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With T-mobile set to announce the launch  of the first Android phone today, it would be interesting to have a quick glance at how mobiles have begun dominating the world of web. The boom has come with the advent of smartphones that have turned things around and today, the number of cell-phones is way beyond those of the personal computers. The biggest advantage these phones have attached to them is the mobility that they offer, the idea of portable is something that has turned to reality with these gadgets and they evolve, becoming smaller and more powerful.

The hardware isn’t something that should have our focus at present (by that I don’t mean it’s not important); it lies more at how a vast majority has adopted to Mobile Internet. The numbers have grown rapidly in the US at large with a net penetration measuring just under 16%.

iPhone triggered what we may rightly call an evolution in the mobile world and Android comes to join the force (forget they are rivals in business). The trend has created such a scenario that even existing giants in the cellular world like, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung have been pushed to come out with more powerful devices.

Andy Rubin pointed out a few features in his blog post about the future of mobile and it was pretty interesting to read at how the mobile has spread across the world in less than 16 years (compared to what took landlines a century). Greg Sterling also reported the frequency at which mobiles are used to perform search on a weekly basis and it rose to as high as 26%. But that’s only for the current time period, with the advent of a larger number of phones with more powerful features the number is set to rise by leaps and bounds.

And Android that comes with Google’s claims to open source the entire mobile industry definitely sounds like a huge boost to advance the mobile trend further and benefit everyone alike. Now all that  remains to be seen here is how successful Android gets, once it receives a positive from the market, it is bound to attract various other OEMs lining up to have their hands at it (that shouldn’t be a problem as Android is all for the take).

I wouldn’t be surprised if in less than a decade the entire concept of the Internet experience gets completely and absolutely mobile. Will you be?