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Mobile web access has taken off
Nibble
Internet co-founder claims
Friday, 24 April 2009, 11:36
INTERNET CO-FOUNDER Vinton Cerf claims that mobile web access has finally taken off and will grow.
Cerf told a five-day web conference in Madrid that, thanks to better technology, mobile use will drive Internet growth over the next few years. He claimed that more people will lose their Internet virginity with a mobile phone than a laptop.
Inventor of the World Wide Wibble Tim Berners-Lee concurred, saying that the explosion in the number of mobile phones having the capabilitiy to access the Internet will enable millions in developing nations to go online for the first time. µ
L'Inq
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"more people will lose their Internet virginity"
So inmature!!
GROW UP PLEASE!
Geez, do you tip up in pubs and tell people to quiet down and stop drinking?
News flash: we don't need you to make the Inq "safe" for us. So, save your sanctimony for Sunday services and bugger the fuck off.
Oh, sorry, was I being immature again?
Yeah, with a quota of 1 GB, maybe 5 GB per month, things really take off. You hit a few web pages with Flash crap and gone is your gigabyte. Don't even think about downloading something useful (for your netbook), or watching a movie while waiting for the train. With an advertized transfer rate of 7200 Mbit/s, your 5 GB quota is gone in 1.5 hours. A 1 GB quota is wasted in less than 20 minutes. That's it for the month. All you get then is 8 kB/s. Most web servers disconnect your mobile PC or handy if you try to access something at that rate for more than a few seconds.
I use the net on my Blackberry Bold all the time - Its great! I use the Opera Mini browser. The quotas aren't a problem - I'm not trying to download movies, just read websites like The Inq.
The only real problem is websites which don't work at all without flash. Even if flash was supported on the Blackberry, flash just isn't compatible with the small screen size. Opera does a great job presenting websites on the small screen. The overall layout of the web page is maintained but any text is displayed in columns which match the width of the small screen. It also automatically scrolls the screen left and right so it is centered on whichever picture, text or other component you're looking at.
For those few horrible websites where the whole site is done in flash I don't know how this type of automatic layout optimization could possibly be done.