Do You Want to Read Websites on Mobile Phones ? Start with Google

To read websites an blogs on mobile phones, you have two options: (1) write to the website owner asking him to create a mobile friendly version of his site or (2) do something yourself.

Since the first option sounds a bit impractical, let’s consider the second one and look at some free Google services that make Internet experience on mobile devices a pleasure:

Since the first option sounds a bit impractical, let’s consider the second one and look at some free Google services that make Internet experience on mobile devices a pleasure:

Websites: For viewing regular web pages, visit google.com/gwt/n from your mobile phone, type the site’s address and hit Go.

This Google Transcoder service reformats the layout of websites and also splits large web pages into multiple parts so navigation becomes very easy.

And if are on a slow connection or pay for every byte of data that you download, just turn off the Show Images option so web pages will load faster and you also play less charges to the service provider.

Internet Search: For web search on mobile phones, open google.com/xhtml and turn on the "Format web pages for your phone" option available under Settings.

Thus all website links that appear in Google search results are automatically reformatted to fit on your tiny mobile screen.

Blogs and RSS Feeds: If you like to follow your favorite blogs on mobile phones, open google.com/gwt/n and type the URL of any blog.

Next click the link near that orange XML icon and the blog will automatically open inside Google Reader - the display is highly optimized for mobile phones and you can also use keyboard shortcuts.