{"id":6486,"date":"2008-02-15T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T08:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/mobile-browsing-gets-better.html"},"modified":"2008-02-15T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T08:10:01","slug":"mobile-browsing-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/mobile-browsing-gets-better.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Browsing Gets Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/images\/nokia-n810-internet-tablet.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has some <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/02\/15\/using-the-mobile-web-is-a-sticky-proposition\/\">thoughts <\/a>on mobile browsing and concludes that the mobile web browsing experience is still not great but it is getting better. She discusses a number of new and even existing companies who are targeting this market and hopefully making it easier to browse while on the go.<\/p>\n<p>As Higginbotham points out, it is essential for wireless carriers to give us better browsing as AT&amp;T has shown you can make amazing money if you can provide a better browsing experience.<\/p>\n<p>As a user of the mobile web, I must say that things are getting better but I still wish for larger screens and better keyboards. An iPhone with a screen double the size allowing for a larger keyboard and more browsing room would be fantastic.<img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/iphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the device could be slightly thiker and have a clamshell design allowing it to double the screen real estate, I would be thrilled. For mobile browsing, I think Nokia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/nokia-n800-the-real-story.html\">N800<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/nokia-810-review.html\">N810<\/a> is still the gold standard but of course you need to connect the device <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wireless\/wmwifirouter.html\">wirelessly <\/a>to your phone if you want to access the web over a cellular connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has some thoughts on mobile browsing and concludes that the mobile web browsing experience is still not great but it is getting better. She discusses a number of new and even existing companies who are targeting this market and hopefully making it easier to browse while on the go. As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,118,174,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}