14 January 2008

Symbian Smartphones
Beats iPhone in Data Traffic!

Beside the multi touch, probably the most famous feature of the iPhone is its Safari based internet browser.

Mainly it is because Apple claims that iPhone is the first mobile phone with full mobile web browser and promises desktop like experience of surfing on the mobile phones.

Sure we know that this is far away from the truth and ground reality, just another nasty product of Apple’s marketing.

iPhone isn’t the first phone with full mobile web browser. Nokia has developed and introduced the first truly full web browser two years ago with its first S60 3rd edition phone.

Anyway, below is the article that is typical product of the Apple marketing and I tend to disagree with almost all points except the fact that iPhone is still behind the Symbian Smartphones in Data Trafficn although it is expectable considering that Symbian holds 63% of the world smartphone market compared to the iPhone's 2%.

The another important thing is fact that lot of Symbian phones uses great OperaMini for browsing, especially on lowend phones where the built-in browser sucks and as OperaMini doesn't report the OS it runs on and over all results isn't very reliable.

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New York Times has found that on Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic from any other type of mobile device, according to internal Google data made available to The New York Times. A few days later, iPhone traffic to Google fell below that of devices powered by the Nokia-backed Symbian operating system but remained higher than traffic from any other type of cellphone.

The iPhone has taken the frustration out of browsing on a mobile phone, said Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Company. Other companies confirmed the trends, if not the specific data, observed by Google. Yahoo, for instance, said iPhones accounted for a disproportionate amount of its mobile traffic. And AdMob, a firm that shows billions of ads on mobile Web sites every month, said it saw traffic from iPhones surge drastically around Christmas.

“Consumers are going to demand Internet browsers” as good as Apple’s, said Vic Gundotra, a Google vice president who oversees mobile products.

.:[ read the full NYT article right here ]:.