Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile Web Browser of Choice

Posted by websagir on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:22AM
from the techieapps.com dept.

http://www.techieapps.com/android-surpasses-opera-to-become-the-number-one-mobile-web-browser-of-choice/

According to the recent data received from the StartCounter via Phandroid, Android as out performed opera browser to become the most widely used mobile web browser.

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by ifewalter on Monday March 05, 2012 @07:46AM (#3666320)

Browser of choice? I don't think so. When it comes pre-loaded with the os its no longer a choice. Especially since a lot of phone users have no idea there are other browsers.

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by w0utert on Monday March 05, 2012 @09:50AM (#3666632)

I think the fact that Google is pushing Chrome on Android, which according to reviews wipes the floor with the standard Android browser, more or less proves your point.

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by mahmud on Monday March 05, 2012 @06:00AM (#3666134)

Android is a browser now? Uhh, I run Opera on my Android! Does that mean I've put a browser in a browser, so I can browse while I browse?

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by antonyh on Monday March 05, 2012 @06:44AM (#3666202)

Perhaps they mean WebKit. Oh wait, that's not just Android.

They don't even spell the name of their own stats package right in the article: StartCounter? StatCounter?

Also, anything called Phandroid is likely to be slightly biased.

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by lucian1900 on Monday March 05, 2012 @09:26AM (#3666556)

Android's browser is called Browser, it's not hard to see why some might call it just "Android" instead of "the Android Browser".

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by dan1234 on Monday March 05, 2012 @08:21AM (#3666401)

I wonder why the iPod Touch & iPhone are listed separately on that graph (the iPad isn't even listed, I'm not sure if it's included within iPhone or not). If they were combined, Mobile Safari would be ahead by a few percent.

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by 27182818284 on Monday March 05, 2012 @10:59AM (#3666920)

Really this means a form of Chrome will become the mobile browser, right? Since, at least as I understand it, Chrome is going to be taking over the role of the stock Android Browser? (The beta has worked amazingly well for me on ICS)

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Re:Android Surpasses Opera to Become the Number One Mobile W... by zrgiu_ on Monday March 05, 2012 @08:17AM (#3666390)

now imagine if only they released chrome as the default browser on android since v1.0 in 2008... I wonder how much larger would Chrome's share be now...

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