"John Navas" <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
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>>> And that iToy users are suckers, a target rich environment, for online
>>> ad
>>> placement and exploits. Enjoy your ethereal status, fanbois!
>>
>>It's hard to blame the "fanbois" for the hand they're dealt. They (at
>>least
>>in the US) get unlimited data and a phone that defaults to full size web
>>pages instead of mobile XHTML/WAP pages.
>
> Most reasonably current handsets actually reformat standard Web for the
> small screen.

Yes, if there's no mobile page of that particular site, and the
"reformatting" is often far less than successful on sites with frames, or
other funky formatting.

Websites with mobile versions typically serve up the mobile version based on
the handset's user agent, so the handset doesn't have to reformat anything.
Most smartphone browsers (Opera Mobile, Opera Mini, Netfront, Skyfire, IE
Mobile 6,) allow you to select whether the user agent will report the device
as a mobile device, or a desktop PC, which is important for websites with no
manual override. (YouTube, or the BBC, for example, let you toggle between
mobile and desktop versions by clicking a link on the site. Some sites
don't, and simply follow the UA.)