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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Mobref, mobile application platform statistics, an extract
Here are links to some of the platform statistics (market share relative to all mobile phones) provided by Mobref, with the most interesting figures noted.
It seems the figures are based on mobile site accesses, which could explain the high figure for Symbian OS below.
Java ME
CLDC 1.0: 36.6%
CLDC 1.1: 49.9%
MIDP 1.0: 13.6%
MIDP 2.0: 72.9%
Conclusion: Stay with CLDC 1.0 if at all possible (no floating point), but MIDP 2.0 seems pretty safe. There's another reason for staying with MIDP 1.0 functionality though, based on my own experience: MIDP 1.0 functionality is typically less flawed.
Also note that MIDP 2.0 is backwards compatible, so MIDP 1.0 applications should run on those phones as well.
I don't know what the remainder shares represent. Phones without Java at all? i-mode phones?
Symbian OS
Overall: 28.7%
Note that Symbian OS phones tend to support Java ME as well.
The figure is way too high. Nokia claims to have delivered 100 M phones with Series 60, and Series 60 is the dominating UI/application platform based on Symbian OS. Sun claims there are 1.5 B phones with Java ME (in practice CLDC and MIDP).
It seems the figures are based on mobile site accesses, which could explain the high figure for Symbian OS below.
Java ME
CLDC 1.0: 36.6%
CLDC 1.1: 49.9%
MIDP 1.0: 13.6%
MIDP 2.0: 72.9%
Conclusion: Stay with CLDC 1.0 if at all possible (no floating point), but MIDP 2.0 seems pretty safe. There's another reason for staying with MIDP 1.0 functionality though, based on my own experience: MIDP 1.0 functionality is typically less flawed.
Also note that MIDP 2.0 is backwards compatible, so MIDP 1.0 applications should run on those phones as well.
I don't know what the remainder shares represent. Phones without Java at all? i-mode phones?
Symbian OS
Overall: 28.7%
Note that Symbian OS phones tend to support Java ME as well.
The figure is way too high. Nokia claims to have delivered 100 M phones with Series 60, and Series 60 is the dominating UI/application platform based on Symbian OS. Sun claims there are 1.5 B phones with Java ME (in practice CLDC and MIDP).
