[LINK] Local iPhone users devour content

[Tom Worthington]

At 11:33 AM 5/09/2008, David Boxall wrote:
>The Telcos must be raking it in:
>http://www.itnews.com.au/News/83875,local-iphone-users-devour-content.aspx
> > Aussie iPhone owners are consuming over 2MB of data per session,
> > dwarfing existing mobile web and even some desktop session usage stats.

One issue is that the iPhone doesn't use the "handheld" formatting 
option built into web standards.

So even if a web designer has carefully provided a special low 
bandwidth version of the web pages, using smaller images and the 
like, the iPhone doesn't use it. There is a work around suggested by 
Apple, but this will not work for web pages which assume well behaved 
devices 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/03/automatically-adjusting-web-pages-for.html>.



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