.mobi Mobiles to have .Mobi as default? Answers?

[binaryman]

I checked on what has been said in the past by backers of .Mobi to see if any clues could be found on whether .Mobi will be the defaut on mobile phones. This is what I found.

Rick Fant director of mobile services at Microsoft and also boardmember and spokesman of Mtld said that the new company, mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd "will produce a series of style guides and policies that Fant said he expected to come in the form of a manual and snippets of downloadable sample code."

But reporter Kieren McCarthy also quoted Fant as "keen to stress that .mobi is not and will not become a standards body."

"This is a pick-it-and-go service," explained Fant. "I will fight any attempt to make it a standards body." And, he said, it will be operating system neutral.
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2321
July 2005

Whilst Neil Edwards CEO of Mtld had this to say:
Edwards also claimed that consumers won't necessarily have to key in the actual characters - .mobi - when visiting a site. That's because browsers from Access, Nokia and Openwave will automatically default to assuming that the user wants the .mobi domain, not the .com site.

There's no indication of how soon such browsers will be loaded onto mobile handsets.
May 2006
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=31507

 

[RegFee]

What does "a standards body" mean?

 

[newton]

Personally I don't see a button on devices to enable sites to default to .mobi by the manufacturers, nor do I see it becoming the default standard for mobiles, much to .mobi's chagrin.

There is however nothing to stop the 3rd party software coders writing an add-on or feature in the mobile browsers to enable domains to default to .mobi.

Oops .. Sorry Fred was typing when you edited your post

 

[dochlaggie]

wap button on phones

Everyone probably already knows this, i rarely use a mobile phone.
But if I could surf the net and check emails & this was reasonalby priced and the pages displayed correctly,I would use my phone more.

My son's very old Nokia has a wap button.
My son is 23 and has just finished a degree as an electrical engineer. he came home and saw me going through mobi lists , had a read and told me that it wont work and to forget it.
I had to laugh as he was a bit upset that I had heard of mobi and he had never heard of it.
Oh by the way he never uses the wap button on the phone because sites dont display correctly and the huge cost of data transfer here in Australia.
Just my 2 cents worth

 

[iNod]

Cell phone internet is still new folks Give it time, when the internet first came out it was expensive too, so was the car. But they all decreased.

In time we will see. Maybe somebody just make a cell with there own browser and have it just use .mobi

- Steve