Date: 5th Aug 2010
Mobile phone's new avatar is Internet
on hand
As predicted mobile phones are fast turning into handheld
Internet surfing device/appliance. More than making voice
calls the mobile phone is used for accessing multimedia
and data and to play such content. And lot more applications
are expected in social networking domain. From finding lifemate
to shopping, people's immediate choice might be this handheld
personal e-buddy. The key driver is swift implementation
of 3G all around the globe.
Here is a market research figure on internet browsers in
phones; In 2015 3.8 billion mobile handsets, slightly more
than 60% of the installed base of mobile handsets worldwide
- will contain mobile web browsers, according to a new study
from ABI Research. That doubles today's penetration rate.
"Mobile browsers are evolving along two paths,"
says senior analyst Mark Beccue. "On one hand, highly
sophisticated browsers, which we are calling full Internet
browsers, will be found in all smartphones and a growing
number of enhanced (or feature) phones. Such devices can
host these browsers because they have advanced application
processors, expanded memory capacity and adequate screen
size and resolution. These full Internet browsers typically
require about 64Mb of memory to run. A real key to the growth
of full Internet browsers in higher-end feature phones is
the falling cost of sophisticated applications processors.
But there is also a second path.
It's not just internet browsers new tech-industry business
turf is to develop or tune the content for portable device
platforms. The first one here in Apple's iPhone and iPad.
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