Mobile Web a Throwback to the 90's

Researchers at Nielsen Norman Group put people to the test to try to look up everything from movie listings to product reviews on their handsets. The conclusion: The mobile web is about as tough to navigate as traditional websites were 15 years ago.

A study to be released Monday by the researchers — they’re product “usability” experts -- found that the average success rate in completing various tasks on the mobile Internet is just 59%, compared to an average success rate of 80% for websites on a regular PC.

Source: Technology Live via Textually.org

Why I blog this: Interesting to see that the experience of the Internet on the go is still so bad. Speaks for apps that are handset AND task specific. At least until mobile sites become commonplace and handsets are actually usable for surfing the web.

Looking forward to reading the report.