Well, this applies to Korea, which is way ahead of the world’s mobile curve… “Korea’s main mobile carriers — SK Telecom and KTF — have said they will open up their mobile internet platforms to other firms from September this year, and LG Telecom also plans to follow suit.
“The new handsets’ user interface to the Web will be similar to that of personal computers. Users can directly type in the domain address to enter any site,” said SK Telecom vice president Park Byung-keun…Park added that redirection of a hot key, which links up to a preset Web page at the touch of a button, will become easier just as PC users can reconfigure the starting page of the landline Internet.”
They’re not the first to break down the walls around the mobile internet garden – T-Mobile did it more than six months ago — but they are the first (at least, to my knowledge) to make the mobile internet more like the PC experience with things like deciding what the homepage is. (via TechDirt)
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