iPhone and iPod Touch dominate handheld web traffic race The iPhone and iPod Touch each generate more web traffic than any other handheld device. That's according to new figures by the advertising firm Admob, which measures online traffic based on ad requests. Its January metrics place Apple's iPhone and its derivative non-Phone device in the first and second spots for internet …
Does this seem ass-backwards to anyone else?
The numbers seem logical – there are a _lot_ of Nokia phones out there, after all – but still, ad requests seems a bizarre metric. I suppose it's more a case of drawing attention to their ad network than being about the actual usage stats.
Loved the Missed Universe type metaphor. I suppose their hobbies are mainly traveling and meeting people and they’re all aiming for World Pieces. Perhaps, like the real thing, they all look good, but disappoint with their chosen talent.
I wonder where the horse race came in. Shouldn’t it have been a cat fight?
I use my Nokia N95 all the time for web surfing. I don't think I have ever hit one of their adds. I am in the US and using ATT but can't use 3g on the N95 due to the frequency. Still the web browsing is great and I use more wlan anyways. Same as I did with my previous N80ie. Just wish there were more decent phone options in the US.
Why can't we get an evil Steve shaking hands with an evil Bill? The Weekly World News has had every us president shaking hands with aliens.
I don't think this is particularly surprising, for all the Jesus Phone's flaws it offers the best mobile browsing experience. There are other handsets better for email, texting and, er, making phone calls but mobile Safari with multitouch is still the winner for surfing from where I'm standing.
Having had web enabled phones in the past, and now having an iphone, i can say you are soooo far off the mark, id be surprised if you can see it.
On my previous phones the screens were so poor, the cost of using the almost non-existant connection was so high and the interface was so laughable that i rarely used it.
Now being on an iphone, same price monthly contract ('unlimited' data included) , decent screen size, good connections and simple interface not only makes it a pleasure to use, but also means im more likely to quickly look things up, because i can, wheather i want to check somthing iv just seen on TV, or if i want to try and settle a pub argument.
Obviously i dont know what 'phone you use, but compared to any others I have used, the iPhone deffinately is something special.
Troll away, saddo!
You just don't get it do you? The iPhone may not be the best phone out there, it may not make your coffee or make love to you, but just look at the latest exhibitions ... there are more 'me too' iPhone look-alikes and swipe alikes than you can shake a stick at! They ALL want to copy the iPhone ... some may even produce better gadgets.
Give Apple, the iPhone in particular, it's due. It has woken up a sleeping industry which was content to take your dosh for very little in the way of innovation. Why, even Microsoft, that 'innovator' par excellence, has jumped on the bandwagon with it's store of applications ... just 3 years late (as usual).
Surprise, surprise ... I use an iPhone! Far from being a 'crap phone', it does exactly what I want and it does it simply and without fuss. Of course it doesn't have some features I would like (cut 'n paste) and I have to use my camera if I want decent photos, but it suits me just fine. And furthermore I don't rubbish other phones which, I'm sure, suit their owners just as well.
I surf using Opera Mini 4.1 on my BB Curve....it in no way highlights the device behind it.
Sounds like this survey is a FAIL.
Besides, they would have to look at the stats for the text-only BBC news and football pages and Avantgo-tuned feed for HitB to catch me. If they can.
Most of my BB surfing is either football scores or reading whilst I'm pooing. Interestingly, I never use my Touch to surf the interwhatsitsname.....
Paris....because her figures on her number of partners is just as crap... ;-)
What's the matter Mick? Santa didn't get you an iPhone for Christmas so now you just have to look on enviously at people who have got one?
> Spent all that money
Yeah, £99 or free on a average contract is such a lot of money these days... (guess it would be to someone still receiving pocket money from Daddy-kins).
> so have to justify it by using it all the time.
Yeah, or maybe they're just using it all the time because that's what they bought it for, and because using the internet on it is such a pleasure compared with pretty much every other device on the market.
Just look at the reports from MWC Barcelona for all the "me too" iPhone copies from every major manufacturer. Only 2 years late...
@ Paul, AC. When using Opera Mini, to some sites it sends a generic Opera Mini user agent, to others, it makes a combined Opera Mini/handset specific user agent generated by the proxy. Try it on a couple of those "what's my IP" sites, you'll see. Even when it's just the generic opera mini one though, your device is still being identified in the header seperately fromthe user agent by "X-Opera-Mini-Phone-UA=<original deviceUA" and "OperaMiniPhone = <device name>".
Maybe this is different if you've installed OM yourself rather than getting a phone with it reloaded.
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