Homepage - projectcanvas.info. Mobile Internet Traffic to Grow 400% by 2015. Mobile is the future of everything internet and consumers.
This is huge when you think about it. According to a new study by British research firm Coda Research Consultancy, U.S. mobile data traffic will grow at a rate of 117% through 2015. The company estimates that mobile data revenues (not including SMS) will comprise 87% of all data revenue for carriers by 2015. Coda also estimates that the number of mobile video users will rise by 34% annually to reach 95 million in 2015.U.S. mobile handset data traffic will grow from 8 petabytes per month this year to 327 petabytes per month in 2015. That’s a 117% compound annual growth rate. A Guide to Mobile Web Design Tips and Tricks. Having a mobile-optimized web site can really make your site stand apart from the pack.
Even though smartphones like the iPhone and Google Android devices can display "the full web," having a web page formatted for smaller screens and with features that can take advantage of a touch screen, geolocation, or address book functionality can make the mobile web browsing experience that much better. Even just a few years ago, optimizing websites for mobile browsers was a painful and difficult process, in part because of the limitations of most mobile browsers. Today, thanks to the proliferation of WebKit (which powers the browsers on the iPhone, Android and webOS devices, with BlackBerry expected to join the mix next year), it's much easier to decide on a strategy for making your website pop on mobile platforms.
We've put together a toolkit of resources for the designer and non-designer alike to get you started.