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BBC: How smart does your phone need to be?

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 Published November 8th, 2007 12:53 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

A BBC article published today on their website discusses the advancements made on the non-smartphone mobile phones.

How smart is your phone? 

“Can your phone take pictures? Probably yes.

But can it sync with the diary and contacts on your computer? Download and play music and videos? Play video games? Browse the web, do your e-mail? Tell you where you are and where to go?

Your answers are important – not just when you decide on your next mobile phone.”

Internet usage on phones growing

“Data usage “has already moved out of the early adopters stage,” says Paul Goode at M:Metrics.

T-Mobile is reporting double-digit growth for mobile internet usage in the UK during the past 18 months.”

Mobile browsing more popular than on PC

“In India, “more people access the internet from their phone than from a PC, a scenario that will certainly play out right across the globe,” says Dr Srikanth.

In Bangladesh, meanwhile, more people are using the popular Opera mini browser for mobile phones than there are computers in the country, says Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive of Opera.”

(Read the BBC article)

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  1. 1 Madis Nov 8th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    I’m quite happy as Opera Mini has finally came to Estonia too, at least I see some young people using it, sometimes showing it to me. I have seen it when the version 3 came out anyway. Interesting if the new OM 4 Final supports Siemens C75 though, as betas didn’t, but 3 did perfectly – however, I’m too lazy to fix my new settings for gprs and I don’t need to waste money actually anyway… yet.

  2. 2 Steve Barker Nov 8th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Linux Linux

    After claiming last week that only 400-600 users use linux to access BBC.co.uk, its good to see something possitive.

    Re: [url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/highfield_bbc_linux_website_users_bafflement/]Link to the Reister[/url]

  3. 3 Jonathan Nov 9th, 2007 at 10:12 am
    using Opera Opera 9.24 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    I have bought the most simple phone (Nokia) last year’s November. Opera Mini doesn’t run on it, but I am happy with the phone anyway. Opera on Desktop (both Linux and Mac) is very good :)

  4. 4 Daniel Goldman Nov 9th, 2007 at 11:29 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Jonathan, perhaps you should try downloading the low-fi version of Opera Mini 3.

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