Designing for the mobile web is slowly becoming mainstream. One of the most difficult aspects of designing for the mobile web is site compatibility across various devices. Some sites may render perfectly on Blackberry or Symbian handsets, while rendering distorted on iPhone or Android devices. Below are a few tips and tricks to add compatibility for various devices and for testing, shared by Mashable.com. 1. Rather than trying to support every platform, choose a platform… Read more »

The Pew Research Center, along with American Life Project conducted a survey, which sought to evaluate the mobile Internet use of Americans. It was found that 6 out of 10 American adults go online either wirelessly via their laptop connection or by using their Smartphones. The survey disclosed that 40% of Americans adults use the Internet, email or instant messaging on a mobile device, while nearly half of all adults or 47% go online with… Read more »

Via TechCrunch: If you’ve got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you’ll probably want to check out YouTube’s new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com. It’s a major upgrade from the old mobile web app, with a more polished UI and better load times. It also uses plenty of HTML5 features, including the video tag. But most important is the fact that the web app has superior video… Read more »

Very interesting article by guest author Steve Cheney at TechCrunch this weekend about the rate of innovation and new features in Mobile Devices vs PCs: Rapid advancement in mobile is often attributed to the natural disruption by which emerging industries innovate quickly, while established markets like PCs follow a slower, more sustained trajectory. But there are deeper fundamentals driving the breathtaking pace of smartphone advancement. Component vendors supplying to smartphone OEMs have evolved a much… Read more »