2007: Finally, The Year of the Mobile Phone?

Around 2004, cell phone usage worldwide was 1,752,183,600. As of December, 2006, 1,091,730,861 had internet access.

In other words, the global mobile phone usage 2 years ago is higher than the global internet penetration at present. Phones haven't stopped selling in the last 2 years.

Maybe 2007 is the year of the Mobile Phone. Manufacturers are demonstrating more interest in the market, which does also include internet access depending on the infrastructure available.

Maybe that's why Yahoo redesigned a Web search to run on mobile phones:

... Yahoo said it had developed oneSearch, a new mobile search service that give phone users instant answers. OneSearch redesigns search to offer potential answers as immediate search results instead of how computer-based Web search returns lists of search results.

Yahoo is seeking to outpace archrival Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research), which dominates the market for computer Web search, by being the fastest to win over consumers to its mobile phone Web search and related advertising system. Yahoo will offer mobile search software directly to phone users to download as well...

And maybe Motorola sees media, Internet as '07 priorities will affect that. And maybe this would explain why Microsoft is challenging Apple's ability to produce an iPod phone.

Maybe 2007 will be the year for Mobile Phones.