Jakob Nielsen’s review of amazon’s Fire

A thorough and thoughtful review at

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/kindle-fire-usability.html

I diverge from Jakob on one point: I’m not a fan of any mobile sites and happily read The New York Times on my iPhone 4.

Perhaps that’s just me and my thin fingers. When confronted with a poorly designed mobile site, I abandon ship.

Many mobile sites also make it inconvenient to switch to their desktop version (see for example the mobile versions of espn.com, The Guardian, and Politico). Designers of mobile sites shouldn’t surpress their competition. The user capability to move from the mobile to the desktop version should be at the top of the frontpage, and not buried at the bottom end of the frontpage along with the site map and the privacy warning.