Posted by Ben C on 10/06/07 16:04

On 2007-10-06, Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:
> Karl Groves wrote:
[...]
> 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.

As more people start to browse the web on phones (for which it has to
become a bit cheaper, but it will) designers will start testing their
sites more on phone browsers and it will all start to work better.

There is also the argument that in Europe people like to talk to their
friends on their phones, not play games, watch cartoons, or browse the
web. But this argument now falls down as people have started using the
web mainly to talk to their (so-called) friends anyway.

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