David Storey
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:51:55 -0700
A short digest: 9 out of the 10 top handsets in the US are Blackberry, with 4 out of 10 in the UK. The only other country that featured a Blackberry device was Germany with 2 out of 10.
Globally, apart from the US and UK, Nokia dominates along with Sony Ericsson. Samsung is strong is South Africa.
Motorola are conspicuous by their absence (they only feature once in the top ten model list for the top 10 countries where Opera Mini is the most popular). Palm is now also absent. They used to be strong in the UK and US, and possibly still are with business users (I see them a lot at conferences still), but the lack of a JVM by default hampers the install rate of Java based browsers.
In June Opera Mini had 14.5 million unique users (Summer months are typically quiet due to summer holidays), and 3.2 billion web pages.
The list of phones should give you a good idea of what kind of phones to test on and design for, as millions of users are represented by these models.
Japan is a popular mobile market, but Opera doesn't supply Opera Mini there, so there is no data. We only distribute Opera Mobile (our biggest partner KDDI - second biggest operator in Japan - calls this PC Site Viewer) in Japan due to the proliferation of high end handsets and fast data rates.
[1] http://www.opera.com/mobile_report/2008/06/ On 21 Jul 2008, at 16:53, Ted Drake wrote:
FYI:David Storey is one of the lead engineers of Opera Browser. It’s a rare honor to have a browser architect reflect on the industry in mailing lists. Do you see similar responses from Firefox, Safari, or IE architects?So, keep his suggestions in mind, he knows what he’s talking about. I just wanted to make sure people realized the relevance of his comments. You may want to go back and restore any of his messages that were deleted and save them for future use.Ted ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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