Bloody marvellous! I got a text message from my network provider yesterday informing me of free 'net access on my mobile for the month of November. It had never even occurred to me to use the service before. Anyhoo, first thing I did with this new found financial freedom was to try and read 'TheReg" and it was an awful experience. This couldn't have happened at a better time!

That loads so much quicker on my G1 than the normal version. Now I can slack at work much quicker :)

Cheers you guys, you don't half spoil us....

Obviously you should have a choir of angels singing in the background.

I noticed the mobile site had been updated last week, and it's definetly an improvement, but why do we have to go back to the full site to see comments? It would be very easy to implement a mobile page for viewing comments at least.

This is excellent news.

All you have to do now is make the reader comments section mobile-friendly too :o)

I use your RSS feeds on my Android device - it works well.

In the feed, the links to the full articles point to the full Reg site. What about mobile versions of the feeds that point to the spanking new mobile site? Or a separate link in the feed to take you to the mobile version of the full article?

Damn annoying when you want El Reg Gordo but you keep getting microReg forced down your throat (take note Times and Indy)

Excellent.. and nice to have a separate URL rather than messing about with stylesheets and device detection which often goes horribly wrong.

I also have a site with "mobile" in the name. I do get some very strange emails from Alabama sometimes too..

PLEASE if you do this give us the opportunity to choose whether to go to the mobile site or not, and an easy way back if we change our minds.

Nothing annoys me more than being forced to a crappy "mobile" version of a site automatically and having to go through a hundred hoops (if I can) to get back to the proper version.

Forcing me to use your mobile version would be just about the only thing that would stop me reading El Reg.

I hate using mobile sites on my phone, I'd much rather use the full fat version. The BBC is awful at this - once it detects you're using a phone it's almost impossible to get back and STAY back on the real site.

Plus, I use the register for benchmarking the browser I work on so please don't force it over to the mobile site.

I noticed that the Hardware reviews missed out the rating panel, recently moved to the front of the review, which also tells you the price (meaning that I read a review of an £1800 telly that I'd normally have skipped!).

It's also the case that changing the orientation of my iPhone 3GS led to minor alignment problems.

Otherwise, natty.

How about making the iPhone version cache web pages so we can read The Reg on the tube?

...keep asking for cut down iPhone versions of sites when they have good access to full sites via the gesture version of Safari?

(Same goes for any other device using Opera Mini.)

Couple of small changes I might make though. One is to have the date and time of each story and to have them in strictly date order so you know which is the most recent. Another, if there's room, is to include the category so you know if you're about to read the latest about El Reg's mascot or a very dry story about a hardware company's financial results.

...is a bad idea ;)

your new mobile site is excellent however and I like it, will probably use it from now on on my HTC magic, although i've had no problems with the full fat version on my phone i prefer the mobile site as it stops me zooming all over the place...

once again...don't do the browser sniffing...it annoys the crap out of me...(how difficult is it to put an m. in the address bar anyways)

good work :)

"You're users are intelligent"

Ahem.

Big thumbs up.

Add me to the requests for the comments pages! Not neccessarily to add comments but to read them.

Although Gordo Reg (love it!) does work well on the new Opera Mobile 10.

from me too.

easy on the eyes, relatively easy on the bandwidth.

I think it needs a navigation link to a gallery of playmobil scenes

Top banana.

But don't bother checking for mobiles on the server - give us the choice. Getting information out of the Beeb has become jolly difficult since they ram their coloured WAPness down the throat of my throbbing 800x480 mobile.

Kick ass.

That is all.

Nokia 5800, no probs, nice and quick. Well, quick anyway...

Thanks for making moves to improve the Reg mobile experience. Two suggestions to improve the mobile site though:

Firstly, please add separate RSS feeds for all the mobile versions of the sites. I use an Android RSS app on my G1 called Newsrob (which syncs to Google Reader) that can display the pages within the app. I'd love to be able to get to the mobile content via this method.

Secondly, on the mobile pages please also add a link on each story to a mobile version of the comments. After getting the mobile page loading quickly, it's rather tedious then having to navigate through the main version of the site to get to the comments. Totally defeats the object of going to the mobile version in the first place!

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

As the 'free wisdom' offered in comments often contains as much insight as the original article, they're an integral part of the 'El Reg' experience, and as such really need to be supported in the 'slim' version.

It doesn't need to be anything sophisticated, just a simple https form to add a comment, and the comments themselves linked from the bottom of the article as in the 'full-fat' version... they need no additional formatting whatever.

I really welcome the idea of the low bandwidth version - not all of us are physically able to use the latest and greatest (?) touchscreen marvels when we're out and about, so it's an important step forwards in accessibility terms too.

I, for one, welcome our El Reg Technical Overlord.....