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Monday, September 11, 2006
Little Springs Design on the Mobile Web, part 1
Little Springs Design has an interesting note (the first in a series) about the Mobile Web that e.g. argues that mobile browsers need to be able to handle multiple overlaid windows displaying different web pages.
This already works well on smartphones, and as Symbian OS is increasingly used in mass market style phones (primarily from Nokia) and even Windows Mobile, the user has the choice to get a phone with this functionality without having to go bankrupt. Sure, web pages eat memory like crazy, but in part that's a matter of software design.
I'd argue that the major issue is still the small display, and phones need to have a small display to be portable, so this is a tricky thing to solve as web designers are not up to speed on phone-specific requirements yet.
With a system like Opera Mini with a transcoding gateway you can get pretty compact and fast data transfers and hence less cost for the users, and I hope that operators will also rethink the rates for data overall, maybe coming down to 1/10 of what it is today.
Little Springs Design - designing the mobile user experience » Blog Archive » What’s wrong with the mobile web? (part 1)
This already works well on smartphones, and as Symbian OS is increasingly used in mass market style phones (primarily from Nokia) and even Windows Mobile, the user has the choice to get a phone with this functionality without having to go bankrupt. Sure, web pages eat memory like crazy, but in part that's a matter of software design.
I'd argue that the major issue is still the small display, and phones need to have a small display to be portable, so this is a tricky thing to solve as web designers are not up to speed on phone-specific requirements yet.
With a system like Opera Mini with a transcoding gateway you can get pretty compact and fast data transfers and hence less cost for the users, and I hope that operators will also rethink the rates for data overall, maybe coming down to 1/10 of what it is today.
Little Springs Design - designing the mobile user experience » Blog Archive » What’s wrong with the mobile web? (part 1)
