Comments on: Mobile Web Dead?

By: john dedman

john dedman — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:14:45 +0000

My Nokia 6300 is now back at the t-mobile factory for repairs for the next three weeks. I would like to know if any of these browsers work like web’n'walk Orange World etc. I’ve tried them all and end up back with Opera Mini 3. Please send a reply if you know anything about all this shambles. Regards and Best Wishes John Dedman London England

By: John Dedman

John Dedman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:38:42 +0000

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By: John Dedman

John Dedman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:16:55 +0000

Well folks All I can say is that I do everything on my Nokia 6300 including emails sending and receiving only thru Opera Mini browser. The t-mobile server’s web’n'walk is a disaster in my phone. Everything relies on my free download of Opera Mini to browse the internet. Reading newspapers around the world etc. John Dedman

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:34:56 +0000

custom app development is a serious time sink because of device proliferation and unique requirements that each device have, even when running a common OS.

By: Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:31:01 +0000

IMHO, non-browser web apps are the answer to this problem. Yes, browsing on my Berry 8800 is ugly and slow on EDGE. I tolerate it when I’m feeling patient, but in truth I cancel out of page loads as often as not. I installed a mobile template on my own WordPress blog just to make reading it on-the-go tolerable.

OTOH, Facebook’s custom app for my Berry works great, as does Google Maps. If my bank/credit card provider offered custom apps so that I could check my balances, make payments, etc., I’d use them regularly.

By: Whither the mobile web… « Crossderry Blog

Whither the mobile web… « Crossderry Blog — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:46:15 +0000

[...] on April 16, 2008 by Paul Ritchie Jeff Nolan posts on the collapse of the mobile web hype cycle (here). He also has a number of good links on mobile stats and just how unimpressive they are. My [...]

By: Paul Ritchie

Paul Ritchie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:46:29 +0000

I doubt that any variation on the current form factor of mobile devices will ever support “browsing” for mainstream users (regardless of bandwidth). Viewing headlines, scores, maps, searches, blogs, etc… that’s OK. One has to be pretty hardcore to follow links around like one does on a full-screen browser.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:44:34 +0000

This is a fair point Dan, but I would be careful about differentiating between the “mobile web” and “mobile services”. My experience in Asia and Europe has left me with the observation that these carriers have been much more aggressive about developing mobile services independent of a browser and that they have also enabled a 3rd party ecosystem of developers who build to the networks, something U.S. carriers are still reluctant to do broadly.

DoCoMo’s i-Mode is a great example and they have 46 million users.

By: dan mcweeney

dan mcweeney — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:48:43 +0000

Isn’t this very US centric? I haven’t spent enough time in the Pacific rim but reading anecdotal evidence from there suggests that the mobile web is far from dead. I agree that the US has attained “laggard” status but this due to the carrier monopoly in the US but we will eventually catch up. The Pacific Rim has always led in technology adoption, what is telling you that this is no longer the case?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:22:10 +0000

I was thinking about this today so more. I don’t want a phone that has a PC experience, I want a super portable PC that has communication capabilities.