Websites and Browsers: the Rise of the Cellphone

[mandy]

Here's something everyone will have to take into consideration when designing their websites in the not too distant future: cell phones.

Access to TulipTools by browser from Nov 1-20:  several Internet Explorer versions narrowly edged out various Firefox (gecko) versions , and then at #10 & #11 a pair of cell phone browsers: Motorola T720 and Nokia 6822 mobile browsers combined for 5.3% of all traffic.

# Hits User Agent
1 166140 14.50% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko
2 142398 12.43% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET
3 125571 10.96% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
4 98878 8.63% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko
5 79342 6.92% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; YPC 3.0.3;
6 67998 5.93% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko
7 42592 3.72% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
8 39117 3.41% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
9 31615 2.76% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/2006
10 31440 2.74% MOT-T720/G_05.07.23R MIB/2.0 Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/C
11 29273 2.55% Nokia6682/2.0 (3.01.1) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6 Profile/MID

[Jen]

That's interesting.  I guess I need to make my software downloadable to cell phones, or those pda-cell phone things that are becoming more popular.  Speaking of which - anyone love their blackberry/Q/etc thing?  I haven't gotten real good at the thumb-typing thing, which seemed to be the forte of the blackberry - anybody have a convenient thing in their pocket that they couldn't live without? 

Jen

[mandy]

Mobile access is slowly making its way to lower end ecommerce scripts.  One of the first to incorporate mobile features is Comersus 7.05:

Comersus mobile features:
WAP Catalog utility for Cell Phones and PDAs
WAP Storefront (Browse, Purchase and Tracking) for Mobile Phones and PDA now with credit card payments
WAP BackOffice (Products, Discounts, Orders and Statistics) for Mobile Phones and PDA
WAP BackOffice to manage some parts and view reports using a Cell Phone

http://www.comersus.com/features.html

[WebGraphicsSource]

so has anyone remembered to register a .mobi domain name

[jezebel]

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so has anyone remembered to register a .mobi domain name
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I've added over 50 .mobi names to my domain portfolio.