If you've tried browsing the web on your phone, PDA, or other mobile device, you'll know that many sites just aren't readable on smaller screens. In fact, other than the small group of news, entertainment, and weather sites that your mobile phone provider's home page links to, you'll find that browsing the web with your mobile device can be a pointless exercise in frustration. But we've had a specially-formatted version of OSNews for over a year now, that many of our readers have enjoyed. If you haven't
seen it yet, check it out. There's no special URL. Just view osnews.com with your mobile device.
OSNews readers do tend to be on the leading edge, but with so many millions of people around the world now carrying internet-enabled mobile phones and other small network devices such as smartphones, handheld games, and PDAs, we think that more and more people are going to be using these devices to access their favorite sites, buy things, do online banking, and all the other activities we do online. And our experience has borne this out: every week, more people use mobile devices to access the site.
Take a look at some of your favorite sites using a mobile device. Take a look at your own site. How does it look? If it's like most sites, it probably looks like crap, and virtually unreadable. The sad truth is that modern web sites need to be specially-formatted for small screens.
We're happy to announce that the research and expertise that went into making and perfecting the mobile OSNews, Gnomefiles, and other sites, will now be available to the general public, through a new company called MoBits (check out the cool demo simulations on the site).
