As of the end of June, only 1.8 million of the 12.4 million i-mode subscribers surf the small screen. J-Phone recorded about 50 percent of its revenues from nonvoice applications, but it doesn't show on its sheets how much of that came from Web surfing. The killer app of wireless, in other words, is not Web surfing. According to InfoCom Research, only 26.4 percent of users buy i-mode phones to view home pages. Broken down by sexes, men tend to buy more for voice, women more for email.
Further research needs to take into account the frequency of Web usage.
Someone might try it out once at first, but that does not a small-screen surfer make. Send us your feedback via email or form . All Rights Reserved.