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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/06/07 12:41
Karl Groves wrote:
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in news:doraymeRidThis-
> 118B39.07520506102007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
>
>> In article
>> <1191583146.710342.51170@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>> Phil Payne <phil@isham-research.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> "Globally, just over one-fourth (28%) of mobile phone owners worldwide
>>> have browsed the Internet on a wireless handset, up slightly from 25%
>>> at the end 2004.
>> How come I don't know a single person who does this?
>>
>
> I don't, either. Further, I think "...have browsed the Internet..." is
> probably a bit deceiving. As soon as I found out my phone could access the
> web, I tried it. It was so painful an experience, I've never done it
> again.
Certainly *plenty* of people are getting e-mail by phone. That *is* the
Internet, you know. When you say "browse the Internet", you're really
referring specifically to the Web.
It's painful to access many sites, it's true. But Google is fine. Some
sites have good mobile versions--Yahoo and the Washington Post, for
example. The downloadable version of Google Maps for Windows Mobile,
which pulls live data from the Internet, works really nicely on the
Treo. Wikipedia--with several skins available, I'm surprised one hasn't
been designed specifically for handheld devices, but in any event it
works well in IE on Windows Mobile when I set it to use One Column mode.
So I never have to wait till I get home or to the office to look stuff up.
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