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"China’s mobile Internet users may more than double within five years as smartphones that can browse the Web and download music become more affordable, Lee Kai-fu, the former head of Google Inc.’s China division, said.

The number of people accessing the Internet on their mobile devices in China may grow to 800 million within three to five years, from about 300 million now, Lee said today in an interview at the Beijing headquarters of Innovation Works, the technology business incubator he set up after leaving Google.

The price of a smartphone running Google’s Android system is likely to drop to about 1,500 yuan this year and 750 yuan in 2011, making such devices affordable to more people, Lee said."

Full article at Bloomberg

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