Mobile phones are not ideal for surfing the web and yet they have their advantages. They’re portable and cheap plus most of us carry them with us all the time. Might we be looking towards a world where lightweight devices with small screens provide our default connection to the web?
A study commissioned by T-Mobile found that mobile phones provide employees with the ability to connect to the world outside their cubicle even when management restricts access to social networking, web-based email, and other non-work-related websites. Here’s where a mobile phone’s portability comes in most handy — 15% of those surveyed even confessed to mobile browsing in the bathroom.
In response to the T-Mobile study, Jeremy Wagstaff suggests that mobile browsing is the future:
History will find it weird, not that we connect to the Web on the john with a device once designed to make phone calls, but that for 15 years we had to do that via a big hunk of metal, plastic and wires sitting in the middle of what used to be a big open space called a desk.
Do you surf the web on your mobile phone? What sites do you visit from your tiny screen? Do you foresee a day when you will do most of your surfing on a phone rather than a PC?
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