With 0.09% share, iPhone rules web usage on mobile phones
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 9:41 AM PST In Mobile Web, Research, iPhone
Users of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s handset surf the web more than any other device owners. According to ComputerWorld, iPhone’s Safari has grabbed a 0.09% share, which might not seem like much but when you put it in perspective – it actually is.
Apparently, web browsing on any Windows Mobile powered device accounts for only 0.06%, while web usage on Danger OS (Sidekick/Hiptop) and Symbian S60 based devices holds 0.02 and 0.01 percent respectively.
As far as I’ve understood, these are the numbers for the U.S. as I guess Nokia (NYSE: NOK) certainly holds a more significant share in Europe. Still, kudos to Apple…
[Via: Valleywag]
I use Opera Mini on a Nokia N80. Are these stats based on the WebBrowser Used? or the OS? I know a lot of Nokia users use Opera Mini as the browser bundled with most Nokia’s isn’t the best.
Wow reading main article it looks like it’s based on the OS rather than the browser. The data package that comes with the Iphone does give it a massive advantage over other mobiles. Would be intresting to get same stats for Europe any ideas where they might be?
Haha this web usage most be taken of apples headqwarter
and if you make this in Europe it wont be easy > it looks like O2 is having problems keeping its UK iPhone fleet connected to their network. Reports are coming in that O2 iPhone users are having problems acquiring a good signal in the UK, or any signal for that matter – many users are reporting that their iPhones usually present a “No Service,” or an occassional single-bar of wireless reception, status
and there are not sale many iphones in Europe >
So, how did O2 fare in their initial iPhone sales? Not as well as they would have liked, apparently. “Slow” would be one way to describe iPhone sales in the UK. The Register reports that initial iPhones sales figures have yet to break 30,000 units – with 26,500 iPhones having been activated in the two weeks since the iPhone’s launch on O2. Carphone Warehouse reported sales of 11,000 units over the launch weekend. And, an unnamed source told AppleInsider that the premier Apple Store in the UK, located on Regent Street, was still working to sell the entirety of their initial iPhone stock – which was shipped to the store prior to the iPhone’s UK launch on November 9. The Regent Street Apple Store has reportedly been selling a laggardly 100 iPhone handsets per day (compare that with the LG Shine that effectively sold more than 10,000 units worldwide for every day it was on the market this past year). http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/11/12/apple-iphone-launch-full-of-fail/
Actually, O2’s problems are likely related to their network. We speculated (http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/28/o2-iphone-having-receptionsignal-problems-in-the-uk.html) that it might have to do with the carrier’s inability to make it’s 900Mhz band work with the iPhone. Seeing as how reception issues have been largely reported for INDOOR environments (where higher frequency bands have hard times penetrating) and the fact that iPhones in the rest of the world are not experiencing these problems, it makes sense that the problem lies with O2, not the iPhone, as you make it out to be.
Also, the iPhone failed to meet O2’s expectations, we already mentioned the iPhone’s “laggard” UK sales(http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/28/apple-facing-laggard-o2-iphone-sales-in-uk.html), but the real reason for the lagging sales may have more to do with the fact that Brits are averse to paying more than a few pounds for a new phone with new contract.
Guys, can you not add in the country that these stats are from in the title? I suspect a lot of your readers arent from the US.
Id say that these stats are hardly a suprise, I doubt many people in the states used their mobiles to look at the internet pre iphone because of the lack of 3g phones. The iphone has created a niceh because its browsing experience is that much better than the mainstream handsets available in the states, also apples Marketing muscle most likely has opened the general public’s eyes to the internet on a mobile.
(Sorry this probably doesnt make uch sense, gonna hit the sack now!)