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D E C E M B E R 14, 2010
Smartphone Browser Landscape
by P E T E R - P A U L K O C H
Published in: User Interface Design, Mobile, Mobile Design, Mobile Development
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Users expect websites to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support
will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their
skill set or risk losing clients.
How do you make websites mobile compatible? The answer is obvious: By testing them on all
mobile phones, and by solving the problems you encounter. But, that’s a useless answer. It’s
impossible to test your designs on every mobile phone out there. Within the mobile phone
landscape, there are at least ten operating systems (OSs) and fifteen browsers that require
consideration. Mobile devices are expensive, and not every web developer can afford to buy
five to ten of them. Testing “on all mobile phones” is impossible for most web developers.
In this article, I’ll give you an overview of the mobile web market, as well as phone platforms
and their browsers, so that you can decide which mobile devices to test on. Then, we’ll look at
how to set up a mobile test bed.
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Most web designers and
developers (not to
mention the entire
blogosphere) fall
squarely in the high-end
market. A cultural bias
exists against OSs aimed
at any other market. As
a result, most people
focus on the struggle
between iOS and
Android, and ignore the
rest. This has to change.
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