A snapshot of the mobile web

One of the nice side effects of crawling the mobile web for find.mobi is that we have a good idea of exactly what is out there. One thing that find.mobi does which is a bit different to the other mobile search engines out there is that it captures screenshots of mobile web pages as it crawls. As an experiment (with a tip of the hat to Russell Beattie's annual phone model images 2008 2005 2004) I pulled a selection of find.mobi's thumbnails and assembled them into a contact sheet. Preview below, higher resolution versions in page attachments. Obviously this is not a comprehensive list but it may be useful nonetheless.

It is encouraging to see that a lot of these sites have moved far beyond the realm of plain text - people are now really beginning to exploit the capabilities of the phone browsers (a SonyEricsson K750i in this case).

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