mobile web is internet access for mobile devices such as cellphones, pda's or blackberries. such a device must be equipped with a mobile webbrowser which can be either a program developed by the device's manufacturer or something commen like the Netfront Browser as used on many asian phones like NEC for example or the new mobile Opera Browser which can be installed on many actual cellphones and pda's.For mobile web there are standards similar to the normal web (html). basically the following are used at the moment:WAP 1.1/2.0cHTML, imodeThe original WAP standard was text only without color or images. WAP 2.0, cHTML (which stands for compact html) and imode have quite much in common as they all are based on some html standard.Websites optimized for mobile use are mostly written in one of these standards but generally all can be accessed if WAP 2.0 is supported.i-mode was developed by NTT Docomo a Japanese cellphone provider and it's basically just a variant of cHTML. i-mode is quite popular in Japan since the 1990 and also available in many European countries.With the current GSM, GPRS and other 2. Generation cellphone standards, mobile internet is still very slow so it takes really much time to download images or sounds or to access e-mail or websites. But with the 3rd generation UMTS cellphone standard which was launched in Japan in 2001 and recently in most European countries and is soon to be established in wider parts of the US the mobile internet might get as fast as a slow ADSL or cable connection, making it possible to access the mobile internet almost as fast as via a normal computer. Another interesting thing might be mobile TV which is already available in Japan and South Korea and to a certain extend also in the European UMTS networks of Vodafone and T-Mobile.Recently there are also talks about using WiMax and WiFi instead of UMTS for accessing the internat via mobile devices as those standards might be much cheaper and also might provide a much higher bandwidth. Plus they're already being used by most wireless computer devices...So what's in it for us in the future?more speed, more services to be used online, more implementations of GPS based services as newer cellphones already have GPS recievers.Well, sooner or later almost everything can be done with a cellphone and wire-based internet might some day get obsolete...However, as already mentioned I don't really know how far the US cellphone companies are with implementing all these new standards and how many of the new 3G cellphones are already available there...
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