Shwetank Dixit

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Mobile Web Trends

By Shwetank Dixit

About Me

What is mobile web?

What is the mobile web?

What is the mobile web?

Its about ...

A standard screen phone

and about ...

zen mp3 player

and about ...

ipod touch

Travel back in time

Then what happened?

Opera and Opera mobile
iPhone

State of transition

How opera min works

Opera Mini

Monthly data consumed

Findings

USA: Top Websites

USA: Top Handsets

UK: Top Websites

UK : Top Handsets

Russia: Top Websites

Russia : Top Handsets

China: Top Websites

China: Top Handsets

India: Top Websites

India: Handsets

The African Continent

Africa
  • Last year saw 180% growth in usage
  • Zambia and Swaziland using Opera Mini simulator on desktop, to access sites!
  • South Africa and Egypt lead the way for mobile Web adoption, followed by Kenya and Nigeria.

South East Asia

South East Asia
  • Often conflicting region, with Singapore having very high broadband penetration rates, and cambodia having very low
  • Lack of proper broadband in some countries led to burst of mobile browsing
  • Heavy users often opt for the latest phone model that comes with 3G
  • Mobile operators to offer fixed-rate 3G packages
  • Indonesia and Malaysia lead the way for mobile Web adoption, followed by Thailand and Brunei
  • Friendster is the premier social-networking site in the region, with hi5 coming in second

Worldwide Trends

Trends: India

Challenges to adoption: India

Challenges to adoption: India

Aajtak.com on opera mini
Aajtak.com on opera mini

Challenges: The basics

  • Bad development techniques
  • Opera Web Standards Curricullum - Get the basics right
  • Opera.com/WSC
Different phone screen sizes

More challenges for mobile development

Links

Shwetank Dixit

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