If, however, we look at those countries that went from no internet straight to mobile phone, that’s where we need to go.

Whether around Africa or in Japan and Korea, the mobile is the primary access device for the internet, and so applications are normally developed first on mobile with the specific reuirements of that platform, from local commodity prices via sms to the whole virtually high-definition equivalent of mobile available in Japan.

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

Similiarly, I find myself surfing the web on long family car trips with my aircard. Ever changing the stimga of starying out the window doing nothing, when now, I am surfing or doing something productive. And since Sprint is building highspeed where others aren’t, I will always have high speed connectivity.

As people mention, tiny screens make it tough to use the web on a phone. But a bigger problem for large numbers of users may be the way carriers configure the phones. Google is useful on a mobile phone, but it isn’t within a few clicks of carrier home screens, and typing in addresses ain’t that easy. Even Blackberries, at least on T-Mobile, place browser favorites you add way down an expanded list useless links, making it tougher to come back to the addresses you like.

A little help pointing users to text-based sites for finding immediately useful data would help adoption.

The web simply sucks on a 4 inch screen.

It’s an issue of the biology and optics of the eye, not of the device you’re using to view the web. Make a bigger device and the web won’t suck on it. Of course, if you make a bigger device you start to get to subnotebook size…

You make good point, but seems like you missed this little bit

Assuming that the non-messaging data revenues are in the 50-60% (of the data revenues)

I am told this is everything but SMS and SMS-related offerings. Ringtones fall in that category? Not sure about it and will obviously make a few calls to clarify in the morning. Bear with me.