Our friends at Mobile Learning recently recommended a new mobile version of Wikipedia. The Series 60 Weblog has compiled over 2000 full-length Wikipedia articles, including over 8500 color images, into a version of Wikipedia that can be read on Symbian s60 phones (essentially all recent-model Nokia phones as well as many Sony-Ericsson and a few other brands).

Wikipedia is (perhaps debatably) a terrific reference tool if you or your students happen to be at a computer with high-speed Internet access, but it’s quite a bit harder to use on the go. As the folks at mLearning suggest, it’s possible to look up Wikipedia using a mobile internet connection, but for many people, the mobile data charges this incurs can make this expensive (even if you’re using a mobile version like Wapedia).

Of course, there are certainly iPod-based, text-only versions of Wikipedia, but it would be far more useful and accessible to have Wikipedia on a mobile phone as it’s the one device most people never leave home without; and iPod books can’t display pictures.

To download Wikipedia for your phone and get all the details, visit the Series 60 Weblog.