This article on using mobile phones to search for information steers clear of the 3G-whizz stuff and focusses on things that anybody can do…such as sending and receiving SMS’s to Google and Yahoo. “The experience is much like text browsing in the early days of the Internet,” said Allen Tsai, founder of Mobiledia.com, a site for comparison shopping of cellphones. The industry is hoping that more and more people will catch on to the simplicity of using mobile phones for things other than voice, since telco analyst Paul Budde opines that only 1-2 percent of web-enabled handsets are used for anything more than voice calls and text messaging. Of course, once people get used to using their phones for everything — even just through SMS messages — they’re going to start looking for higher-end phones, and higher-end phone services…
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