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YahooMobile Phones Poised To Overtake The PC As The Dominate Internet Platform In Some Markets, According To Ipsos Insight's Latest The Face of the Web Study
If you blog, you're already a mobile publisher.
Mobile Surfing Becoming Mainstream
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. Interestingly, growth in this behavior for 2005 was driven by the older users (age 35+), indicating that surfing the Internet on a mobile phone is emerging as a mainstream activity, no longer dominated by the traditional early adopter segment - young males - typical of many new consumer technologies.
If you're keeping score, 28% of the 2.5 Billion mobile phone scribers equals 700 million people. Compare that number to the 1 Billion Internet users.
From an "older user"
Grace Davis April 19, 2006 - 4:11pm
Fascinating and promising - except for one very obvious thing to this 51 year old user:
Even with the best of reading glasses, it's a bitch to read the text on a tiny cell phone/mobile unit screen.
Until presbyopia is cured, I will stick with my laptop monitor.
I'm not being glib here. This is a huge practical issue that is overlooked continuously by product developers. How do you make these technologies useful for the truly aging (50 plus) population?
It's more than just the weeny screen, it's also the key pad on a cell phone. An older person with arthritis in their fingers will not be able to manipulate those little keys for any reason. And a good reason would be for sending out an emergency message/email.
I can only surmise that the "some markets" referenced in your leading paragraph does not include my demographic.
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Grace Davis State of Grace
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