Review: Kuneri MobileJoomla, Mobile Phone Formatting for Joomla

Kuneri MobileJoomla provides instant conversion of your Joomla website for standard mobile phone platforms like iPhone,  Android, and BlackBerry.

If you have a website, you can no longer ignore smartphones and mobile devices–such as iPhone, iPad, or Android. Smartphone and mobile-devise web browsing is increasing rapidly and one day may become the dominant method for web browsing. Although smartphones such as iPhone and Android have real web browsers that can accurately display web pages, pages specifically formatted to diplay on a smartphone are easier to read and navigate.

MobileJoomla Features

• Just turn it on and it works
• Supports the following formats:
  • Smartphone (XHTML-MP/WAP2.0)
  • iPhone / iPod
  • WAP (WML)
  • iMode (CHTML)
• You can customize the template for each format
• You can add Modules to each format template. The module positions are Header, Middle, and Footer.
• You can redirect each format to a subdomain
• The user can choose to view the website in a mobile or standard format

Once you install Kuneri MobileJoomla, your Joomla website is instantly converted to smartphone formats. I was able to test this on the iPhone and a Blackberry Curve and both phones displayed the site in mobile format.

For example, below are four website images displayed on an iPhone. The first two images show the website displayed without any special formatting for the iPhone. The second two images show the website displayed with MobileJoomla’s special formatting for the iPhone. Although the first two images faithfully display the website as it was designed for browsers, the iPhone formatted pages are much easier to read and navigate.

writenowdesign.com Home Page without iPhone formatting

writenowdesign.com web page on iPhone without MobileJoomla formatting

writenowdesign.com Home page with MobileJoomla formatting

writenowdesign.com Services page with MobileJoomla formatting

Because I tested this extension only on the iPhone and Blackberry Curve, I can’t say that it works well on all four formats. However, I think your biggest concern with any website today is that it can display a special format for the modern mobile devices and phones, such as iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. This extension does that, and it’s free!