Nisadas

For about a year, my internet access was severely limited. Being far from the WiFi at home, I relied on my mobile phone for access. That sucked.

Using a Nokia 7260 as a GPRS modem wasn’t such a hot idea. Thanks to the Opera Turbo feature (then still in Alpha) helped a little, but it was even slower than dial-up. Surfing the net from the phone itself was a little pointless, especially since most blogs on Achcharu/Kottu aren’t very mobile friendly.

Well, amongst other things I upgraded to a newer phone and the Dialog Data package. It serves my purpose – quick checks on email, the blogosphere and updates on Cricinfo.

That said, it was a quite interesting to check out the latest Beta of Opera Mini. Having an iPhone-like theme, the browser is faster than the built in browser (due to caching/compression of the content through Opera’s servers) and makes it easier to view blogs off the phone.

However, it was a pleasant surprise to see Kottu on my phone. Since there’s no way I can think of showing you what it looks like on the phone, let me show you what Kottu looks like to Firefox masquerading as an iPhone 3.0 (thanks to the User Agent Switcher):

The result seems to a lot friendlier to mobile browsing, which is great for times when I’m just stuck with only my phone. Of course, since the blogs that are linked to aren’t running MobilePress, there’s not much change once you leave Kottu.

Sadly, it looks like MobilePress isn’t available as a plug-in for anyone on WordPress.com. Perhaps if there was more interest in mobile browsing, that would change.