaps in its current feature set with a new mobile version available at m.pownce.com. So far there’s been no official announcement on the Pownce blog, but co-founder Kevin Rose mentioned the mobile site in a Pownce note (natch) yesterday. A follow up post from another Pownce developer calls the mobile version “very alpha.”
Indeed, in testing the new mobile version on the iPhone I encountered a couple of bugs. The most annoying was that initially the site claimed I didn’t have cookies enabled and couldn’t login. However, refreshing the page caused it to accept the login and from there I was able to successfully post a note (the same cookie problem cropped up when using Firefox to shoot the screenshot above so it isn’t just an iPhone issue).
But otherwise Pownce mobile is pretty close to the normal site. The only missing feature I noticed was the lack of file attachment options. Mashable noted the same thing using Opera Mini, so it would appear that, at least for now, you won’t be able to share files via the mobile version.
The new mobile version, alpha though it may be, puts Pownce on a mainly level field with Twitter and certainly qualifies as one of the most requested features for the still-beta site.
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