CB on your mobile. (in Off-topic)

Never done it before but I'm looking to purchase a new mobile that will allow me to play CB on the move. There are many price plans on the market and I'm not sure what would be the best as I don't know what to expect as a "typical download" from CB.

I know some folks use their phones to play CB - what's the typical download to expect?
Would 10MB / month usage be in the ballpark for text based dls only?

I read somewhere that 10MB is roughly equivelant to 1,000 pages viewed but don't know if that's accurate or not?

Sorry, no idea about phones just wanted to say you get through more than enough BA anyway ;)

CB on your mobile....god, can you imagine the annual CB get together. Everyone sat in silence in some pub somewhere heads down while they burn BA.


1000 pages? Wouldn't that be the equivalent of about 6 sets of BA?

Of course I'm not coming at that from a techie point of view, simply that each play by play is a new page...

but if you're talking a page being a site, then if you only visit CB once a day I'm told you're only using .5 meg a month...that's from a techie IT bod sat next to me right now!

:D Downing pints while burning BA! :D

Let me set the record straight. I have broken my mobile so need a new one. G thinks because it is his birthday in 12 days that he should get the new phone. He also suggests getting one with internet access to play CB because I was having withdrawal symptoms during our holidays in the summer. I made him book a caravan site that I knew had internet access half way through the holiday but I was still jumpy. I need access during the day because at lunchtime the internet cafe I use is full of high school kids and I sometimes can't get on. I think we should have a poll to decide whether G should get the phone or myself.

Sorry, G, but you've got to keep Mrs happy. Them's the rules!

On the other hand...buy two!

1,000 pages would get us through the vast majority of downtime. I'm also assuming that's 1,000 complete text pages and that the CB fight screen, with the battle stats off, wouldn't quite qualify as a full text page so I'd get more.

Of course when we're on vacation and away from the PC (/me shudders at the thought of time away) then we couldn't use it 24/7, but at least whacky time wouldn't be missed.

I say "we" because it's actually wifey's phone that needs replaced. I may just try and claim it for myself though if I can get away with it. :)

OK, so it took me 10 mins to post my last thread and I didn't see the previous one from Mrs B. We're not having a poll - I know how that would work out!

2 sounds like a good idea Johnny but that has already been booted into touch via CM an hour ago... lol.

Don't you just love the internet age - soon we won't have to talk to each other at all, now if I could just get my kids playing... lol

CM to daughter: time for bed, and clear up your room :)


Anyway, back on topic: What would I expect a typical usage to be. I think Ranger uses his mobile to play a lot, anyone else??

What does the mobile phone need in order to play CB?

G, That's the way the world is going...

News atm is the Education department wants to start phasing out coursework from subjects (starting with mathematics...) as it's too easy to cheat (go get all the info you need from the internet) and coursework is starting to mean nothing...

That's already agreed in Scotland. Don't worry, England will catch up eventually... ;)

T-Mobile has an unlimited Internet plan for £7.50 per month (on top of the regular plan). Dunno the details (except that it's about 50% more expensive than for Dutch users ;), but with this you at least won't have to worry about any limits ;)

I used my nokia 9300 for playing CB a year ago.Here in Bulgaria the GPRS connection isnt so good but i was loading the pages as fast as 4-5 seconds.As far as i can remember my GPRS transfer didnt reached more than 20-25-30MB.I have also played CB from other phone but i can not remember it at the moment.

I think the essentials do work with a Treo. Ranger would probably know about that.

Other phones might work, but try it out before buying it: CB is fairly picky, and debugging javascript for a phone I don't own makes me grumpy. :)

And get something without per-MB fees if possible. CB is very lightweight with play-by-play off, but still, that's so barbaric!

