First UK Bus has launched a new mobile website designed to enable its customers access First bus information from smartphones. Full story here. Having just got a new smartphone I felt I had to take a look. My initial reaction? Very impressive! I’ve not had time to look further than the timetables section but that’s what led me to say ‘very impressive’. I always hated having to look up First Bus time tables on the old site using my PC, now with a screen a fraction of the size of my 22″ home screen it’s the easiest thing in the world to check times. If you’re using a smartphone, rather than presenting timetables as pdf files, the system is interactive requesting route number, when are you travelling, direction of travel, going to etc. That may sound as if it would take time entering it on a smartphone but everything is selected from drop downs so it’s a very quick and easy process. Times are then presented very simply showing the departure time from your selected stop and the arrival time at the selected destination.