Web is going on mobile

It’s estimated that the internet has around 1.5 billion users. It’s an impressive sounding statistic. Until you learn that, in December, the number of connections to mobile devices worldwide reached four billion, a figure that represents 60% of the world’s population.

These are significant numbers for anyone who runs a website or blog. As mobile devices become more sophisticated and offer far better web browsing experiences, it becomes increasingly likely that users will be accessing web sites and applications from behind a mobile, not just a desktop or laptop computer.

Finnish mobile giant Nokia launched its first touch enabled device in the UK in December.BlackBerry first touch-screen smartphone, the Storm, was released in November. But it’s hampered by its lack of Wi-Fi and a horrible interface. Glofiish, HTC and Palm have all come up with their own post-iPhone take on mobiles. But it’s the T-Mobile G1 - the ‘Google phone’ - that attracted the most attention on its release last year.

The first generation G1 is less sleek than the iPhone and its keys are comically tiny. Its main attraction is that it uses Google’s operating system, Android, which allows anyone to design and distribute ‘widgets’ for the phone.

Ofcourse,Google already provides mobile versions of its products, including search, Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube. And in February it introduced Google Latitude, which allows users to see their friends’ locations (or the locations of their mobiles, at least).