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Designing and Developing Web Technologies on the Mobile Web.

The Smartphone Browser Landscape

Tuesday December 21, 2010

A List Apart just published a well done article summarizing the current state of smartphone web browsers. It's definitely worth reading and referring back to when doing your browser testing.

Posted in Browsers

Smartphone Market Share Numbers from Nielsen

Monday December 6, 2010

Early this month, Nielsen released some interesting research about the US smartphone market. Their survey shows that nearly 30% of mobile phone users have a smartphone. If you read tech blogs all day you might think that number is a bit low, but it shows how much growth the mobile web still has to go. 

Survey participants that plan on upgrading to a smartphone in the next year clearly preferred either iOS or Android devices. Either way it's great news for mobile web designers, as both have great browser support. It's still a great time to get going with mobile web design.

Posted in Reports & Stats