TinyTraffic Screen Shots

TinyTraffic runs on a wide variety of systems. Because it does both WAP (WML) and HTML, any "internet-enabled" phone can support it. Even the weak crippled S-E T610!

Of course your best bet is to try it yourself, which you're free to do. This page of the site is dedicated to showing what TinyTraffic looks like, and what some of the competition looks like. These aren't on the previous page so that low-bandwidth users can avoid the graphics.

The Shots - Siemens S56

The Siemens S56 is a very small phone with a small screen, but fully internet-capable. This shot is from an early TinyTraffic site, in HTML.

This phone is using Cingular, who has pretty good customer service, better-than-average signal coverage, and incredibly unhelpful technical support. (I suspect they just aren't as technical as would be helpful for some of this stuff.) If you are completely savvy with what a CID is and how you use it for connecting to the internet, you may be able to use their service as a modem for your PDA. But for non-PDA use, and if you don't care that they lose the "My Wireless Window" accounts with amazing frequency, they're great. Really.

Siemens shot

Sony Clie UX-50

The Sony Clie UX-50 is (was) a Palm-compatible handheld with IrDA, Bluetooth and WiFi. In the car, it communicates quite well via Bluetooth through the S-E T610 to the internet.

It's hard to tell from the lack of surroundings, but this PDA is tiny; about 4.25 inches by 3.25 inches by about 0.7 inches thick when closed. It's exceptionally convenient for checking email with on-the-run, or this traffic website, or also for using to send/receive SMS messages through the bluetooth-enabled cell phone.

This is a photo of the UX-50 in action: Photo of the UX50

And these are screen-shots of TinyTraffic, taken with ZGrab:
Shot of map    Shot of status

Sony-Ericssen T610

And finally, the S-E T610 itself. This beastie has a different-shape screen and is also only WML-compatible, not HTML. So the layout is different. Note that the map is oriented to match the screen and is scrollable.
T610   T610   T610

TrafficGauge

I'm not a fan of TrafficGauge. Not only did it come to the scene after TinyTraffic, but it's inferior in every important respect:

  • It requires a special device
  • It costs money
  • It's not color
  • It's very low resolution
  • It doesn't give the DOT status reports
  • It covers less area.

With all that, what's to like?

TrafficGauge Device

Currently (as of October 2004), eight possible modes are supported in TinyTraffic. More may come along eventually; they're easy enough to add. But these should cover most likely needs.

Simply select the size (row) and the format (column), and copy the link-address or follow it and set the bookmark.
HTMLWML
Tiny Tiny
T610 T610
Mid Mid
LargeLarge
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