Sony Ericsson K800i will be the phone of choice but unfortunately there don't appear to be many options regarding providers and avoiding a monthly usage allowance. I just need to figure out what would be the most suitable package both from a cost and usage perspective. A trip to the high street will sort me out with all the details but it's always better to at least know a little so that I'm not totally conned by the sales folks.
I like the Sony for a whole host of reasons and not just internet access (CB works fine, at least on sign-up page and browsing forums from the little time I had to check). Built in 3.2MP camera with flash is nice and the images are best in class from a mobile phone this side of Japan. FM radio is kinda cool too and means I can keep up with the football match whilst on the golf course :)

Come to think of it I'll prolly use the phone for pretty much everything_except_phone calls.

I have a Nokia 7710. It comes with an Opera browser, like most Symbian/Nokia phones. I tried playing CB on it a few times, but only on very slow networks. It did work, but unfortunately its hand writing recognition (it's a phone with a touch screen, operated with a stylus) wasn't good enough to be able to just draw over the botchecks ;)

I'm still mad at T-Mobile for not listing this model on their list of allowed phones for their unlimited Web-n-walk service :(

Oh, that's a good point!
I don't know what a bot check looks like. I'll need to check that out before purchasing.

The Sidekick definitely can't do it, doesn't have enough RAM to handle all the Javascript.

Purchased the Ericsson K800i based on a quick look at CB from a colleagues phone. My mistake was only viewing the front page, wiki and forum boards and not the actual home page whilst logged in.

Problem I have is that the front page starts to load the minion detail on the right side of the browser as normal (on my pc for example) but when it tries to load the CB sidebar I get a blank page only on the phone. Nothing I do can make the blank page go away.
Looks like this phone doesn't work well with the CB interface. :( and it's back to the shop we go for a 14 day money back refund unless anyone can give me advice on how to set this up.

I'm still going to try and get another phone that I can use if I can't get this one to work...

Yup, it's 100% the problem with the sidebar that's causing the site to fail on the phone.

If I navigate to http://www.carnageblender.com/opponents-favorites.tcl and click the fight link from there (which effectively disables the sidebar) then all is well. I have to use the back button before selecting another person to fight, but at least I can do it. Not really a sustainable option though and means I'm visiting twice as many pages as I should need to.

Now, Jon you said it made you "grumpy" to debug problems for a phone you don't own. Just how "grumpy" does it make you and if I said you were looking great today and all your posts have made me smile would it help you solve my problem..? ;)

Seriously - is there a way around this for me, or does anyone know a more effective way of disabling the sidebar?

the sidebar has the most js of anything in the system, it would be horrible to try to figure out what was breaking your phone (probably multiple things)

a more feasible option might be to have some kind of minimal page designed for phone users that just has a fight list

When using the phone for CB all I'm interested in (and I suspect I'm not alone) is feeding my BA burn addiction.

A simple fight page would be the perfect solution not to mention another carrot to dangle in front of the new and existing users. I'd love it!

Of course, buying BA is impossible without the sidebar. :(

Unless someone knows different...?

Just add the link to the new fight page, and instead of opening in cbmain, open in that page?

G Beee, buying BA is possible without the sidebar. I helped Mikel with the exact problem in this thread. Check out my response half-way through.

I use the Cingular 8125.

Excellent web browsing. Frames capability. Bluetooth and wifi enabled.

And SNK is correct in the link you can use to buy BA since the "get more BA" link does not work on most mobiles.

Verifex was the first person to tell that link to me, so kudos should go to him as well.

That's great and works fine SNK, thanks.

So my only problem now is the fact that I have to hit "back" after every fight before I can fight my next opponent.

All in all I have a rather cumbersome but effective workaround to all of the issues I've raised. Cool, thanks for the help folks:)

If the phone supports iframes, you could perhaps make something like opponent1.html through opponentX.html where each page has a short menu on top linking to all the other pages, and beneath it an iframe including the fight page?
No (extra) javascript is needed, and you even can add extra links like the buy BA one and layout it anyhow you like.

/me (in japanese style voice) says "Hello BCMoto".

I couldn't help it :P

Do you guys who use mobile phones, want chat on your phone? Or.. uhh is that even possible?

I wouldn't use CB chat on my phone.