Designtion has made two improvements to the Cell PDF Reader service. First, there were some reported iPhone xhtml incompatibilities that have been resolved. Second, recognizing that mobile devices all have memory, screen, and internet connection differences, you can now customize the size of the PDF pages for optimization for your phone. 1x (~1k per page) is the default and should be compatible with all devices. However, you can choose up to 5x now (~5k per page) to display more content at a time for higher-powered devices. (5x looks better on the iphone in landscape view!) You can change this via the dropdown in your user home screen. The pages read / maximum pages ratio of each document will change accordingly.

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Designtion is proud to announce our newest service, Designtion Mobile, making designtion available for mobile devices. Designtion now uses the WURFL repository as implemented by WALL 4 PHP, meaning that our home page will now detect over 22,000 devices and serve wml or xhtml data that’s compatible with your phone. To visit designtion mobile, simply go to designtion.com on your cell phone.

Most cell phones enable you to enter an address in manually. Try clicking on ‘web’ or ‘t-zones’ and clicking on your menu. From there you should be able to ‘enter address’. If your cellphone is not detected automatically, you can enter in the address http://designtion.com/?cell=true instead. Designtion recommends Opera Mini, a Java browser that you can download onto your phone that generally works better than the native browser on most phones. You can go to operamini.com on your cellphone to download it. Designtion Mobile is compatible with opera mini - if you want to see it in action in emulation on your computer, go to http://www.operamini.com/demo/, hit menu, enter address, and type in designtion.com.

Designtion currently offers two cell services - Designtion Trip Planner, which gives you on-the-go access to Chicago’s public transportation trip planner, and Designtion Cell PDF, a new service that allows you to convert PDFs to text you can read on your cell phone. The phone number link from our cell site also allows you to call us from your phone with a click of a button. Please give these new services a shot and tell us what you think!

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