Week 10: Quinn, S. (2008). “Who found my MoJo”
New mobile technologies are taking the world by storm. The recent release of the Nokia N95 and Apple Iphone has begun a new trend in accessing the Internet from phones.
The trend has yet to hit Australia. Countries like the UK and the USA have better speeds and deals available for users. The weekly reading mentioned that ‘In the US, the fee for unlimited data is about $70 a month… Australians pay about $67 a month for 250 Mb of data a month, or about 8Mb a day.’
The N95 has an internal storage capacity of 8GB. The average PC 10 years ago had about 1GB. Australian mobile users should be able to use their phones to the full extent. Even a new but average phone like the Nokia 6220 has is sold with a 1GB memory card, and the option to expand.
Australia needs to catch up with the rest of the world. Websites like Youtube.com or myspace.com – that have millions of visitors each day – take extra time and space to download. The amount of video and graphic information people are consuming is only increasing, and networks like Optus or Telstra need to consider this. They could make a lot of extra money through mobile internet.
