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Posted By PatrickJ on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 under iPhone Sites That Suck |
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Find out everything about new cars, trucks and SUVs with expert reviews and opinions from around the Internet. The car reviews offer a "shortcut" to researching new vehicles by summarizing other road tests and helping shoppers discover which features and opinions matter to them. Price a new car, compare vehicles, see spy shots of future cars, view and download car photos, and read the latest news on auto shows and concept cars.
That’s the description of The Car Connection iPhone ‘web app’ in the iPhone Application List. I’m afraid the site really does not live up to it. To be fair, this site looks like it may be quite a nice and useful resource *if* it’s developed and grown out quite a lot, but for now it’s not ready for prime time at all.
Here’s some quick reasons why:
The ‘Latest Car Reviews’ section is not organized or categorized in any way. So instead of being able to choose to navigate to a subsection on, for example, SUVs / family cars / sports cars, or whatever you’re after, you just get one listing of reviews. The listing is also very short - offering only 10 actual review links and then a general link to check out the main site’s various RSS feeds. The reviews pages themselves are not optimized for iPhone in any way that I can see. Upon landing on a review page, you’ll immediately need to do a fair amount of pinching and scrolling to start reading.
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Posted By PatrickJ on Friday, January 4, 2008 under iPhone Sites That Suck |
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Yahoo has made a change in the last day or so, that offers up a ‘mobile’ version of their site when you browse to it from the iPhone. And it’s pretty rank. Well, it’s probably OK if you’re on a mobile with a crappy browser and just want to get to some info quickly - but on the iPhone it’s a big disappointment.
Just about the only good thing about this version of Yahoo is that its pages load very fast. But they are very drab, almost all text on a lot of pages, and just not very nicely designed - at least compared to so many other iPhone optimized sites out there. This seems even more surprising given how many news sites have made efforts and put out iPhone specific sites - Yahoo’s news section is a very poor offering compared to many of those.
Oh, and even some of the basics are done badly in this version. If you’re on an individual story page, like the one shown in the screencap above right, check out the only link to get back to Yahoo home (without multiple taps of the back button) - it’s the *tiny* little link the arrow is pointing at. That’s just dumb.
I think this our first ‘iPhone Sites That Suck’ post. So feel free to let us know about others that you’d like to nominate for this category 
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