As per a research by InMobi, the average mobile Internet user consume 7.2 hours of media daily and mobile devices represent 27% of this time. Globally speaking, mobile has surpassed TV in terms of time, with consumers spending 27% of their media time on mobile, compared to 22% on TV. 39% of consumers use their [...]
Mobile Internet is the next BIG revolution in India and as per a study conducted by Google India and IPSOS, around 94% Indian smartphone users have used their smart device to access Internet from their phone. – 56% of smartphone users in the country access the Internet multiple times a day (in US, the number [...]
Thanks to widespread awareness of Smartphones, capacity issues plaguing mobile operators around the world will worsen in 2012. As per a report by Arieso (England based company that advises mobile operators), users of the iPhone 4S demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, who [...]
So IAMAI’s Internet in India report says that India’s internet user base has gone well above 100 million – that’s just under 10% of the population. India’s internet user base was growth was very sluggish until 2007-08, but has picked up rapidly thereafter(source: here, 2008 data from here). This begs the question – will India [...]
China’s most popular browser, The new product UCWeb 8.0 version for Android is based on the strong power offered by U3 kernel technology. The UCWEB 8.0 version comes with improved five performance indices of mobile browsers – speed, intelligence, safety, low energy consumption, and expansibility (claims to save up to 90% of the traffic consumption [...]
Opera has released its latest “State of Mobile Web” report that offers a few interesting insights on platforms vs the intent: Android users are more likely than users of other platforms to visit education sites. Windows Phone users are more likely to visit email and communications sites, compared to users of other platforms. Feature phone [...]
Bharti Enterprises and SOFTBANK CORP, parent corporation for one of Japan’s leading internet company groups (SoftBank) have announced the formal launch of Bharti Softbank Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“BSB”), a 50:50 controlled joint venture between Bharti and SoftBank established to focus on mobile internet market. BSB will actively invest in the mobile internet ecosystem’s growth in [...]
Younger Smartphone users (15-25 yrs old) spend more than 3 hrs per day on their phones and spend 60% of the time on entertainment & browsing e.g., gaming, surfing the net and multimedia.
We have been talking about how Nokia is losing market share in India and while Nokia officially denies such stories, the writing is on the wall. For the last few years, Nokia devices have been the top 10 devices in Opera mobile report, but times they are a changing. As per Opera’s March report, Micromax [...]
Desktop Internet has a limited reach in India (the best-case number is 70 million users) and Mobile Internet has shown immense potential in the country, especially with the rise of Mobile only Internet generation, i.e. those whose primary device to access Internet is mobile. Opera Software and On Device Research recently conducted a device agnostic [...]
