Mobile Web News: Week of July 30, 2007

August 7, 2007 on 1:53 pm | In Mobile Web News |

Today’s High-End Phones Are Tomorrow’s Basic Phones
GigaOm recently had a conversation with Nokia’s chief strategist and chief technology officer Tero Ojanperä, who said that the advanced features of Nokia’s “N Series” uberphones will be on most low-end phones in three years. The N Series phones are loaded with capability for web access and multimedia playback. Understandably, Tero’s prediction implies a massive increase in mobile web usage in the same period. Which is just what all the other signs are pointing to…

Google Will Soon Reside in Your Cell Phone
The Wall Street Journal says that Google has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get into mobile phones. It’s trying to convince carriers like T-Mobile and Verizon to preload Google applications like Gmail into the phones they give plan subscribers.

Google is seeping into the cell phone world, but you can bet that soon the seepage will turn into a flood!

Feature: The GO2 Network Mobile Web Site Network
Want fast and free information on many useful things viewable on your cell phone? Try the GO2 network of mobile web sites. This is a collection of more than 130 topic-specific sites on the weather, colleges, restaurants, movies, travel, driving directions, phone numbers and more. Examples of specific sites are go2 Movies®, go2 Dining™, go2 Golf™, go2 Travel™.

Don’t wait for the mobile web to leave you behind: get on the bus NOW!