iPhone dominates mobile web surfing stats

The Register reports on mobile web access statistics:

The iPhone dominated the market for mobile web surfing last month, and there were relatively healthy showings from Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Mobile.

Net Applications found Apple's handheld status symbol accounted for 66.61 per cent of mobile traffic browsing the web during February.

The phone's nearest competitor was Microsoft's Windows Mobile, with 6.91 per cent of traffic.

Making a strong play was Google's Android, which tied with Symbian for third place with 6.15 per cent of traffic. While that's a long way behind the iPhone, it's not bad considering Android is just over a year old and Symbian has been in the market for longer.

I have found myself using my iPhone to access web sites frequently, although it certainly hasn't replaced my desktop computer . . . but it came in extremely handy during the period between my old computer going black and the new one becoming available.

Even though I have a data plan (which I didn't have on my old Treo), I still do most of my iPhone web surfing on wifi, not on 3G . . . old habits die hard, I guess. I don't want to receive one of those astronomical cell phone bills for going over my data limit.