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Telemoose is Amazon for your iPhone
Today, we've come across another website optimized for the iPhone. TeleMoose is a front-end for Amazon, and it's pretty nice. The UI is tidy and much quicker than browsing Amazon.com over EDGE. Select the category you're after - DVDs, for instance - and you're brought to a page of sub-categories (comedies, dramas, etc.), which features a handy, Cover Flow-like navigation as well as a list.
Placing an order, reading reviews and so on are all presented well. You iPhone jockeys will want to bookmark this one.
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Steve Rhodes said 3:36PM on 7-17-2007
At iPhoneDevCamp, they gave a presentation on how to optimize web pages for the iPhone and EDGE
http://telemoose.com/iphonedevcamp/
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Rubbinz said 4:24PM on 7-17-2007
So... unsecured EDGE or public WiFi connection and you willingly input your credit card information on an unsecured third party site, who then supposedly sends that to Amazon's site.
May you get what you deserve.
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Dennis said 4:32PM on 7-17-2007
re: #2
Seriously.
And what the heck is up with modifying "the real internet" when you can already get to it from the iPhone.
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trick said 5:07PM on 7-17-2007
the product links include their referral code too, so they (telemoose) make $ when you purchase through them. just FYI.
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Frank said 6:47PM on 7-17-2007
personally, i was thinking of using this just for comparison shopping -- i didn't even consider that some people would try to BUY from their iphone on an unsecure line. (scary!)
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Roger Wong said 2:26AM on 7-18-2007
Aren't all these transactions taking place via HTTPS? Telemoose doens't capture any credit card info. Once you click on the Buy link it goes to the Amazon product page where you have to click Add to Cart, etc. Once in Amazon's checkout process, it's all done securely.
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Laurence said 9:09PM on 7-18-2007
Perhaps commenters 2 and 3 haven't experienced how slowly Amazon loads via Edge without a streamlining app like TeleMoose. Of course one can get to the "real" internet and to Amazon.com, but why not make the journey faster and more attractive? From what I can tell, commenter 6 is correct: the security risk is the same as buying over the "real" internet because Amazon's checkout process governs the transaction.
Why complain about someone making some pennies from a sale if they've helped me get what I want more easily **and** the pennies aren't coming out of my pocket! Seems like a reasonable trade-off to me.
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jbelkin said 6:31PM on 7-24-2007
yes, telemoose gets credit if you buy something ... you can just go to www.amazon.com - it's smart enough to figure out to give you the mobile look & feel.
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dan said 8:06PM on 7-31-2007
@-#8 -- actually, because mobileSafari is a "real" browser, not a castrated WAP piece of crap, Amazon serves up the full version of it's site to the iPhone. If they wanted to, they could detect for the iPhone user agent, but they don't appear to be at the moment.
BTW, Amazon just killed TeleMoose's affiliate account, and the developers are partnering with another large shopping site who is smart enough to cooperate.
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Joe said 2:06PM on 8-06-2007
And, Amazon killed this application recently. So no more telemoose linking to Amazon. It was great too. Amazon going to do their own application???
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