I just couldn't wait for tomorrow to give your this excellent piece of information courtesy of @silentjon on Twitter. He advised me of a way to get your Browser app to behave as if it was a desktop browser and ensure that you only see the "normal" version of the website.
Its all to do with something called a User Agent or UAgent. This is what tells the website what kind of device or browser you are using. The problem with the Honeycomb Browser app is that its UAgent is Android and most websites think that means mobile, although Google has started to try and differentiate by using Android Mobile for the phone browsers. This unfortunately hasn't caught on and this means you still get the mobile version of a website. The following instructions tell you how to modify the Browser's UAgent to eliminate this problem.
1. Open the Android Honeycomb browser on your tablet.2. In the address bar, type: about:debug and press enter.3. Now open the browser's settings by tapping the icon in the very top-right corner of your screen (it looks like four horizontal lines) and selecting "Settings" from the drop-down menu that appears.4. On the left side of the screen, tap the section labeled "Debug."5. On the right side of the screen, tap the item labeled "UAString," then select "Desktop."6. In the browser's address bar, type: about:debug once more; this will disable debugging mode and return the browser to its normal state.7. Press the back button (in the very bottom-left corner of your screen) to exit the browser's settings.
These instructions come courtesy of JR Raphael's blog over at Computer World.
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