Originally Posted by rowan

I'm curious about the value of them too. Why is there a need for a separate TLD specifically for mobile sites (aside from speculation and greed, of course) when it's fairly easy to detect a mobile by the user-agent, or just set up m.alreadyexistingdomain.com

My pet hate is sites that redirect to a basic "minimal formatting" mobile version when my phone has an 800px wide screen, with javascript, flash, CSS etc. It can display most sites just fine.