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Opera Software is out with their “State of the Mobile Web” report for November 2008. In it, the company behind the popular web browser reviews the top sites and top phones for Opera Mini in both Europe and North America.
Here are the highlights:
- Opera Mini users viewed more than 5.7 billion pages in November. Since October, page views have gone up 12.1%, while since November 2007, this number is up 303%. Data transfers also increased in line with page views, generating more than 82.9 million MB of data during November. That’s 12.5% more since October and 463% more since November of last year.
- Page views in Opera Mini grew 200% since January 2008 in the United States. In Sweden, which enjoys some of the highest broadband penetration in the world, page views grew 58% in 2008.
- BlackBerry Bold which is offered by AT&T in the U.S. made an immediate impact and is high on the list of top handsets preferred by Opera Mini users in the States.
- Facebook and MySpace are locked in a battle for mobile social networking supremacy in the U.S., although Facebook has surpassed MySpace on the top 10 list for the first time this year.
- Facebook is also successful in Europe, where other social networks such as Nasza Klasa in Poland and vKontakte in Russia and Ukraine, are consistently the top sites in their respective countries.
Want more? Hop over to Opera Software’s website to grab the full report.
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
