Comments on: Mobile platform statistics http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/ Convergence, mobility, related technologies & development and random thoughts related to mobility and the mobile web. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Fuel Cellular http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-2246 Fuel Cellular Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:59:39 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-2246 Hi .. this is a brilliant find. Thanks for sharing the great info with me. What’s interesting for me is the more I read your stuff the more I find this blog (post) so helpful...... Also it's great to read other people's posts...... Hi .. this is a brilliant find. Thanks for
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]]> By: Wilmer http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1812 Wilmer Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:01:58 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1812 I want to know, which is the percentage of mobiles for nokia, motorola and others? I want to know, which is the percentage of mobiles for nokia, motorola and others?

]]> By: Impersonation Failure : Mobile platform development options http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1323 Impersonation Failure : Mobile platform development options Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:14:00 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1323 [...] Mobile platform development options Came across an interesting link via Simon Judge's Mobile Phone Development blog with a list of current programmable platforms and their market shares. At the moment Java is still clearly the most pervasive platform, available on 700M handsets followed by Flash Lite with just over 10% of that at 77M and Symbian (S60 alone 50M) with 70.5M. [Links] Mobile platform statistics today - Anders Lindh (FlyerOne Ltd) Mobile Development on Wikipedia - A breakdown of differences between the most popular mobile development options. powered by IMHO 1.3 Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! [...] […] Mobile platform development options Came across an interesting link via Simon Judge’s Mobile Phone Development blog with a list of current programmable platforms and their market shares. At the moment Java is still clearly the most pervasive platform, available on 700M handsets followed by Flash Lite with just over 10% of that at 77M and Symbian (S60 alone 50M) with 70.5M. [Links] Mobile platform statistics today - Anders Lindh (FlyerOne Ltd) Mobile Development on Wikipedia - A breakdown of differences between the most popular mobile development options. powered by IMHO 1.3 Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! […]

]]> By: David Beers http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1300 David Beers Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:17:52 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1300 If only the breakdown were this simple! J2ME MIDP is currently so fragmented that for all practical purposes (development, testing, deployment) it's a collection of related but incompatible platforms. S60 is broken into 2nd and 3rd edition now, which are again related, but binary incompatible. Same with Symbian (7.0 and 9.0). Linux is not really a platform so much as a kernel: there are many different application frameworks that run on Linux (Opie, GPE, Qtopia, plus many custom APIs in Asia), and Windows Mobile is split between incompatible Smartphone and PocketPC editions, in addition to having incompatibilities across versions. One interesting platform option you missed that can cover Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, and Linux is SuperWaba. The SuperWaba SDK is a Java language API with its own (non-J2ME) libraries and VM that you can distribute for free with your applications. It's open source and well suited to smartphone development. www.superwaba.com for more info. If only the breakdown were this simple! J2ME MIDP is currently so fragmented that for all practical purposes (development, testing, deployment) it’s a collection of related but incompatible platforms. S60 is broken into 2nd and 3rd edition now, which are again related, but binary incompatible. Same with Symbian (7.0 and 9.0). Linux is not really a platform so much as a kernel: there are many different application frameworks that run on Linux (Opie, GPE, Qtopia, plus many custom APIs in Asia), and Windows Mobile is split between incompatible Smartphone and PocketPC editions, in addition to having incompatibilities across versions.

One interesting platform option you missed that can cover Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, and Linux is SuperWaba. The SuperWaba SDK is a Java language API with its own (non-J2ME) libraries and VM that you can distribute for free with your applications. It’s open source and well suited to smartphone development. http://www.superwaba.com for more info.

]]> By: Mobile Phone Development » Blog Archive » Mobile Platform Market Shares http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1288 Mobile Phone Development » Blog Archive » Mobile Platform Market Shares Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:08:56 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1288 [...] Thinking about starting a new mobile project? Anders Lindh of Flyer One Ltd has put together a useful list of programmable platforms and their market shares. [...] […] Thinking about starting a new mobile project? Anders Lindh of Flyer One Ltd has put together a useful list of programmable platforms and their market shares. […]

]]> By: raddedas http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1030 raddedas Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:54:35 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-1030 a few more things for you: - Java is on 708m devices not 700m, according to the page you link to (a small %age for Java, but huge for the others!); couldn't find more recent figures sadly, I reckon there are more MIDP2 devices in active use than MIDP1 now - Symbian also ships on DoCoMo's FOMA phones, this is a locked down version without the ability to install 3rd party apps. These probably account for most non-S60 sales. - Flash on some handsets is very limited (eg. Samsung D600) and can't be used for standalone apps / web pages. It would be great to get properly comparitive stats for the other platforms and Flash 1.1 vs 2.0 figures, plus some idea of how much overlap there is - I'd imagine very few of the (non-BREW) handsets in the list don't have Java. a few more things for you:

- Java is on 708m devices not 700m, according to the page you link to (a small %age for Java, but huge for the others!); couldn’t find more recent figures sadly, I reckon there are more MIDP2 devices in active use than MIDP1 now

- Symbian also ships on DoCoMo’s FOMA phones, this is a locked down version without the ability to install 3rd party apps. These probably account for most non-S60 sales.

- Flash on some handsets is very limited (eg. Samsung D600) and can’t be used for standalone apps / web pages.

It would be great to get properly comparitive stats for the other platforms and Flash 1.1 vs 2.0 figures, plus some idea of how much overlap there is - I’d imagine very few of the (non-BREW) handsets in the list don’t have Java.

]]> By: alindh http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-940 alindh Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:44:54 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-940 True, SMS and voice is still the only universal "platform" on mobiles. Hopefully this will change quickly. I left XHTML out on purpose, as I couldn't find any stats on the browsers (if anyone has any figures related to mobile browsers, please leave a comment). My hunch is that WAP browsers are quite common (>500M?) and that support for basic XHTML exists in many phones (>100M?, e.g. all S60 phones should be XHTML capable). Still, the huge differences in browsers is a problem, as services and sites need to take into account quite many parameters (e.g. compared to desktop based web services, where there are a handful of different alternatives). True, SMS and voice is still the only universal “platform” on mobiles. Hopefully this will change quickly. I left XHTML out on purpose, as I couldn’t find any stats on the browsers (if anyone has any figures related to mobile browsers, please leave a comment). My hunch is that WAP browsers are quite common (>500M?) and that support for basic XHTML exists in many phones (>100M?, e.g. all S60 phones should be XHTML capable). Still, the huge differences in browsers is a problem, as services and sites need to take into account quite many parameters (e.g. compared to desktop based web services, where there are a handful of different alternatives).

]]> By: Lifeblog http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-863 Lifeblog Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:07:13 +0000 http://alindh.iki.fi/2006/06/27/mobile-platform-statistics/#comment-863 <strong>Got mobile platform stats? Anders does....</strong> Some interesting stats collected and brought into one place by Anders. He's looking at the different mobile platforms. I am impressed that there are 700M Java phones, though he doesn't split them between MIDP 1 or 2 (and of course,... Got mobile platform stats? Anders does….

Some interesting stats collected and brought into one place by Anders. He’s looking at the different mobile platforms. I am impressed that there are 700M Java phones, though he doesn’t split them between MIDP 1 or 2 (and of course,…

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