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What Sites Do Mobile Web Surfers Use?

A new study by found that only about 5% of mobile phone users actually surf the Web and when they do they access information like weather, email and sports data. They also check their email. Forbes.com reports on the study's findings:

Mobile-research firm Telephia, which surveyed mobile phone users in June, reports that Yahoo!'s mail, search and driving directions sites were the second, sixth and tenth most popular destinations, respectively. The most popular site: The Weather Channel, presumably for cell-phone users who hadn't yet left their homes or offices. Other highly ranked sites: Microsoft's Hotmail, Google's search page and The Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN.

The screen is small and mobile phone surfing can be slow so it may be a while before people use their phones to surf the web for large blocks of time.

Tags: mobile-phones | cell-phones

Posted on September 12, 2005
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