Wireless users in the United States aren’t really using the their mobile devices to browse the Internet. At least not yet. A study conducted in April of 2006 found that 18 percent of wireless users had tried mobile Internet browsing and that 6 percent browsed the web from their mobile device regularly.

While the numbers are low, I think the emergence of the mobile Internet is inevitable. As phones get better and download speeds get faster, people will start surfing the Internet on their phones.

As a website developer, that means it is increasingly important to build websites that work on mobile browsers. Fortunately, if you are a WordPress user this isn’t much of a problem. We made a mobile version of The Bivings Report using a great plugin developed by Alex King.

To access our mobile version, simply type www.bivingsreport.com into your mobile browser. That’s pretty much it.

<Rant: All mobile websites should work this way, meaning they should auto-detect whether you are browsing from a mobile phone. Sites that have separate URLs for their mobile versions are missing the boat, in my opinion. Who is going to memorize a separate mobile URL?>

If you are a web developer working on a mobile version, you might try out this mobile phone emulator software from Openwave. It’s free and allows you to see what your site looks like on a mobile phone without having to look on a mobile device.

| Trackback URL |