.mobi has been introduced as the defacto for mobile websites, and though it's pretty intuitive, (mobi->mobile), imagine typing it on your phone. M and O are on the same key, so you would have to type:
6
wait about 5 seconds
6
6
6
2
2
4
4
4
What a pain...
The Nerd community, like me, knows that web content for phones has clasically been refered to as "WAP pages", WAP being Wireless Application Protocol, and though I'm not a huge fan of the term, it's always been particulary convinient, because W-A-P is not only on 3 different keys on a phone, but each letter is the first letter for it's key, so instead of the above key sequence a .wap extension would be entered with the following:
9
2
7
That saves 7 key strokes, and a ton of time... I'm not going to talk to much smack, but it seems like there was not nearly enough thought on this one. I suppose one day WAP browsers will assume that the extension is .mobi if no other extension is specified, so it won't matter anyway, but for all of us with old phones, it will always be a pain. Such is life I suppose.
