Cell Phone News 2.0 has now had a design update, which should improve matters considerably.
There is a substantial difference between the two sites though. Mobibu depends on user submissions, while Cell Phone News 2.0 mostly depends on RSS feeds from over 300 cell phone blogs and news sites (although it also allows user submissions).
For Mobibu this means that, in theory, users will only submit novel or useful articles. The downside is that it means that news items arrive late, sometimes never. Mobibu, at the time of writing has four (yes, four)submissions from the last two days.
Cell Phone News 2.0's automated system means that hundreds of news items are submitted every day. The disadvantage of this is that there is a certain level of junk postings when bloggers discuss what they had for breakfast. However, it does mean that *every* topic gets covered and in depth. It is a far more useful research tool. For casual readers, the front page obviously provides an easy way to keep up to date with everything of interest in the cell phone world.
The new version also allows members to add blogs to a favourites list, so they can keep track of many blogs in one place, and there is even a 'save' function for individual useful articles.
One more substantial difference between the two is that Cell Phone News 2.0 uses direct links to the articles, wheras Mobibu forces users to visit the individual article summary page before they can click through to the full article.
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There is a substantial difference between the two sites though. Mobibu depends on user submissions, while Cell Phone News 2.0 mostly depends on RSS feeds from over 300 cell phone blogs and news sites (although it also allows user submissions).
For Mobibu this means that, in theory, users will only submit novel or useful articles. The downside is that it means that news items arrive late, sometimes never. Mobibu, at the time of writing has four (yes, four)submissions from the last two days.
Cell Phone News 2.0's automated system means that hundreds of news items are submitted every day. The disadvantage of this is that there is a certain level of junk postings when bloggers discuss what they had for breakfast. However, it does mean that *every* topic gets covered and in depth. It is a far more useful research tool. For casual readers, the front page obviously provides an easy way to keep up to date with everything of interest in the cell phone world.
The new version also allows members to add blogs to a favourites list, so they can keep track of many blogs in one place, and there is even a 'save' function for individual useful articles.
One more substantial difference between the two is that Cell Phone News 2.0 uses direct links to the articles, wheras Mobibu forces users to visit the individual article summary page before they can click through to the full article.