Mozilla has announced that an alpha version of its much-touted Firefox Mobile Web browser will be launched in a few weeks’ time.

Coming after the first imminent launch of the first Google Android phone and its mobile version of Google Chrome, together with the iPhone’s Safari browser, Pocket IE, Opera Mobile and Nokia’s use of the WebKit browser, the mobile Web is looking set to positively explode.

Indeed, it seems there are more mobile browsers than desktop-based ones!

This is fantastic news for the mobile Web, which should finally provide an experience similar to the desktop equivalent we’ve all grown used to.

Having used the mobile Web for the past year with my Nokia E90 and loved every minute of it, I think it’s something the vast majority of users will become increasingly accustomed to.

In fact, I’ve become so used to having 24/7 Web access that it’s almost like not having access to electricity whenever it’s not instantly to hand. I’m not suggesting that everyone else will feel this way (I may be a little more geekier than other people, dare I say it?!), but the Web itself used to be the sole domain of the geek, and look how that’s become an inseparable part of our lives.

So what will Firefox Mobile add to the mobile Web that isn’t already provided by the other mobile browsers? Portability for one. Of the mobile browsers listed above, only Opera Mobile isn’t tied to a specific platform.

“We want to make sure that the Web on mobile is more like the Web than what the mobile industry offers today, which is closed, separate networks and not a very good information-getting experience for the user,” said Mozilla CEO John Lilly. “The first thing is to bring Firefox to mobile devices. We’re working on that, and we’ll see some alphas in a few weeks.”

Mobile Web 2.0, here we come!

[Source: LinuxInsider via Slashphone]