Who spends more time surfing the Web from their smartphone, the British or Americans? According to a recent survey from M:Metrics, Americans are using smartphones to check out what's happening on the Internet almost twice as much as our friends across the Atlantic (4.6 hours compared to 2.5 hours per month). One of the biggest reasons for more Web surfing in the U.S. is that more Americans have "unlimited" data plans. Interestingly, M:Metrics also draws a link to the greater popularity of smartphones with QWERTY keyboards in the U.S. as a reason for the higher usage rates.
So what are the most popular web sites for people to visit on their smartphones?
In the U.S., it's all about the shopping for previously owned goods and connecting with friends:
- Craigslist.org (1 hour 38 minutes per month)
- eBay.com (1 hour 25 minutes per month)
- MySpace.com (1 hour 25 minutes per month)
- Facebook.com (1 hour 24 minutes per month)
- Go.com (1 hour 7 minutes)
In Great Britain, people are also getting their fill of social networking and keeping up to speed on the latest happenings around the globe:
- Facebook.com (1 hour 44 minutes per month)
- Three.co.uk (1 hour 15 minutes per month)
- Sky.com (1 hour 15 minutes per month)
- Live.com (1 hour 11 minutes per month)
- BBC.co.uk (48 minutes per month)
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-Paul Loeffler
For a good web surfing experience we need a BIG LANDSCAPE SCREEN on Treos. Look at the sales of IPhone e HTC Touch and you will realize this.
Come on Palm, at least give us one Treo model with a big 320x480 screen (TX size)!
Posted by: Tam | May 27, 2008 at 06:06 PM
I like to check out news sites mostly - CNN.com is pretty nice to use and I also like to check out the Onion. Some sites still aren't really set up to be viewed on a cellphone.
Posted by: Amy | May 27, 2008 at 08:17 PM
Facebook is better from a phone than MySpace. It would be nice if you could upload pictures though. Also would love to be able to view more profiles.
Posted by: Gregory Ryan | May 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Who in the world is spending time on Go.com...I haven't even heard of it before and then after looking at it, yikes it seems worthless!
Posted by: Christopher | May 30, 2008 at 07:34 AM
CNN.com!!!! I need to keep up with all of the politcal nonsense covered by American media.
Posted by: Erica Kriess | May 30, 2008 at 07:27 PM
I am still waiting for a Palm TX with Cell Phone. This could be a great device for surfing the WEB.
Posted by: AndAl | June 03, 2008 at 05:42 PM