Usage
Content then. As we mentioned earlier, Mobizines isn't a browser. When you run Mobizines, you don't necessarily connect to the Internet, and you don't download a web page as such. Instead, at certain intervals throughout the day, content is downloaded and cached in your phone, so it's there when you want to check it.
Seeing as the framework is already present to display that information in Mobizines, all that needs to be delivered at those intervals is essentially text and maybe a few images. This amounts to a few KiB of data; so providing your have a reasonable deal with your phone operator, the service is cheap. Indeed, operator charges are the only fees you'll incur using Mobizines, excluding the 25p if you install it via SMS.
In the case of GQ magazine, content consists of short articles along with a picture atop each article. The articles are long enough to be interesting, but they won't keep you free from boredom for long. The images are a plus, and the fact that the content is pre-loaded means you're not sat waiting for pages to download, keeping with Mobizine's slick feel.
Our thirst for articles satiated only momentarily by GQ, we moved on to the BBC Headlines, for which there was a very snazzy animated splash screen. Pointless, and in any other scenario, one of my personal pet hates. Yet, in this case, it seems to augment the capabilities of Mobizines.
BBC's Headlines are even shorter than GQ's stories. However, there are more of them, and each come with enough of a 'blurb' to fill you on the gist of each story. However, any more in the way of content would push up the operator charges. So instead, there's a means of opening up your web browser and reading a particular story in full
At points throughout the day, a message notifying you that a publication has been updated might pop up. However, this feature can be turned off, if you'd rather just check whether something has been updated in your own time.
