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.

We’ve added a new Transit category to the PhoneFavs mobile web directory. The category currently contains about 20+ bus, train, subway transit mobile site for major cities around the world. Please help us build out the list, if you don’t see your city or transit service listed, please feel free to let us know via the suggest a link form and we will promptly add it.

We’ve just added a handy new url shortcut feature to quickly jump to your bookmarks from any device.

Hopefully you already know about our shortcut url pfavs.com Now you can simply add your username to the url and jump quickly to your mobile bookmarks. For example:

http://pfavs.com/username

Where username is your own PhoneFavs username. Of course, if you have some bookmarks set to private, you will need to be logged in to view them.

I’ve overhauled and fine tuned the mobile site directory on PhoneFavs. The mobile directory now shows 10 links per page for faster loading, has a new easier to remember url structure and new latest links added and most popular sites pages.

You can now follow PhoneFavs via Twitter.

We will be posting the latest blog posts, new features, updates, and new mobile sites on our Twitter feed along with any other random thoughts.

PhoneFavs will be at the CTIA mobile tradeshow in Vegas next week, so lookout for updates from there and drop us a line if you want to say hello at the show.

In partnership with Greystripe, PhoneFavs has launched a new mobile game section of the PhoneFavs mobile portal. games.phonefavs.com offers free mobile game downloads for hundreds of mobile handsets.

There are hundreds of games to choose from many leading mobile game developers. The titles are broken down into a number of categories including: Action, mobile pets, puzzle, Arcade Sports, Casino, One Thumb and many more. Leading titles include: Top Gun Air Combat, Arcade Park v1, Lego Bricks, Sonic, Solitaire, Speed Demons and Garfield Bowling.

The games are 100% free, but your service provider may charge for normal airtime and/or data usage. In exchange for the free downloads, the games display a very brief advertisement (which you can bypass) when it starts and exits.

Compatibility
The site attempts to auto detect your phone, if it does not you can choose the closest match from select phone list. The games are mostly standard Java J2ME apps, so if your phone supports java the games should work.

I spent some time fixing a few bugs and improving the mobilizer service. It’s now easy to access on its own domain at m.phonefavs.com I sorted out a few rss feed issues, and corrected some bugs. There is also a new easy to remember url feature so you can quickly and directly mobilize a site.

Simply type in the m.phonefavs.com/ domain and place the site url or name after the slash. For example:

http://m.phonefavs.com/digg.com
http://m.phonefavs.com/nytimes.com
http://m.phonefavs.com/feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch

Enjoy!