iPhone Drives More Than 60% Of Mobile Traffic

[Lee]

Over 60 percent of mobile web traffic comes from Apple iPhone users, says AdMob.

The mobile advertising firm's April 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report also includes figures from Gartner that estimate iPhones made up eight percent of all smartphone sales in 2008.

Gartner's figures also show that Symbian handsets were the most popular, accounting for 52 percent of all smartphones sold. However, AdMob says Symbian users only account for 26 percent of mobile web traffic.

The report also revealed that smartphones running Google's open-source Android platform, such as the T-Mobile G1, accounted for less than one percent of all smartphones sold but generated more that three percent of all mobile web traffic.

When it comes to HTML browsing from mobile phones, Apple's iPhone remained the most popular device, account for 65 percent of all traffic. It was closely followed by Android devices which generated nine percent of all traffic and in third place were handsets running the Symbian platform, which made up seven percent of all traffic.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/16576...b_traffic.html

Interestingly enough, the one thing this article doesnt mention is how the Blackberry has overtaken the iPhone as the 'smartphone' of choice for many in the United States and, how Palm is about to launch a new series of smartphones themselves.

Will be interesting to see these same type of stats in a years time to see how much Apples mobile web traffic share has dropped (if at all) when the next generation smartphones start being released later this year with semi-4g compatibility.

Clearwire and AT+T are already getting their networks ready for 4G technology which will include live streaming handset-to-handset video conferencing.

Regards,

Lee

[DrChango]

For our purposes this might be academic...they'll probably end up with an unspoken industry standard for display dimension, etc

From what I've been told, the big deal about the iPhone now is the way it handles browsing and media at the same time, whereas a lot of other mobile devices close one to the handle the other, which doesn't help the conversion process.

[longboardjim]

agreed , I like my iphone , it's probably one of the few devices you can reach me 24/7 ( interpreted: it put's off alittle heat in bed and if I touch it with wet hands it gives me alittle shock! ... "my new boyfriend" - carly simon :fool:

jim