Today marks the debut of the next generation version of PhoneFavs. Version 2.0 of the mobile portal and bookmarking tool has been significantly updated to providing enhanced mobile functionality to smartphones and touch screen devices.

Some of the new features include our new mobile weather report, which automatically attempts to show you weather conditions in your area. PhoneFavs members can customize the weather to show a location of your choosing.

We’ve also given the site a new look with a focus on improving the experience on touchscreen based devices. You can now find larger text, links and buttons making finger navigation a breeze. Also checkout our new share feature. The Share function gives members a simply and easy way to create shortened URL’s and share your Favs with friends, all in a mobile friendly manner.

As always, feedback is welcomed at: info@phonefavs.com

The latest PhoneFavs update has added a few new convenient features for mobile surfers on the go.

Firstly, the URL structure has been simplified so that you can now access your personal Favs’ at:

http://phonefavs.com/username

Simply add your own username after the slash. This shorter (and easier to remember) URL makes directly accessing your Favs on your devices a breeze. Also the font for individual Favs has been embiggened with a larger clickable area for better finger browsability.

Some of the more recent PhoneFavs updates include some new functionality in the desktop browser toolbar buttons.

The Add a Fav form and the quick pop-over buttons now have the ability to remember your last privacy setting when saving links. If you prefer to select the private setting, it will remain selected the next time you go to save a link.

The browser buttons for your computer browser are the easiest way to save new bookmarks at PhoneFavs. They’re also great for quickly adding articles and content that you may want to revisit and read at a later time on your mobile device. We even have mobile bookmarklets that work with the iPhone, Opera Mini and a few other mobile browsers.

In addition, we have brought some optimizations online that should help the site run a bit quicker now.

-Ryan

Did you know you can add the PhoneFavs browser buttons to your mobile device?

Checkout the new Mobile Bookmarklets.

Quickly save to PhoneFavs on your phone. Many mobile browsers are supported including iPhone, Opera Mini, Palm Blazer, Mobile Internet Explorer and others.

PhoneFavs has been updated with a little facelift today and an added a mobile search feature on the homepage.

There are many more features in the works and your suggestions are always welcome.

PhoneFavs has just been added to the GetJar mobile app directory. You can head over there (mobile link) and download a PhoneFavs application icon for your BlackBerry, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile or Java powered device. The icon will show up in your application list and opens the default browser directly to PhoneFavs.

More details can be found here, or head over to the mobile friendly download page.

Just wanted to let everyone know that PhoneFavs now fully supports all international characters, that is, anything other than the standard roman alphabet. We always had, yet a small database misconfiguration (just recently corrected) was preventing extended characters from being saved and displayed properly.

What this means in plain English is that if you want to bookmark a Japanese page with a title and description in Japanese characters, these will be properly saved and correctly displayed on PhoneFavs. The same goes for any other language, German, Polish, Russian, Thai script and so on…

The PhoneFavs bookmark importer has been improved with support for creating tags out of your bookmark file’s folder hierarchy. Now when you import your bookmarks the current folder of the bookmarks will be automatically assigned as a tag for each bookmark.

The PhoneFavs bookmark importer is the easiest way to get your bookmarks online. Once imported your bookmarks are now accessible on any device via PhoneFavs and can easily be mobilized, searched and tag’d. The importer supports all major desktop browsers including Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Netscape. You can even import from del.icio.us as well.

Full instructions can be found here.