Times of Oman and Al Shabiba mPaper Edition

Times of Oman and Al Shabiba news papers has done an amazing thing, something that has never been done before in the Sultanate and hardly ever been done in many of the other GCC countries. They have launched website that is accessible through all WAP (wireless application protocol) enabled cell phones.

The Times of Oman's mobile website is all in English and the WAP address is wap.timeofoman.com and Al Shabiba's website is all in Arabic and the WAP address is wap.shabiba.com.

I tried out these websites and they are very easy to use and very useful. They have everything from the latest news to movie timings to prayer timings.

This is a short video that I took of myself navigating through the Times of Oman mPaper.

During this navigation, I spent about 35 bz, that is with the pictures enabled and naturally, it gets cheaper when you disable all pictures but then, it looks dull.

This is very useful for a person like me who is always around places looking for a story and still be able to check what's going on in newspapers without having to go buy one or go home to check my RSS feeds in my PC.

The world is developing towards mobile devices and we should see more such services.