I just noticed a funny contradiction in current web trends. Whilst the much trumpeted ‘Web2.0′ approach is all about ditching locally-installed applications and doing everything via your browser, the cool stuff on mobiles generally assumes the opposite and demands you install. Even for something as trivial as news headlines.
This seems a little perverse given the staggering range of mobiles in circulation. Admittedly, it might be fiddly to get rounded corners in a mobile browser but in terms of reach and accessibility there has to be no contest. I guess the minority have better phones and more patience than the majority.
Having said that, I think there is a deep niche waiting to be carved out by having your phone display periodically updated information in standby mode; News, sports, etc. But that requires hard mobile OS hacking or more extensible mobiles. Still dreamin’.