BUT — there are millions of people who haven’t used a laptop or even a desktop computer who are perfectly impressed with what they get on a small Nokia 6230 screen here across Africa. Usability sucks if you compare it to what most of us use on an hourly basis – but it means the universe to people who have no other means to get connected to the Internet. It’s really just a getting-used-to question.
(BTW I’m honored to be featured in the above picture ^^)
]]>As mobile phones get more powerful while more laptops get minified (e,g. netbooks, OLPC) and bandwidth becomes cheaper and faster the difference between desktops and mobile phones will get very blurred.
And BTW, expensive phones don’t remain expensive forever. After being used and old-fashioned, you can buy them cheap too! It was difficult to imagine how cheap camera-phones could be just a couple of years ago.
But that’s an interesting analogy there, Rabble.
]]>Yeah well the iPhone. Remember back in 1998 when everyone was looking for “the killer app” to push WAP forward? My biggest issue with the current state is the interface – even on a state-of-the-art S60 Nokia (with lots of other features) this isn’t solved that well (=> iPhone).
What about netbooks, btw? What will happen if netbooks with internal GSM modems enter the market and start substituting mobile phones as the only or most common gateway?
And the other question i have: What exactly is mobile web? The one you access from a mobile phone – or even the usual web content you access from another mobile device?
Am asking because maybe it’s not only the devices and their software, but also about original content that was designed for both usage patterns (desktop & mobile device).