NYTimes Launches New Mobile Site
September 10th, 2006
The New York Times launched their new mobile site this week: mobile.nytimes.com. You can also access the site at m.nyt.com, which is nice when typing in the URL on your phone.
The site is rich with content — you can get pretty much all of the “text” content you can get on nytimes.com. The site looks great on phones with larger screen (Treos, Blackberrys, etc) but is text-heavy on smaller phones. This is the first launch of the site, and it will go through some changes in upcoming releases. Some UI changes need to be made to it, especially for smaller-screen phones (e.g. I have to scroll across the Log In and TimesSelect links, as well as the main ad, before I can access the first story link). Jakob Nielsen makes some valid comments about the new site’s UI on paidcontent.org. Look for some updates to the site in the coming months…
Here is a screenshot of the site’s main page, with only the first story shown:
