Dean Bubley

Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet

Brewer - I'm an industry analyst. I look at the way the industry as a whole is developing.

You completely misread that "I don't use an iPhone because I want Flash".

My post isn't about my personal device decisions. What I'm using personally is irrelevant to my analysis of the wider market.

I'm not a particular fan of any brand of handset or OS and I also don't give advice to other people on what devices to buy, nor do I recommend investments. And I certainly don't need advice from other anonymous people on what devices I should use personally - as I'm in the industry I'm quite aware of the options and their pros/cons.

What my clients pay me for is to look at the way the mobile industry will *most probably* develop, or sometimes other scenarios, or how they could influence them. My blog & the syndicated posts on SeekingAlpha are adhoc comments on the way I see certain trends developing - hence this one about mobile browsing.

I'm currently surrounded by about a dozen devices of various types, I switch between them regularly, and I have used an iPhone a fair bit (I even bought my father one as an Xmas present). Some of them are paid for by me, some of them are sent to me for evaluation - such as the E71 which I'm using as my main work email/web device at present. If O2 send me an iPhone, I'd probably use that more, and to be honest it's been ages since I used a BlackBerry, so ideally I'd play with one of those for a month or two as well.