Today, Google announced another mobile partnership (this time Yahoo Go 2.0 (this is not long after Ask released Users, on the other hand, can then play around with several browsers available for their phone - they may have to decide between Opera Mobile and Opera Mini, and that's just one vendor - but these browsers all show different results on websites, and may come in several very different layout settings (for example, my mobile Internet Explorer allows me to format the page in "one row", "standard", or "desktop" view, none of which works for certain sites). Users may even find that the mobile "optimized" site actually works much less well on their mobile browser than the normal website, ending up tweaking the browser's user agent variable, if that option's available.
foldable electronic paper. It'll fit in your pocket, and you take it out to find it expand to a medium-screen sized, stable structure. Then when someone asks you "what system are you running on your phone?" you'll simply answer "Vista" or something. Then, when you want to access Gmail, you'll simply type gmail.com. And when you want to watch a video, you go to YouTube. And by then, the Google Samsung partnership, Yahoo Go 2.0, and Ask Mobile will be artifacts of the past collecting dust in a web museum... you know, the kind of museum where kids walk through and ponder, "How were people ever able to use this clunky stuff?"
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Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Blogoscoped.
The Mobile Chaos Continues...
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