The number of people worldwide investing in smartphones these days continues to rapidly increase.  While I have not done extensive research, from some quick online reading I’ve done, it seems the penetration in the US is at about 15 -20% (or about 12-15 million people)!   Yours truly in fact, just obtained my first smartphone this month, a Motorola Droid.

In light of this, as I’ve been playing around with my phone, I started to become curious – could I make the NCGenWeb site mobile phone compatible for the genealogists out there who may access us on their phones? Indeed, it turned out to be a very simple task!

Since this site is developed in WordPress, and WordPress has a large user community that provides plug-ins for all types of functionality, I quickly located the WPTouch plugin.  Within 5 minutes of finding it, I’d made the NCGenWeb site compatible for iphone and Android users.

If you have a smartphone, access the NCGenWeb page from it and you will find it redesigned to meet the dimensions of your phone.  The plug-in allowed me to set several options and on the smartphone display you can see the blog posts,  subscribe to the RSS feed, email the site to someone and more.  It is so cool!

If you would be willing – here is a 5 question survey to take;  I’m curious to know about people’s use of smartphones for accessing genealogy information.

If you’d like to learn more, you can view this 2 minute video clip I made: