Mobile Web Use on the Rise

Posted by: Sr. Editor Lonny Paul on Friday, March 21st, 2008

CompUSA customers tend to be a bit more hip than the average bear - and you are probably using the internet more than your peers on mobile devices - and according to Google - more than ever. According to a TopTechNews story,

Early evidence showing sharp increases in Internet use on phones, not just computers, has emerged from services that Google began offering in recent months on the Blackberry, the iPhone and Nokia devices for business professionals and creators of multimedia pictures and videos, Google said Tuesday.

“We have very much hit a watershed moment in terms of mobile Internet usage,” Matt Waddell, a product manager for Google Mobile, said in an interview. “We are seeing that mobile Internet use is in fact accelerating.

When nobody was using the Internet on the phone, I was. When nobody had a Blackberry, I did. When nobody had Windows Mobile, I did. Now, I just have a phone. While the allure of the iPhone and some of the other sexy GSM devices that have been coming out - I’m not sure exactly how I feel about mobile computing - although I love using my iPod Touch on WiFi - and having that everywhere would be nice - but after spending 20 hours a day on a computer - do you need more time to be connected?

While Google knows what we are doing, much like Santa Claus, rest assured that mobile use of the web will continue to grow until it becomes as common as the cellphone.