The Evolution of Mobile Browsing

THE EVOLUTION OF MOBILE BROWSING 1983 The first mobile telephone is introduced 1990 Texting makes its debut 1991 Second generation mobile broadband-2G-becomes available 1994– Bluetooth technology first appears The first commercial mobile browser-PocketWeb 1994- for the Apple Newtown PDA-is developed The first HTML browser for the 1997- </> Palm OS 1.0, called HandWeb, appears PocketMail, which allowed email access through a mobile 1998 connection or by being held next to a landline, is introduced The first BlackBerry device, 1999 the Blackberry 850, hits the market with email capabilities ull 2003- 3G appears, providing faster mobile data services The first BlackBerry smartphone is released, 2003- offering web browsing capabilities The first iPhone hits the market, expanding the 2007- capabilities and popularity of smartphones ll 2009- 4G capabilities debut, providing the fastest mobile browsing thus far 2015- Google releases a new ranking algorithm that values mobile-friendly websites in search results 2016 Mobile browsing overtakes desktop browsing in popularity 2017- Google gets ready to release the mobile-first index, which treats mobile web pages as the primary pages to index, rather than their desktop counterparts PROVIDED BY: PENNINGTON CREATIVE PENNINGTONCREATIVE.COM Sources: gcn.com/articles/2013/05/30/gcn30-timeline-mobile.aspx www.teco.edu/pocketweb/ gcn.com/articles/1999/07/23/with-pocketmail-email-access-is-phone-call-away.aspx en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_broadband en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_browser www.mobilephonehistory.co.uk/history/3g.php www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/mobile-web-browsing-desktop-smartphones-tablets searchengine land.com/library/google/google-mobile-friendly-update