The popularity of the iPhone caught some big internet news portals and high traffic sites with the pants down, nobody really thought that Apple will take over the mobile market, neither that Apple iPhone will be the one that really makes the standard in mobile web browsing.

Some good websites for corporations, news outlets and celebrities portals that were offering mobile version of their sites were obligated to rethinks their mobile strategies, some like Dvice, that has seen an ultra high traffic from the iPhone (more than 70%) has decided to create an iPhone version of their famous website, separating their iphone traffic from their mobile version, others keep offering the same mobile version for all devices and that where the iPhone problem starts. Dvice provides a regular, a mobile and an iphone version of their site.

Those sites hasn’t realised that the iPhone DOES NOT NEED the same mobile version of their site, by the way, the iPhone DOES NOT NEED any special website design, Safari can access any given website and the technology inside the iPhone helps to make this and that particular website viewable on the screen.

Go to CNN.com, it directs you to the mobile version m.cnn.com, a chopped version of their website, but CNN problem is that there is not way to go to the full non mobile version and if you try and try it keeps directing you to the mobile one.

Go to ABC.com and the same, it directs you to a iPhone version and if you navigate to the bottom of the page and clikc the “Go to regular site”, nothing happens, it returns to the iPhone version.

Go to NBC and the same, not regular site for iPhone users.

Disney offers a iPhone based website and while Disney doesn’t offer a “Go to Regular Site” link, the version of their site really looks like an iPhone application.

The majority of those mobile sites were done to meet regular mobile phones and now that the iPhone is the king there is still a lot of them that haven’t been updated or simply removed the redirect.

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