Useful Sites for Mobile Web

I remember a time where PDAs and smart phones were a sign of status- you were either a business man or a tech geek. Now smartphones and internet enabled phones are as ubiquitous as the air we breath (you like that?). As someone who spends a lot of time on the mobile web (or the web in general), I thought I’d provide a list of some mobile sites that I find useful.

• Google Mobile– Here Google has a list of all of the mobile versions of thier web apps, specifically for your phone. This includes GMail, Calendar, Docs, Tasks, Reader, Voice, and more.
• Mobile Wikipedia– I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been out, wanted to know something, and went to Wikipedia for the answer. This is an mobile web optimized version.
• Facebook Mobile– The important parts of Facebook at your fingertips. The best part: easy access to the Phonebook. Go to Friends->Phonebook for the numbers of all of your friends (who choose to list it).
• Twitter Mobile– There are TONS of mobile Twitter apps, but I find  that if I want to just read my timeline, the mobile web interface is best- lightweight, clean, and doesn’t kill my battery.
• Google Mobilizer– This is a site by Google that will take a URL for any site and make it mobile optimized by removing CSS, extra images and javascript.
• MLB.com– I love baseball. With MLB.com’s mobile version I can not only get scores for all the games, but get a live pitch-by-pitch right on my phone. If it wasn’t for Google, this would easily be my favorite mobile website.

A couple of good sites that I don’t use (honorable mention I suppose) are Digg’s and Delicious’ mobile websites. If you’re uncertain of whether or not a website you use has a mobile version, you could always use the Google Mobilizer to make it mobile, or try going to m.<app-url>. That’s what I did for most of these (hint: it also works for Flickr, Kottke, NBC, Fox News, and many more).

What’s you’re favorite mobile website and why? Leave it in the comments. And coming soon: a quicktip on making your WordPress website mobile.