Ever since I was drafted, I do a fair amount of web browsing from a mobile device, and most of time using a 3G cellphone. More recently, I’ve been using my iPod Touch too.

The most limiting factors on a mobile device are bandwidth and screen real estate.

The trouble is that most web content are crammed with advertisements. To read a 8 kb paragraph of text, I’ve to load, and wait while 150 kb worth of content I don’t care about loads. After that’s done, I’ve to zoom in, pan, and maybe squint to actually look for what I want, interspaced with even more advertising. All of these contribute to a painful mobile web experience.

The proliferation of internet-enabled devices and maturing of various wireless technologies means that the number of people that view web content on mobile devices would continue increasing in the next few years. Web developers and designers alike ought to keep this group of audience in mind.

As for me, I yearn wistfully for the web of old, before advertisers and penny hungry webmasters polluted the web.