1.5 billion mobile handsets sold in 2011, nearly one third are smartphones. Nokia is still top dog for handsets, but Samsung and Apple sold more smartphones.
Submitted by Furie (not verified) on 29 October, 2009 - 14:08.
Hmmm, you guys seem to have a very American/old fashioned view of the mobile internet. Things have changed a lot over the past decade or so with mobile web users wanting the option to have exactly the same content they can get from a desktop browser. We're not just "people on the move" who're away from our primary web device (the computer) anymore. A lot of us have our phones as our primary data based communications devices and don't even bother with computers. We don't just log on for a minute or two to grab a bitesize piece of information anymore, we're constantly online with data being pulled to our devices through multiple applications, e-mail being pushed to us all day, and our browsers active most of the day as we stay connected to various full websites, search full news sites for information and keep updated on the various social networks that we use. In short, the average mobile web user these days is the average desktop web user from just three years ago and the gap is closing every day.
I view more Youtube videos than most of my PC using friends, have more of an impact online, run a blog (that is the 138th most popular in a site with over 3 million users, mostly on PCs) and design the CSS for it, update my Twitter account regularly, and do so much more all from my phone every single day. These are things I've been doing for ten or eleven years and I've only recently gotten a smartphone two years ago as my needs increased slightly beyond the scope of regular feature phones. Yes I'm an early adaptor, but as time has gone on I've been proven time and again to be the shape of things to come, and the majority of mobile web users are starting to follow my lead.
The annoying thing we find is when sites automatically redirect us to mobile sites which have much less functionality than we're after. Kudos to the site designer here by the way for actually offering a choice to users. A much better idea though is to set up a mobile friendly stylesheet so that the same information can be displayed in a mobile friendly manner without cutting down the functionality. The most popular mobile browser in the world actually has two view modes that allow users to see the site as it appears on desktop, or to see the mobile stylesheet, after all. Don't give us seperate mobile sites (which are a temporary phenomenon designed to take advantage of the weaker mobile web browsers that were the mainstream five years ago and are now just bloody annoying) when you can make your full site more mobile friendly to actually offer something of quality to your users.
Hmmm, you guys seem to have a very American/old fashioned view of the mobile internet. Things have changed a lot over the past decade or so with mobile web users wanting the option to have exactly the same content they can get from a desktop browser. We're not just "people on the move" who're away from our primary web device (the computer) anymore. A lot of us have our phones as our primary data based communications devices and don't even bother with computers. We don't just log on for a minute or two to grab a bitesize piece of information anymore, we're constantly online with data being pulled to our devices through multiple applications, e-mail being pushed to us all day, and our browsers active most of the day as we stay connected to various full websites, search full news sites for information and keep updated on the various social networks that we use. In short, the average mobile web user these days is the average desktop web user from just three years ago and the gap is closing every day.
I view more Youtube videos than most of my PC using friends, have more of an impact online, run a blog (that is the 138th most popular in a site with over 3 million users, mostly on PCs) and design the CSS for it, update my Twitter account regularly, and do so much more all from my phone every single day. These are things I've been doing for ten or eleven years and I've only recently gotten a smartphone two years ago as my needs increased slightly beyond the scope of regular feature phones. Yes I'm an early adaptor, but as time has gone on I've been proven time and again to be the shape of things to come, and the majority of mobile web users are starting to follow my lead.
The annoying thing we find is when sites automatically redirect us to mobile sites which have much less functionality than we're after. Kudos to the site designer here by the way for actually offering a choice to users. A much better idea though is to set up a mobile friendly stylesheet so that the same information can be displayed in a mobile friendly manner without cutting down the functionality. The most popular mobile browser in the world actually has two view modes that allow users to see the site as it appears on desktop, or to see the mobile stylesheet, after all. Don't give us seperate mobile sites (which are a temporary phenomenon designed to take advantage of the weaker mobile web browsers that were the mainstream five years ago and are now just bloody annoying) when you can make your full site more mobile friendly to actually offer something of quality to your users.