Shocking News: Mobile Web is Slower Than Desktop
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I was just reading an article on FierceMobileContent that announced that mobile Web access is slower than Web access from a desktop computer. This, I must say, was not a terribly earth-shattering revelation for those of us who frequently use our mobile devices to browse the Internet.
According to the study referenced in the article, mobile Web access is 30% slower than the average Internet connection used from a desktop computer. This seems a bit optimistic to me. Most of the people I know have DSL in their homes (3.5 Mbps appears to be the norm these days here in L.A.) and I don’t get anything like two-thirds of that when I’m out and about with my iPhone. This is probably why the YouTube app, App Store access, and other cool iPhone features only work when connected to the Net via WiFi. A wise call on Apple’s part, as slow network speeds would suck all the coolness right out of these apps.
All this is to say that waiting for sites to load on your phone can be slow and tedious. And this is the reason that Skweezer is still a great product, despite the proliferation of high-end handsets that promise the World Wide Web at your fingertips. Yes, your new phone might have a great browser and gigabytes of memory… but that won’t matter if the sites you visit take forever to load. Skweezer makes Web pages load faster and easier to read on any mobile device—from Paleolithic circa-1998 flip-phones to the iPhone 3G. And it’s completely free. Check Skweezer out at www.skweezer.com and see for yourself if it makes browsing on the mobile Web easier and better.
Posted by Mark Sieve