I disagree about using subdomains for just about anything (think, it's a seperate domain, thus your content isn't credited towards your site through search engines); but a PDA template in itself would be great.
I think using a subdomain like
http://mobile.gangsterbb.net/ would be great for ease of use on such devices. The content would be taken from Threads anyway; it's just stripped down like printer-friendly. Don't even need/want duplicate content in the SE's...
And there could be a benefit to it: It may be considered one more "site" that links to your main site, boosting your SE attractiveness.
I still kind of miss printer friendly posts (from UBB.C) since it ripped all content that isnt' supposed to be printed out.
I don't recall being able to print out individual posts in .C, but both .C and .T have printer-friendly Topic options...