Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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Don't you get the same effect by just having a wifi compatible phone in a home wifi area?
Or am I not understanding that technology right?
If your phone is wi-fi compatible, it's the same effect for browsing the web, but not for the actual phone functions (like calling or texting).
It's the same market-speak as TMobile's UMA technology, except that this MicroCell box from AT&T emits a cellular signal and does all of the cellular -> TCP conversion so any phone is capable of connecting to it within 5k sq ft, whereas UMA requires a chip in the phone to do that and a WiFi signal, which is usually much more limited in range. So it's a totally different technology. Don't let market-speak invade your mind, it's bad for you.
Kind of like how you let 5k sq. feet invade your mind? That's not nearly as big as it sounds.
James, UMA that's the one. I couldn't remember the acronym.
This, UMA, technology seems to make much more sense. If you already have wifi surely it makes much more sense to just upgrade the phone. If you don't have wifi... spend the $150 on that and have the convenience of wifi internet too.
T-mobile should encourage subscribers to open their wifi networks as hotspots. Perhaps offering a discount on their plans so long as the hotspot are used x times per month or at least once by another user??