The global mobile phone users increased possible future challenges PC

A recent survey shows that mobile phones may soon become a challenge for personal computers as the main Internet platform.

A survey released by lpsos last week showed that 28% of the world's mobile phone users have been browsing the Internet on wireless devices, an increase of more than $25% in late 2004.

The increase in the number of mobile Internet users is mainly driven by the age of 35 users.

Japan's mobile Internet users grew in the first place, 92% of Japanese mobile phone users in 2005 at least once a month on the phone or over the Internet to download e-mail.

About 4/10 Japanese adults this year using a mobile phone on the net, in 2003 rose by more than second 50%. growth in the UK is here, there are 29% mobile phone users use mobile phone access to the Internet, then the United States and South Korea, the proportion of 26% mobile phone users.

The study suggests that great convenience and fast Internet speeds may change the proportion of Internet and mobile Internet users.

Ipsos's Brian Cruikshanks said: "in the long run, many of the current PC centric network activity may be replaced by a mobile phone or a combination of mobile phone equipment."

The study also notes that wireless devices are increasing, such as financial transactions, entertainment downloads, and sending and receiving short messages, e-mail, and digital images.

Cruikshanks said: in the global economic environment, access to the Internet with wireless handheld devices is no longer a new thing for consumers. It's becoming a habit."