Mobile Web Browsing - More Features

I'm sure you have seen ads or TV shows where a flight gets stranded due to weather, and there is just one room left at the hotel, and everyone rushes to go get it. There is always someone with a smart phone that orders it online and gets it while everyone that ran there is out.

This isn't just for TV anymore; you can do it now. By simply going to mobile.orbitz.com, you can check out flights and even buy a hotel room wherever you are, just as you would on their main site. Living in Cleveland, this happens more often than you'd think.

Got some time to kill before you are needed somewhere and want to rock to some tunes? If you have an XM or Sirius radio, you can get the live feed from any channel on your phone. Simply Googling XM or Sirius radio smart phone will lead you to links to how to get the radio onto your smart phone.

This final set features sites you may have as your typical home pages on your desktop, and would like to use on your mobile phone. Sites such as MSN, Yahoo, and Google have very detailed mobile sites. You can check your email though them, see the weather, the breaking stories and much more. MSN's site has nearly everything you have on your desktop; the layout is more mobile friendly, however. Sure, you'll need more clicks to get to the same information, but you still can get there. I use one of these sites as my home page; I can quickly find pretty much all I need to know in one place.

Conclusion

Many people are opting to go with smart phones now that they are small and cheap. This means they are looking for places to browse on their mobile devices. When you go to any website, you may experience a few different outcomes. The first is that it will load the default web page, which may or may not render completely and correctly. If it's usable, great; if not, try to find the mobile version if there is one.

I would suggest checking to see if the forms of URL address I gave you earlier work; most of the time, if the site has a mobile-friendly version, it's at one of those addresses. Some sites will pick up that you're using a mobile browser and automatically push you the mobile-friendly version, which is the best case scenario; it requires no additional input by you to get to the pages you want. I wish you good luck and smooth mobile surfing.