Google’s premise has always been making the world’s information available to everyone using the power of the internet.

However not everyone has access to the internet.

In countries such as Indonesia the primary internet access device is the mobile phone. And the users in these countries are using their phones largely to participate in social networks and keep up with the news.

However it has to be acknowledged that interacting via a small screen device has its limitations such as small screen, small processor, tricky keypads, cut and paste limitations etc..

Further, that small screen, despite the advent of the iPhone is still dam small - especially for the viewing of multimedia content such as movies and sports.

Often a much more useful experience is the 3G dongle connected into a laptop - ahhh 3G as it should be.

However, laptops are expensive and often over engineered as far as the average facebook user is concerned.

Welcome the Netbook - a device designed to work with the internet - not designed to play cutting edge Lan games for instance.

However, there are limitation with 3G as a permanent internet connection. The first is that mobile data is often expensive. The second is that as far as a Telco is concerned mobile data is network intensive.

I am proposing a good idea is to create in-home wireless entertainment hubs that manage the wireless connection and that can act as a proxy for media downloads (remembering that a Netbook is not designed for data storage).

Advantages of the hub is the control over the internet connection it affords.

For example users could “order” large multimedia downloads such as movies. Rather than use up the data connection (and therefore blocking VOIP calls etc..) the movies could download overnight when network usage is low.

I believe that we will see more and more of the humble netbook as 3G networks become the global communications default standard.