Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/06/07 21:16

Ben C wrote:
> 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.

Sure, the same is true over here. But web access from a cell phone is slow.

But instant messaging is not using the web. And it has nothing to do
with the internet.

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