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echo: osdebate
to: Geo.
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2007-05-20 12:46:20
subject: Re: Cellphones as app development platform for web and other purposes?

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Top sites have re-worked their pages for small devices.  Check out the .mobi domains.

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Glenn M.
"Geo."  wrote in message
news:465083dd$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Randall Parker"
>

> wrote in message news:46507804$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Can you imagine web sites designed to make better use of a lower res
>> device? Or is the basic problem that low res devices just do not how
>> enough info?
>
> The problem with celphones as browsers is that the site would need to be
> nothing but text to be even remotely usable. You just can't browse on a
> device with limited battery life and sit waiting for 4 minutes per page
> for some stupid image buttons or ads to load.
>
> It's like using linx at 9600bps to browse. It's just not workable in
> todays web world where everything is geared for dsl.
>
> Geo.

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