Googler’s are now playing with some new designs of orkut. They have secretly developed two new versions of orkut, Mobile View & Low bandwidth view. Both the versions are built keeping in mind about bandwidth of the user. Mobile version has some bugs & thus Google has not yet officially launched it.

1. Mobile View - m.orkut.com:
Finally the orkut mobile version is here, but Google didn’t officially launched as it has some bugs in it. Mobile version allows you to check your scraps, view your friends profile, scrap to your friends, accept or reject a friend request, see updates, etc.

To open orkut mobile site simply visit m.orkut.com. Orkut Mobile View may be used as another way to bypass restrictions to orkut, but only if *.orkut.com has not been blocked by your provider.

It also has some keypad shortcuts that let you browse quickly like 3 for (F)riends, 7 for (S)crapbook, etc. however this may not work on every handset or every browser.

Credits for discovering Orkut Mobile are via labnol via Rahul, InsideOrkut and Haochi.

2. Low Bandwidth Mode:
This mode is like general orkut but the difference is it loads without images. Only your own image will load while browsing orkut. However when you open a scrapbook, instead of showing images of the scrap authors it shows an option to display image of the author of that scrap. If you click on it, the image will be fetched from the server using AJAX.

Also the birthday updates are shown in a calendar form. Well I don’t think that this feature can reduce bandwidth, instead if these updates in simple text form might have been useful.

To enable this mode follow the steps mentioned below:

• Login to your orkut account.
• Click on “Settings” in the left Column.
• Then under low bandwidth section, select the option “show the low bandwidth version of orkut”.
• Click on “Update”.
• Done!

This view is suitable for those who are using dial-up or who have limited bandwidth.

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