Unfortunately, FoxRad.mobi is an iPhone only site.  Well that's not strictly so, every device that's not an iPhone gets redirected to a rather meh one page static affair with a couple of weather maps plus current and 7 day forecasts. The four images on that page are 640x480 affairs re-sized to 320x240 using CSS, which means the large un-resized images have to be downloaded to the phone and re-sized locally, wasting bandwidth, processor cycles and battery juice. The unnecessarily big images also make the page nearly 300kb in size, too large for most feature phones.

You can override FoxRad's browser detection and get the iPhone version on any phone by going to media2.myfoxhouston.com/foxradmobi/iphone. If one uses that unweildly and undocumented URL, all the features of the enhanced version work perfectly on an HTC Dream Android phone and with Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 on a Nokia N95-3.  The page also loads in the Nokia browser on the N95-3 and with Opera Mini, but none of the links work in those two browsers thanks to a dependency on some non-portable JavaScript.

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