SA’s top handsets, according to Opera

Opera released their latest State of the Mobile Web Report recently, providing information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web.

The latest report includes profiles on the top 20 countries for Opera Mini usage, a spotlight on mobile browsing trends in the European Union and a look at how much money consumers can save using Opera Mini.

According to the report Opera Mini saves consumers worldwide more than 2.2 billion USD each month on their mobile data bills.  South African users save 6 USD per month – equating to R42.

“Since mobile data is compressed by up to 90%, Opera Mini users potentially save a lot of money on pay-as-you-go plans,” Opera said in a press statement.

Consumers in the United States and Nigeria benefit the most from Opera Mini’s unique compression technology, which reduces the size of web pages up to 90 percent (%).

Using prevailing metered rates, United States consumers could save 141 USD on average each month, while Opera Mini users in Nigeria save 44 USD each month.

Trends in South Africa (ranked sixth worldwide for Opera Mini usage) include:

1. Page-view growth since September 2009: 99.7 %
2. Unique-user growth since September 2009: 66.8 %
3. Data transfer growth since September 2009: 71.5 %
4. Page views per user: 428
5. Data transferred per user (MB): 4
6. Data transferred per page view (KB): 11
7. The mobile social networking site, myGamma, is new to the Top 10 list.

Top 10 sites in South Africa by unique users (change from previous month)

1. facebook.com
2. google.com
3. mxit.com (up from 5)
4. wikipedia.org (down from 3)
5. youtube.com (down from 4)
6. mygamma.com (new)
7. getjar.com (down from 6)
8. thumbtribe.mobi (up from 9)
9. my.opera.com (down from 7)
10. yahoo.com (down from 8)

Top handsets for September 2010

1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
2. Nokia 2700c
3. Nokia 2330c
4. Samsung SGH-E250
5. Samsung GT-S5233a “Star”
6. Nokia 5000d
7. LG KS360
8. Sony Ericsson W205
9. Nokia 7100s
10. Nokia 2680s

 “Keeping costs low is about more than just saving money; it is about making the Web more accessible to a wider range of people,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera.

“That is why we focus so heavily on making Opera Mini work on all phones, and, in fact, why we originally founded Opera. We believe access to the Web is a universal right, and we hope that by keeping costs low, we play a part in helping people connect, on any device, wherever they are.”

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