nytimes.com artikel:

Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic

By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: January 14, 2008
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Of all the iPhone’s features, none had reviewers gushing more than its Internet browser. It was the first cellphone browser that promised something resembling the experience of surfing the Internet on a PC. Santa helped deliver on that promise.

On Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic from any other type of mobile device, according to internal Google data made available to The New York Times. A few days later, iPhone traffic to Google fell below that of devices powered by the Nokia-backed Symbian operating system but remained higher than traffic from any other type of cellphone...

krass, da iphones nur ca. 2% weltweit an smartphones ausmachen, wenn es hochkommt, und symbian ca. 63% aller smartphones... das zeigt wie hoch der anteil derer ist die ihr iphone auch wirklich zum surfen benutzen...

"The data is striking because the iPhone, an Apple product, accounts for just 2 percent of smartphones worldwide, according to IDC, a market research firm. Phones powered by Symbian make up 63 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, while those powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile have 11 percent and those running the BlackBerry system have 10 percent."

link zum neuen google "grand prix" service: www.google.com/ig/i:

"“The reason no one considered this seriously is that the Web layer on mobile devices was terrible,” he said. Google has taken advantage of the capabilities of the iPhone browser to create a product, internally called Grand Prix, that it says provides easy access to many of the company’s services, including search, Gmail, Reader and Picasa.

Google, which developed the first version of Grand Prix in six weeks, is introducing a new version on Monday, just six weeks after the first one. That is a speed of development not previously possible on mobile phones, he said."

google "grand prix link nochmal:

hasse es wenn ein link nicht zum klicken ist, also versuch ich es richtig zu machen... gerade mit einem mobilen gerät...

cheers und moin...