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iPhone is for Play and Bold is for Business.

August 31, 2008

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With the new (and hot) Apple iPhone on the market, web designers might be considering what they should do to accommodate the fast growing audience of iPhones users.

In a nutshell: probably not too much.

The iPhone web browser, is Apples’ Safari and it reads any web pages – even table-based websites! Gasp! Web standards zealots around the world are eating crow now.

Anyway …

It will come down to what kind of site you are running; I think that most websites will not be the target of iPhone users while on the go. My guess, is that it will be limited to:

  • Social networking sites.
  • News sites.
  • Mapping applications.

At the end of the day, surfing the web on hand held devices will always be limited by the small screens. Though the iPhone has a kick-ass browser and all, I think the nerd-euphoria will pass in time when people realize that surfing the Web on a tiny device ain’t much fun.

… Especially with those heavy data cost!

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What about the new Blackberry Bold?

The new Bold from Rim has a lot of smartphone gadgetry that make nerds happy:

  • Camera
  • MP3 player
  • Better Web browser

But I don’t think these extra capabilities will really be that important for most Blackberry users. … They just need to send emails easily and quickly.

So for most web designers, I don’t think you should be so concerned about the Bold, because the Bold is for business and not for surfing the Web.

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com