- From: Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:17:29 +0200
- CC: public-mw4d@w3.org
Dear All, Here is a quick summary about this topic, and potential future directions 1- there are a bunch of analysis about the trend without very focused statistics. Ex: http://www.chetansharma.com/globalmarketupdate1H08.htm Such report are very interesting to get an overview. However, they are imho, targeted at operators: the key points are coverage for high-capacity networks (3G,HSPDA,...), and data arpu. Unfortunately, these factors does not really reflect the usage by the lowest segment of population, and thus not really accurate in the context of our group. 2- about mobile web usage, there are a bunch of reports. the most interesting ones are imho from admob: http://www.admob.com/s/solutions/metrics on which you can track the evolution of mobile web usage from different countries/regions this is also very interesting to see how the traffic increase particularly in developing countries, but it is pretty hard to capture both the percentage of the population using the mobile web, and the percentage of the population who could have the technical possibility to use it Another kind of interesting reports is from opera. A series of monthly publications about the state of the mobile web:http://www.opera.com/mobile_report/ It is particularly interesting to see what are the top site in each countries. But here again same problem as above in the context of our group 3- there is a report from the Helsinki University of Technology which did the exact job we would need, but for finland only. It might be possible to run similar studies for target countries, but this would require time, and msot probably resources. So this is hardly workable in the context and timeline of MW4D 4- the most promising resource for now is statistics presented on http://stats.getjar.com/statistics/ particularly there are information based on mobile phone model that covers around 90% of the market. For instance http://stats.getjar.com/statistics/AF/manufacturer/All let you know devices model and their corresponding market share for ~88% of the market (12% being unknown). From this list, and using database of mobile characteristics like WURFL (http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ ) or DEVICE ATLAS (http://deviceatlas.com/ ) it should be possible to get the information we need about the availability of a browser, or a jvm But before i investigate this bit and develop a small wrapup to get some results, the key point is about the trust we can put in the stats from the above mentionned website. What does people think ? Is there anybody who have previous experience with this site ? any other thoughts about a potential process to get accurate data ? Cheers Stephane -- Stephane Boyera stephane@w3.org W3C +33 (0) 5 61 86 13 08 BP 93 fax: +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 22 F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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