Ready for the latest dose of facts and figures to chat over at the nerd water cooler? Here goes! The latest AdMob report, which tracks
mobile web traffic from a variety of handset models and operating systems, has found some rather interesting -- if not completely unsurprising -- results. For starters, we're told that the biggest web surfing phone on each US carrier is a touchscreen model, and breaking that down, we find that the iPhone, Nokia N70 and BlackBerry 8300 take the top three spots (in order of mention) globally. As for OS, Symbian is still leading the pack from a worldwide perspective with 43 percent of requests, though the
iPhone ain't far behind at 33 percent; oh, and in case you were wondering, Apple's darling generated 50 percent of all US mobile web traffic in February. More numbers in the links below, should you be inclined to visit.
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posted Mar 28th 2009 10:34AM
I love that IBM Lotus logo!
Is the Nokia N70 a big seller in emerging markets? I can't imagine how else that phone would rank so highly considering that Nokia hasn't made it for a few years.
N70 is/was actually the low-end, entry-level among Nseries phones, packing some nice features of Nseries with a reasonable price, I think that's the point of it being so popular.
I use the Iris Browser on WinMo and websites always mistake me for being on an iPhone since it's a webkit browser. So how are these numbers calculated?
This metric is pretty much pointless unless your concern is websites. All it says is that a iPhone / iTouch users tend to go online more than most other phone users. It could be skewed by errors in collecting the data, but this information by itself does not constitute evidence that iPhone ownership is widespread. Maybe the lesson here is that people who favor devices like the iPhone also waste a lot of time on websites. :o Slackers. ;)