Does Google get the mobile web experience better than the competition?

With wireless phones becoming globally more used than personal computers, how are the web's leading internet players dealing with adding their services to the phone screens of the billions of wireless users in the world? There are literally hundreds of millions more phones in use in the world today than computers -- and in the pacific rim area, mobile phones are probably used more than PCs to access internet content, seeing as though wireless networks are faster and much more advanced than they are here in the U.S.

With this incredible market opportunity, who is leading the pack? Google, Inc.'s CEO, Eric Schmidt, has repeated said in investor meetings and press releases that Google continues to concentrate on mobile offering as a priority area. The sheer amount of mobile devices (phones) should make any CEO of any internet service or product attentive to the burgeoning marketplace of mobile internet access and content.

With Google having a pretty large offering of almost universally-accessible mobile content, it seems to be taking the lead -- although competitor Yahoo! is not standing still and has an equally-beefy mobile content offering, albeit more device-constrained than Google. Google's mobile strategy appears to follow its corporate mantra: Make the content easy to use, navigate and universally accessible. That means Google Maps, Google News, Google Gmail, Google.com and even the Google Personalized Homepage are accessible from any recent mobile phone -- on any global wireless network -- with the standard xTHML miniature web browser.