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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Limpag: Mobile web
By Max T. Limpag
Celltalk
Developments. Recent developments indicate better experience for mobile Internet users, particularly those using their mobile phones, is on the horizon.
Last week, Motorola announced that it will begin selling cell phones with a button for one click access to Google’s search engine.
The statement came after the company announced an agreement with Kodak to improve camera phones.
Under the agreement, the Associated Press reported, “The companies will co-develop devices with Kodak sensors that will integrate withKodak printers, kiosks and other services.”
With the Kodak agreement, we can expect better camera phones from Motorola. The company has already forged an agreement with Apple formusic mobiles that integrate the iconic company’s Ipod player into mobile phones. Rokr, the first model to come out of that agreement, however, has mixed reviews from users
PERSONAL HOME PAGE. I’m sure the Google search integration would be helpful but I think it would be better off for all-Motorola, Googleand the users, for the button to con nect to your personalized Google home page.
The Google personal home page at www.google. com/IG, is a portal that allows you to not just search Google but also keep track of your Google Mail and the headlines of blogs and news sites you want moni tored.
This is a better destination for the planned Google button in Motorola phones. YAHOO. Motorola is also reported to be working to integrate Yahoo Go Mobile in their phones.
According to the Associated Press, with Yahoo Mobile: “Anyone with aYahoo account can have their customized data they now get through theWeb portal load itself into whichever device they carry. The information — from news to restaurant reviews to personal contacts and appointments — will be synchronized through whatever data network theymay be using — cellular or Wi-Fi, for example.”
Unlike the graphic-intensive Yahoo homepage available to computer users, Yahoo will be publishing a stripped version streamlined forview on the mobile phone.
The application can be downloaded for free at Yahoo. The Internet portal pioneer is also reported to have signed a deal with Nokia for the program to be pre-installed in the phone giant’s products.
With phone manufacturers and web giants cooperating to make the mobile web experience even better, will accessing the Internet through yourcellular phones become ubiquitous?
In more advanced countries, there is a very big chance for this to happen. But in third world countries like the Philippines, this is still several years away. For mobile web usage to become ubiquitous inRP, prices of handsets capable of browsing the web should go down substantially.
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