iPhone nabs 59% of smartphone 'net traffic, 43% of mobile web traffic

One other thing to take into consideration with these figures is that mobile browsing is more likely from the non-business user. Does this point to iPhone still not being fully accepted by the business community?

I feel that this points to the fact that many iPhone/iPod touch users feel comfortable going to websites in full and not modified down low content versions.

All this means is that AT&T will start charging us more for owning and using an iPhone on their networks. :(

I think it's also because the iPhone plans have always required you to have internet access. If people have it they will use it. When my wife and I got our smartphones from T-Mobile internet access was an option which we chose not to get.

Just goes to show you that the iPhone DOES make it easier to use the web on your mobile device. Those other handsets sell more, but users aren't browsing with them.

The Pre is poised to take a huge share of this, however, because as we learned yesterday, the whole thing is basically a browser, so it's relying a lot more on web traffic.

I disagree with AdMob's suggestion that it is a phase. Having owned a number of other smartphones, I can confidently say that surfing the web is such a pain in the 'posterior' that I would not bother doing it most of the time. By comparison, surfing on the iPhone is actually quite pleasant. Also, the vast number of iPhone applications and the incredible degree of market penetration that they experience (thanks to the app store) far out-shadows the applications available for all the other mobile platforms. So if this really was a "phase" that would taper as applications became available, we would have seen it by now!