My experiences with mobile internet have been relatively recent, as of this date, with it having been necessitated by an interruption of my regular internet. Having a smartphone handy, not one I use, I was able to connect by going to a location I could reach WiFi. Then the difference became apparent.
The thing is I had not realized how many people now exclusively access the internet via their smartphones. It even seems like for some that the desktop computer, even laptop, are becoming more office equipment as the smartphone is replacing the portability of the laptop and certainly takes up a lot less space than a desktop.
There are many, though not all, sites with mobile versions, even some with multiple versions depending on the mobile device you are using.
With the proliferation of smartphones and an increase in what is the standard size, like it doesn't seem too long ago people were using flip-phones, and also an increase in screen resolutions, that line between mobile and desktop sites is diminishing. A 1024x600 screen resolution could be found on a netbook several years ago and now that is near the lower end of smartphone screen resolutions. If a netbook could access desktop sites and smartphones are more regularly coming with laptop screen resolutions, is there really a mobile internet?
My 4.5 inch screen Android phone is certainly for mobile only internet. But it is a dinosaur probably to a lot of people now, and it takes even less time today for dinosaurs to go extinct. With an increase in screen resolutions and the proliferation of smartphones, is the internet really a desktop world or have smartphones dominated? If not today, it won't be long before the mobile internet is the internet, period.
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