The WAP site of 160by2 came up seven months ago, and since then it has grown manifold and today close to 15 percent of our SMSes is through mobiles. With so many of our users on mobile, it becomes extremely important to let our WAP users have a great user experience, just like their website counterparts do. It is also challenging in a way, because unlike the website, we do not have seemingly infinite space on the mobile screen and so providing all the features while maintaining the simplicity on a mobile screen is extremely vital.

Over the past few weeks, we have been working strenuously to develop a WAP site that would sync the features available on the WAP site with those on the website. Today, we are not only releasing a cleaner, better looking homepage but are also adding up links that hitherto did not exist on the WAP site. We now have a MENU link at the extreme top of the WAPsite. This shall be the one click route for the user to access a vast array of features. Given that we guys at 160by2 are always developing newer features for the website (and the WAP site), the MENU page would also let the users access all these features from here. We have introduced the ‘My Interests’ link in the MENU page where you may select categories of interest to you.

WAP users would have already tried our ‘Upload Phonebook’ option. We thought the user experience would be better with placing this link on the MENU page rather than the homepage, and hence you shall find a link to this as well on the MENU page. This apart, we have also introduced the CHANGE PASSWORD link. This was an option long overdue and we have finally got the link for you on WAP.

We have loads of features planned for users in the upcoming weeks and keep checking back on the MENU page to see the list grow by the day. As for the other pages, we feel that the new design gives a much cleaner, uncluttered look to the entire WAPsite. This has been the hallmark of 160by2 all along, hasn’t it?