Saturday, April 12, 2008

Smartphones Boost up Mobile Browsing Market

There has been a huge growth in mobile browsers over the last year because of the growing popularity of Smartphones gradually and it has been predicted that the mobile browser market would go up to 1.5 billion units in the world by 2013. This is mainly because of the number of mobile browsers which allows user to enjoy the Web 2.0' technologies. According to a recent research conducted by ABI Research, there will be a huge growth in the open internet browser (OBI) over the next five years. Different companies are coming up with new software for the mobile browsing to provide the users with PC based browsing experience. However, the research also pointed out that it was not yet possible to bridge the gap between mobile browser and PC based browser.

IT Pro reported:

It predicted that, while a large number of phones today still use browsers with very limited web browsing capabilities, growth in the open internet browser (OIB) segment for mobile will increase from 76 million in 2007 to nearly 700 million browsers delivered in 2013.

Michael Wolf, ABI Research director pointed to recently released commercial software from Opera, Openwave and ACCESS, in addition to those that use open source software, like Webkit, are opening up mobile internet to users without the limitations due to the traditional browser constraints of Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) service and its descendents.
"The focus today for mobile browser developers is to take advantage of the latest web standards while also developing solutions tailored towards the unique experience of using a browser on a mobile phone," he said.

Well, still I am optimistic regarding the progress of mobile browser. Smartphones are getting smarter gradually presenting new technologies which allow users to fell more independence while browsing in mobile. So, it is obvious that there will be a notable growth in the mobile browsing market in the years to come.

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