Sunil Jain

Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet

Even when your handset has infinite RAM, CPU and support for various technologies (including flash), it will still be difficult to get a real web browsing experience because your handsets will still be limited by screen size and input mechanisms (like use of a mouse and keyboard in most cases). Developer/Companies develop web pages for PC web. The automatic transcoding/conversion of web pages for mobile handsets, by handsets, network or both, is only best-effort. Also, just because you can do it, doesn't mean that you should, or assume that somehow user is interesting in browsing the entire site consisting of 250 pages (think of the nightmare traversing this website using the keys on your handset; it becomes totally useless)! If companies are interested in a presence on the "mobile web", they need to have a mobile strategy that should include designing their site from scratch for mobile (and hopefully include mobile-only-centric features such as mobile ads, location APIs, telephony APIs, etc.).