Laura M. Holson, Contributor, Bits, New York Times

The Mobile Web: It's Not Just for Smartphones

July 18, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

The iPhone and BlackBerry are the only devices consumers are using these days to access the mobile Web?

According to AdMob, mobile surfing is far more mainstream than what many people might think.

AdMob serves ads for more than 5,000 mobile Web sites and has been compiling data about which mobile phones and wireless carriers customers use to get ads when they access the mobile Web. In a recently released report, AdMob found that less expensive phones are driving mobile Web usage as much as smartphones like Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry.

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