Hot on the heels of many Ellie-nominated magazines going mobile, Esquire recently launched its own mobile Web site, located at m.esquire.com.

"The jury is out on how people will use their phones," Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger said in an interview with min online. "Since the technology is available and we have certain aspects that can be truly useful or entertaining, it was a good move to move into mobile."

Meanwhile, min/min's b2b digital media editor Steve Smith found the site to be surprisingly entertaining: "One of the things that Esquire Mobile taps is our taste for browsing content on a handset," Smith said. "In its jokes database, style notes, and even its 70 Greatest Sentences (from Capote to Styron), the site parses the content down to bite-size chunks but also lets users drill endlessly into them. You keep getting pulled in for just one more quote, one more clever rule, one more obscure drink recipe."

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