This is not a problem for people who have high-end mobile phones (4 million iPhones means a decent number of you do). I’m not really big with phones (SGH-E250 doesn’t really put out), but I do like the convenience of mobile browsing. The E250 has a terrible MIDP 2.0 based browser. It has one font which looks like the Terminal font on Windows, and doesn’t handle CSS all that well (no floats). Hence, Geekaholic looks like a dump. I can’t imagine what heavy duty blogs like “Smashing Magazine” would look like.

Google to the rescue!

There are different ways of going about trying to fix your page, including this plug-in, but there is a reliable and un-failing method. Google has optimised all their pages to be seamlessly viewable in mobile phone browsers, no matter how bad they are. If you land up on their page using a phone browser, you are served a very stripped down version. In India where charges are based on amount of data transferred, that helps.

The basic functions of starring and marking items as unread are still there, but the page really is stripped down. The fact that Reader stores past entries also comes in use if you want to browse through the archives. You can’t comment or do much from the feed, because if you’re using this, it means your browser sucks. But it’s a nice and easy, cost-effective way. Hope you find it useful!