As the New York Times notes, Apple has made mobile browsing more useable and raised it's standing in the amount of mobile traffic relative to the iPhones market share:

The data is striking because the iPhone, an Apple product, accounts for just 2 percent of smartphones worldwide, according to IDC, a market research firm. Phones powered by Symbian make up 63 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, while those powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile have 11 percent and those running the BlackBerry system have 10 percent.

The iPhone has taken the frustration out of browsing on a mobile phone, said Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Company.

But the iPhone won't be the only game in town for long when it comes to ease-of-use mobile browsing. The Google phones are marching to market. From USA Today:

A La Mobile installed its applications on a smartphone from HTC, the Qtek 9090. They include: a Google (GOOG) browser, phone dialer for making voice calls, audio player, Google maps, camera, games, calendar, contacts manager, calculator and notes. A La Mobile plans to pitch this prototype — a first for Android, according to Alker — to handset makers.

HTC is among 34 companies in Google's Open Handset Coalition, which aims to create a Linux-based wireless phone that makes it easy for consumers to use any application. A La Mobile, which isn't a coalition member, is one of many hoping to get a piece of the Android pie, says John Jackson of Yankee Group.

The best part of the this story isn't yet another handset with a standard suite of mobile applications but the way applications may quickly move to these platforms. FierceDeveloper pointed out last month Google's new tool for getting apps to mobile devices faster than traditional software development processes allow:

Grand Prix promises fast, simplified access to Google services like search, Gmail and calendars through a stripped-down mobile phone browser--at present, it's optimized solely for Apple's iPhone, but other browsers are in the works as well. Grand Prix's evolution was as speedy as its name suggests: A Google engineer putzing around on the weekend devised the prototype code and emailed it to mobile products head Vic Gundotra, who in turn showed it to CEO Eric Schmidt, who passed it on to co-founder/president of technology Sergey Brin. Google employees began testing Grand Prix on their iPhones, contributing feedback and suggesting tweaks, and a few weeks later, the software was officially released, without benefit of traditional product reviews or formal approval protocols.

News from the mobile realm may come faster and more intensely than expected this year.