Rightmove? Not with Vodafone as the mobile Internet is bugged
Rating: the force isn’t with you and you’re not my father…
by Bena Roberts
I received an email this morning about Rightmove.co.uk partnering with Vodafone. I usually don’t need an excuse to surf; so I thought I would give it a go.
Firstly I enter live! and I still hadn’t actually played around on Vodafone live! as a lot of my testing as been on the open Internet. So before I explored Rightmove, I played around with the new Vodafone live!
My conclusion
1. Vodafone has killed Vodafone live!
2. It’s bugged.
3. The portal keeps swapping in and out of the old and new portal.
4. Try this test: Access live on a Nokia 6880 mobile device. Hit the email box on the top right handside under live! Then scroll down and read the contents. Then press back.
5. Hey presto where am I? Yep – did it three times and all the time you are back to the old Vodafone live! Only when you click on something on this page do you get back to the new Vodafone live!
General conclusion
1. What a joke
2. If the portal is full of bugs such as these how are consumer going to take it seriously?
Still not ready to go onto Rightmove I click Vodafone News. The top story is Paris Hilton is out of jail stream or download clip. I decide to stream it. It costs 50p I click accept.
Guess what. I have paid; but I can’t access the clip. No explanation why no apologies.
Hello? Knock Knock Vodie? This is unacceptable. I WANT MY MONEY BACK?
So now its time for Rightmove.
I start on the home page and do a Google search. I get over 26,000 results for Rightmove on the web and 119 mobile ready sites. I click the mobile ready site and its an article from Earth Times with one tiny mention of Rightmove at the bottom.
Not the best start. How difficult would it be to have the mobile site first. Rightmove have obviously gone mobile – Vodafone obviously know about it… so come on, get it together … a websearch on Vodafone should make mobile.rightmove. appear at the top of the page? Obviously Google’s meta search couldn’t do this (time for a white label mobile search provider Voda…)
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5 Responses to “Rightmove? Not with Vodafone as the mobile Internet is bugged”
Seems to me you can’t tell the difference between left and right Bena. The 6680 is a terrible phone for caching, it’s more than likely that your handset browser still has the old live! page. Clear the cache and try again. I’m sure Vodafone will refund your 50p if you call 191 and tell them what happened.
From what I can tell the mobi version of Rightmove lives in the personal finance menu (there’s some text under the link that says property.
It all looks ok to me but I’m not sure about the google search either. Maybe it will be refined. It’s a new service after all.
Comment made on June 26th, 2007 at 4:03 pmBy the way I assume you mean 6680 since the Nokia 6880 doesn’t exist?
Comment made on June 26th, 2007 at 4:05 pmOhhh! I’ve touched a nerve haven’t I! Julio, darling. its a refurbished device so it never had the old live on it (GoMo is trying to save the envrioment). Its definitely a bug on the mobile internet. I know Vodafone would probably refund me the money - but its not the point. Why can’t it see that I have a problem and haven’t been able to download? Surely that is the best user experience - being helped when in need not having to complain afterwards. A few companies offer this service and Wind in Italy has had huge success with it.
Comment made on June 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pmBut anyway - I do mean the Nokia what ever it is you said - and thanks for your comments!! left, no I mean right.. no, no oh sod it I don’t know…
No nerves touched. I just don’t want you getting all flustered over something that could be explained with a little know-how:)
Comment made on June 27th, 2007 at 4:44 pmflustered! Know how - are you flirting with me?!
Comment made on June 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pmLeave a Comment