Cell Phones and the Internet

I found this statement quite remarkable.

Is this going to be a world wide trend? Will the instant gratification of using our cell phone to access internet information become commonplace in the future?

If so how is cell phone technology being developed to encompass this growing audience?

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Many telephones offer Instant Messenger services for simple, easy texting. Mobile phones have Internet service (e.g. NTT DoCoMo's i-mode), offering text messaging via e-mail in Japan, South Korea, China, and India. In Europe, 30–40 per cent of internet access is via mobile telephone. Most mobile internet access is much different from computer access, featuring alerts, weather data, e-mail, search engines, instant messages, and game and music downloading; most mobile internet access is hurried and short.