Comments on: Mobile Web is 19% of PC Web

By: Best of May/June 2007 at Design Resources

Best of May/June 2007 at Design Resources — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:18:33 +0000

[...] detailed information about web-development for mobile devices and web-design for ‚Äúmini-format‚Äù. Useful to know: in United State 19% of mobile users use Mobile Web, in UK – [...]

By: shyam

shyam — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:30:03 +0000

Well argued..from our experience in shyam radio, an online tamil internet radio, I would like to quote further..India expecially needs mobile web..but the content should be local..already some of our listners have mailed us that they hear shyam radio through their gprs enabled windows mobile..gprs cost is already minimum as far as bsnl is concerned..upfront is nil..can you believe? usage depends..but more unlimited cost structure will bridge the digital divide.
Dr.SHYAM

By: Best of May/June 2007 | Webdesign (css, grafica e altro)

Best of May/June 2007 | Webdesign (css, grafica e altro) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:13:34 +0000

[...] information about web-development for mobile devices and web-design for “mini-format”. Useful to know: in United State 19% of mobile users use Mobile Web, in UK – [...]

By: Best of May/June 2007 · Style Grind

Best of May/June 2007 · Style Grind — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:44:02 +0000

[...] detailed information about web-development for mobile devices and web-design for ‚Äúmini-format‚Äù. Useful to know: in United State 19% of mobile users use Mobile Web, in UK – [...]

By: 17% of US Web Use is Mobile at Matt MacQueen

17% of US Web Use is Mobile at Matt MacQueen — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:45:31 +0000

[...] http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/14/mobile-web-is-19-of-pc-web/ [...]

By: Kai

Kai — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:10:16 +0000

Now we just need a good, free, open-source mobile web browser. Think Mozilla is up for the challenge?

By: eBookit Linknotes » Mobile Web is 19% of PC Web

eBookit Linknotes » Mobile Web is 19% of PC Web — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:07:24 +0000

[...] (…)5.7 million people in the UK use the mobile web, as opposed to 30 million who access the web by PC. This means that the mobile web is already nearly one fifth the size of the PC web. [MobHappy] Share This Close [...]

By: Harsh Dhundia

Harsh Dhundia — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:46:31 +0000

Russell,

That’s an interesting discussion and the way I see it – Dean and you are talking about the realities of two different worlds. Having founded a startup two years ago based on mobile social networking picking up and having worked on the enterprise side of things, I’ve seen both the worlds.

Personally, I believe that consumers will be quicker and more likely to adopt mobile web primarily because enterprises are usually slow in adoption of disruptive technologies. There’s another reason, technology wise we’re ready for consumer applications for mobile web, though the UI still sucks for most – but I just don’t see the power, the security, the speed and the robustness in mobile web yet for enterprise applications.

Before we go on forecasting the mobile web dwarfing the PC web, I believe a more careful look at the statistics is required. How much time did people spend on the mobile web, what kinds of things did they do etc.

Also, I still think that more data will be downloaded over Wi-Fi networks than cellular as carriers start offering FMC – so the mobile web and PC web are pretty much going to converge anyway…

By: Russell Buckley

Russell Buckley — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:10:13 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone.

I like “Pocket and Dock it” as a phrase and it’s nice to know that Qualcomm are on the same page!

Russell

By: Thomas W

Thomas W — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:02:02 +0000

Pocket & Dock It

Just wanted to share with you a neat little phrase that pretty much covers the vision you’re talking about here, Russell. First heard it from a Qualcomm executive, who was talking around the San Diego vision of future devices that they see will be driven by their new SnapDragon chipsets (http://www.cdmatech.com/products/snapdragon.jsp). Anyway, he’s coined the phrase “Pocket & Dock It” devices, which QCOM see as being portable/pocketable devices with 5-7″ screen, cellular connectivity (e.g. via HSPA ) used in conjunction with docking station to become users’ PRIMARY device for accessing the internet, effectively replacing their users’ existing PCs. All sounds very nice, although such devices seem destined in the medium-term more to take share from laptop sales and BlackBerry/Smartphone, rather than the mass market feature phone segment.