Alright, call me old fashioned, behind the times, or whatever you like. I recently upgraded to a smartphone, an iPhone 4. It's nice, I love being able to carry my music collection with me wherever I go, check weather on the go and all that other great stuff they're handy for. The one thing I don't appreciate is the limited usability of the forum on the browser. I was busy the entire weekend, but was checking in regularly on my phone. I had several people attempt to IM me, apparently seeing me as online in the status bar at the bottom. However, there's nothing that tells me anything about the IM's on the phone, PM's yes, but not the IM's. At the bottom of the screen on the phone is a button that says "Get the free IP.Board App for iPhone now!" that takes me to the Appstore and shows me the IP.Board app, but it's NOT free they want $1.99 and with the 1.5 star rating and complaints against it I don't think I'm going to buy it anytime soon. I have seen the Tapatalk app talked about, but again there's no sense to me to spend the money on any app if it can't get more of the functionality of the forum than what the browser can.

I know there's plenty of you guys who've been using the forum on a mobile device for some time now. Any suggestions?

honestly I just use the full site the mobile skin on here is garbage.

I actually don't mind the mobile skin too much. I can still access the "most recent" topics list which helps me keep up with the forum, but even when viewing the full site on the phone the status bar at the bottom of the screen with the list of online friends, IMing, and all that isn't there.

I use the standard mobile skin and just get back to the IM's when I am on my machine.

I have a iPhone 4 as well. I use the mobile skin. It took awhile to get used to.

The mobile skin is awesome on my iphone ! I love it ! It loads fast.

It's way better than when I had Blackberrys. Maybe it's another skin too

I don't use IM here, so it's not a problem for me. Sorry.

Best way is tethered to a tablet with a real screen.

More seriously, I like the full site shrunk better for the phone except where the connection is uber slow.

Yep, I like the speed of the mobile skin as well. I just wish there was the support for IMing is all.