Interacting with the web on mobile phones

Posted by David Whitehouse

One thing I’ve noticed after owning the G1 for about a week is that the way I interact with the Interweb is different.

On my mobile it seems to be more about apps rather than web pages – to be honest web pages load too slow for me and I find them fiddly to navigate. I guess mobile ads must have the worst conversion rates on AdWords because of this.

So what effect will everyone switching to mobile Internet browsing have? Personally I’d like to see less images, less links etc. and more text. I also won’t click any ads – as I don’t tend to buy on my phone much. If I was to buy my phone it would probably be through an app. So maybe companies should be developing apps to allow people to buy stuff from their phone… I don’t just mean the big boys like Amazon and Ebay – but the little guy too. Perhaps we need some kind of app that works for OSCommerce – so the little guy can compete. This might be a new aspect of web development that really kicks off – doing transactional apps for ecommerce shops. Perhaps there is a market for a company that can bring all this data together in a neat little app – maybe there is already!

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  1. At last a blog with the information I needed thank you.

    Comment by freelgarena — June 6, 2009 #

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