With smartphones rapidly replacing feature phones, mobile data usage as increased. Â This is especially pronounce in Asia, where smartphone growth is in the hundreds of percent. Despite Nokia having a dominant role in the Asian mobile market, BlackBerry has a strong presence when it comes down to smartphones, suggesting that there is significant growth in BlackBerry smartphones sales and usage. Â With BlackBerry smartphones being especially popular in Vietnam, Indonesia and other South-east Asian countries, the use of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini browsers has correspondingly increased.As an example, in Indonesia, the number of Opera Mini users has increased by 460%. Â In July alone, over 205 million people in Asia have used the Opera Mini or Mobile browser.With RIM’s new efforts to introduce entry-level smartphones into Asia such as the BlackBerry Curve 9220, 9310, and 9320, BlackBerry usage is set to grow using the BlackBerry 7 platform until BlackBerry 10 smartphones can be introduced.Source: Opera
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Opera Mobile Web Data Shows BlackBerry Growth in Asia (September,2012)