On Nov 27, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
On 11/27/05, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
S. Woodside wrote:
Long articles - basically your average mobile user is going to be
unhappy if they download a 50KB + article.
Why? Do those phones have such little memory that they can't cope
with
that? Or are the browsers so crap they can't display the beginning of
the page until all 50KB are loaded?
Some mobile phone users pay their data connection according to the
number of KB transferred. Good for reading text-only email, but not
for much else.
I think that it's more accurate to say "most" mobile phone users.
Including a lot of users who have "unlimited" plans that do actually
have a cap.
The other reason is that mobile data speeds are currently on par
roughly with a 14.4 modem, so that size matters for speed. 3G is
faster, but it's not coming in very quickly.
Here's another thing: in low-income nations, mobile clients might
actually be WAY more available to the average person than a desktop
client! The trend for mobile data in the developing nations is HUGE.
--simon
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