Mobile Website Designing: Platform By Platform

The mobile landscape is a complex and sometimes confusing place to be. Here we'll take look at the most popular platforms, operating systems and app stores and offers some quick and easy tips to making the most out of the opportunities they offer.

Around 1.2 billion phones were sold last year, 174 million of which were smartphones. Symbian devices count for nearly 47 per cent of this market (with Nokia making up the majority of this figure), but they're losing market share to both Apple and Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind Blackberry, which now have 14.4 per cent and 19.9 per cent respectively.

The fastest growing markets last year were Apple and Android, which grew by 6.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent respectively.

Smartphones enable consumers to download apps, and now there are app stores everywhere, courtesy of device manufacturers (eg Nokia's Ovi Store); OS developers (Android Market Place; Windows Marketplace for Mobile); operators (Vodafone's 360 Store; Orange's Application Shop) and Independents (GetJar; Handango). All are competing fiercely for eyeballs, clicks and sales.

At the moment, the Apple App Store is the undisputed champion; in January, it announced that three billion apps had been downloaded over the last 18 months. Others are catching up, though, with Nokia now proclaiming that it has broken the 1.5million app sales per day mark as of March.

The UK mobile scene According to the AdMob report on smartphone usage trends for January, 75 per cent of requests came from a combination of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The next most popular were Nokia and HTC on 4.8 per cent and 4.7 per cent respectively.

With Apple firmly set with the top two handset models, it's left to HTC's Hero and Dream and Nokia's N95 to complete the top five UK smartphone handsets….Read more.

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Mobile Website Development for Effective Design of Your Brand

When the mobile web was launched sometime in 2009, the number of consumers has surged since then. This phenomenon has modified the attitudes and mindsets of internet users. Carrying their internet-enabled phones, users have unlimited access to the web, performing a multitude of activities that their devices allow them to do. This web giant, as it is coming to be, has a lot to offer, both to individual users, businesses, big and small. With multiple browsers, users can expect to use them just like they use the traditional browsers. Offshore mobile website development service comes in small packages, fitted to smartphones and other handheld devices. Catch this internet fever and don’t miss out on opportunities for your business to be carried anywhere, anytime. The mobile internet usage is growing and will continue to surge.

Mobile marketing strategies are targeting consumers on the go. These are the people who use their mobile devices to get their internet activities going. As a website owner, you can benefit from the mobile web immensely by developing a mobile site. Define your business goals in using the mobile initiative alongside determining your target audience. What can you offer to your site visitors? This is the basic question you can address in developing your mobile strategy. The design should effectively pin down what your target market needs. If you have a regular website and enjoying an edge, you can have it downsized for readability in a mobile platform. A skilled developer is all you need to make your mobile site cloned for small mobile devices.

The mobile site to be developed will be the mini-version of the regular website your business has. There are several approaches that your professional mobile site builder can use. The goal is to keep the site supported across a diverse platform, readable, usable and effective in providing a good user experience.…Read more:

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