10 Best Mobile Websites

These days, like many people, I'm spending more and more time reading via a mobile browser. I'm finding the experience, even on my small Nokia, to be in many cases superior to using a big screen. The small screen forces websites to economize and lose the fluff making for a more focused reading experience.

Here is a list of the sites I find myself using the most frequently:

1. Google News: extremely well designed site based on my own news preferences. If only the sites it linked to were so well thought out.
2. BBC News
3. Twitter: allows me to post my inane comments on the go. I realise there are some applications for the iPhone but I'm still using the website.
4. New York Times and NYT Weather: I searched in vain for a good free weather app. for my Nokia but find the NYT weather page to be as good as any I have seen (You may have to go to the weather page through the homepage first).
5. Wikipedia: I find myself using this more for browsing than searching. Invariably if I am looking for information I go to Google and Wikipedia is usually in one of the top 10 results.
6. Flickr: I use the Flickr app more but in the beginning this is all I had.
7. Yahoo games: for a quick diversion this is all I need.
8. Google reader and Google docs: a research tool and document viewer. When using my mobile I seem to stay fairly close to the Google ecosystem.
9. Amazon: I actually don't shop using my mobile but use it when I am browsing the bookstore.
10. Yahoo movies: I use Imdb at home but haven't discovered their mobile site yet (if it exists).

So there it is, a neat 10 item list of my current favourite mobile websites. I'm not much for lists but I plan to highlight some of the travel and productivity sites I have been playing with recently in the future.