Frog Leaps Into Smartphones
Tired of the boring homepage your cell phone provided left on your phone? Well there’s some competition for that boring homepage that is leaping into the ring. The site is GetFrog.com, and after setup at a PC, your free homepage full of customizable links and colors is setup. During setup you pick the sites you want icons for on the main page and a link is sent to your phone for the URL of your new page. The categories it currently offers include news, sports, tools, shopping, entertainment and business with limitations to sites that offer mobile versions. Currently, Frog only works with QWERTY Smartphones, but look for future expansion into the T9 market soon. Leap on over and check it out yourself. Sorry.
Not really that impressive anything that has to be setup from a pc is not that great. Although being a new idea it sounds useful for someone.
“Frog only works with QWERTY Smartphones,…”
But not a single Symbian on the list. No frog for my qwerty E61i or E70.
i wish the blackberry 8100 pearl was listed as compatible for getfrog! couldnt find it on the drop down list.
You actually can set up FROG from your phone itself… go ahead and try it.
Meanwhile, we’re working hard to add more and more phones to our compatibility list. You can request that your phone be added by visiting getfrog.com, or emailing us at support@getfrog.com
just used frog, yeah, not even useful in NYC, the only bus route available is NYC water taxi, the ATM locator is fails to mention WHAT ATM is being shown and what the fees are, the movie locator showed me theatres 3 miles away first before I had to go to the one in my neighborhood, the restaurant locator if you don’t choose the correct cuisine, shows you restaurants A-Z and doesn’t allow you to jump to any other letter without going page by page by clicking “next page”.
If it was me, and I had 5 minutes to use this service to find something, I’d do the following:
GO to the NYC transit webpage to find not only bus/subway routes by address, but also find when those busses/subways are coming (NYC Transit now shows me that information)
ATM locator would be either a call to my bank, or a visit to their Website.
Restaurant locator would be a google-based-zip-code search.
Theatres would be a visit to movies.com or again a google-based zip code search for movie theatres.
What’s the point of showing me a link to google email or yahoo email when I can set up the former using pop-forwarding and the latter if I’m paying for a yearly fee and doing the same?
Not a useful site if it’s not even going to show me something that is:
1. Useful to me locally.
2. easy to navigate without having to click through 6 levels of navigation to get to information irrelevant to me.
FROG is a mobile portal – a gateway to other mobile websites. We have more than 60 links available to choose from, so you might have to check a few out until you find your favorites.
We’re sorry to hear that you had an unpleasant experience with any of the sites FROG connected you to, although it sounds more like minor grievances with those particular sites rather than any sort of technical issues.
And thank you for the suggestion to add the NYC transit official mobile site to FROG. If you would like to suggest a link, please email us at support@getfrog.com. We are always interested in adding new mobile-friendly links to our growing collection.
Thanks for checking FROG out, your comments and suggestions are always appreciated!
Funny, a minor grievance for a “portal” site that channels transit information for cities that are how shall I put this, not very usable to 99% of us who live in an urban area.
A restaurant review site that doesn’t let you jump to a restaurant either by first letter or by cuisine once you’ve “made” your selection.
Oh, wait, how about email sites that are in any way NOT accessible from the sites themselves.
Personally, you could do better by simply using the built-in Outlook program and syncing with Outlook on your desktop. And, in case you didn’t know, GoogleMail supports pop-forwarding so why in god’s name would I use a portal site to get email delivered to my built-in email client?
I have to SUGGEST a link to the NYC transit site. One of the largest metros in the world and you guys don’t know how to link to it.
Save yourselves a TON of grief, just get Metro for free which supports many languages and even more transit systems and is updated VERY frequently.
The URL to Metro is:
http://nanika.net/Metro/
IT has more than 350 cities all around the world in a lot of
The “technical” issue I had is that Frog is NOT ready to be released into the wild unless that wild happens to be a very controlled jungle where there are no other real-world competitors , which unfortunately in this case, abound by the hundreds if not thousands.
The site is cute, usable, definitely not. Mature to be considered a competitor, not even close. It needs to be called tadpole, not Frog.