3G WWAN for mobile workers

June 16, 2007

Nextel iDEN tethering to a laptop phone connection was at about 10 kbps speeds. Less than the average home 30-40 kbps modem connection but not much worse considering the wide Nextel coverage area. Typical bandwidth is 0.5-1 Mbps depending on the time of day. Dynamic browser sensing for three tiers of content presentation for mobile/desktop web could work like:

Essential mobile 2G Java browsing. 2-3 small images max, simple table, list.

Full mobile: For Blackberry / Opera class browsers on 3G. 3-4 small images, pretty table, list, forms. HTML+CSS+images < 150kB ~ 6 seconds render time.

Full desktop: often not rendered properly on the mobile browser.