Once upon a time one could only view a website using a computer screen, and the few mobile phones that existed were used for making voice calls. Then gradually, mobile phones were able to display websites and web designers slowly adapted, sometimes creating a second website version for mobile.
The growth of the internet has resulted in many more devices displaying web pages and designers are not able to create website versions for all these devices. There would be a website for dumb phones, smart phones, tablets, small computers, big screen computers, TVs, etc. The solution is one website that automagically fits to display well on any device.
The heading was meant to be 'budget smart phones', but on this side of the world 'budget' cannot be used together with iPhone, Blackberry or Windows Mobile. Symbian, which Nokia smart phones use is on its death bed soon to be replace by Windows Mobile - Nokia is dead, long live Nokia. For this article, lets just say Samsung's Bada isn't quite up for the race yet.
That leaves us with Android (hence the title). What's even better is there are many inexpensive options one can work around.
So your website is up and running but not bringing in as much business as you had hoped. You are already thinking of doing some redesigns not long after spending time and money on the website. Before you tear down anything, here are some simple steps that could slowly build traffic into your website and generate some of that response that you are hoping for.
For starters, you need to envision your website as a branch of your business. This branch can be as simple or elaborate as you choose for it to be.
If there was a simple and patriotic answer, I would strongly recommend local hosting. That would be like asking if I preferred that production of all goods (and services) be done locally.
Lets take a scenerio where all hosting is done locally. Aside from the heavy Facebook activity, a lot of internet traffic would be local and we (read ISPs) would not be dependant on expensive international traffic. The result we'd expect is reduced cost on internet connections. Some ISPs would even dare to offer free connections on local traffic and charge you only for international traffic. Great stuff, right?