You Want Collapsible Threads With Your Buzz?

Android 1.5 and 1.6 users now have a bonus.

As of the Valentine's Day weekend, they can now access Google Buzz's mobile site.

When Buzz first came out, only iPhone and Android 2.0 users were able to access it via their mobile browsers.  Unfortunately, that shut out over 70% of the Android user base.

Now, the previous two versions can also access the mobile Buzz experience and even those on full-sized computer browsers.  The https://m.google.com/app/buzz site allows unsupported browsers.  However, if you want to cut one part out of the process to make it a tad quicker, there's the force option which goes straight to Buzz without worrying if it's a supported browser or not.

However, I've found Firefox seems to have a small problem with this site, not showing all the interface and sometimes locking to the following/nearby screen.  On Chrome and Safari, the whole interface is running nicely.

There are a couple of other small drawbacks to the mobile Buzz experience.  In Gmail Buzz, you can click on a timestamp in any Buzz and get a permalink URL which can be added to a new Buzz and made part of a ReBuzz.  On the mobile Buzz, you can't do anything with timestamps.

One good thing about using the mobile Buzz site on your normal computer is that you can collapse threads.  Mobile Buzz also seems to be a bit faster than the Gmail version.

Google seems to be responding fairly quickly to the feedback from the early adopters after the first half week, so there's bound to be a few more improvements in coming days.

Anyway, I've made Mobile Buzz my main way of accessing Buzz, only going back to Gmail if I really need one of the features the mobile version doesn't have, like the timestamps URLs.

I'm buzzing along nicely.