Mobile Travel and Hostels - mobile phones, PDAs, etc.

Eye for Travel has an article about travel and mobile devices (e.g., cell phones).

Mobile travel represents the next major wave for travel applications and its influence will be enormous.

Waiting for mobile technologies that will impact the way that travel is sold, marketed and experienced has been a long process. Promised by pundits (often with vested interests) over the last few years, the critical point is always given as a tantalising 18 months away. It seems that mobile is in the travel press again, surrounded by phrases such as ‘tipping point’, ‘critical mass’ and ‘sky-rocketing revenues’. It is easy to be cynical.

However, if we look past the hyperbole of industry pundits, there are changes in the market place that indicate the critical mass has finally been reached. The following points indicate why:

Full article here.

What do people think about hostels and mobile devices? Are backpackers using mobile devices to search for hostels and will they want to browse your Web site on a mobile phone? Should hostels' Web sites should be accessible on mobile devices and show up in mobile search engines?

Or should hostels just let the booking engines sell beds through mobile devices? For example, Hostelworld has already built a mobile version of their site:
http://mobile.hostelworld.com/