Frank Palinkas
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:13:08 -0700
If I may add to David's info, please check these sixteen mobile web articles/tutorials on dev.opera.com. They may be of help: http://dev.opera.com/articles/mobile/ Frank M. Palinkas QA Documentation/Technical Writer Opera Software ASA, Oslo, Norway http://www.opera.com/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/accessibility/ http://frank.helpware.net On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:41 PM, David Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a slight update to this discussion, Opera has just had a timely release > of our Mobile Browser Report [1]. > 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] > ******************************************************************* > > > David Storey > > Chief Web Opener, > Product Manager Opera Dragonfly, > Consumer Product Manager Opera Core, > Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group member > > Consumer Product Management & Developer Relations > Opera Software ASA > Oslo, Norway > > Mobile: +47 94 22 02 32 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog: http://my.opera.com/dstorey > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > 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] *******************************************************************