People are using their mobile devices (most of the time it’s a mobile phone) to search on Google and other search engines, more and more. I know I do a lot of searching on Google using my TMobile SideKick 3 - which uses the EDGE network and if fast enough to satisfy me most of the time.

I can get what I need out of Google from my mobile phone and I’m not alone according the Wireless Report, which I quoted from, below.

So, have you increased the usage of the mobile web on your handset this year? If you’ve bought a newer, faster phone with EDGE (Cingular, T-Mobile) or EV-DO (Sprint, Verizon, Alltel), you’ve really got some decent speed in your pocket — and it’s only going to get faster in 2007. Cellphones? Hogwash — we’ll all be using mobile computers in our pockets soon – ones that “make phone calls”.

Interesting. I’m not alone in thinking the Ultra Mobile Computers will become the dominant device (and maybe have a phone built into it too) in a year or two. It’s one thing to be able to read my Gmail and look at my Webmetricsguru.com blog stats from my TMobile SideKick 3, along with taking photos of my paintings and immediately posting them on my Art Blog. It’s quite another thing to write the blog post and post it from my Ultra Mobile PC - which is what I really want to do ….. the thing my SideKick won’t allow me to do.

In other words, we want to continue searching on our PC’s in our Pocket and I think that’s where it’s all going in the next two years - and one symptom of that is we’re executing more searches from our mobile phones. It’s only a matter of time till we’ll want and expect to have the full power of desktop or laptop on the mobile device as well.

Link: Wireless Report