Antony’s Mobile Blog

Just continue my previous posting, Some Numbers from Nokia’s CEO Speech at CES 2007; I am going to highlight some numbers on mobile phones industry from Motorola’s CEO, Ed Zander. Just for your information, I am not at CES now. I watched the web cast from Motorola site.

• There are more than 25 mobile devices sold per second these days.
• We have 2 billion of mobile phone subscribers.
• It took 20 years to get the first billion of mobile phone subscribers. It took 3 years to get the second billion. It is estimated, it will take 2 years to get the third billion.
• There are about 40 million new mobile phone connections every month. Over 6 million new subscribers are from India. Over 5 million new subscribers are from China
• 80% people in Japan sleep with mobile phone switched on.

Note: Ed didn’t highlight so many numbers, just like OPK. However, he had more live demos on his keynote.

I am not at CES 2007 now… but this morning I watched the web cast of Nokia’s CEO’s speech, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (OPK). During his speech, OPK highlighted some interesting statistic numbers:

• There were about 90 million units of convergence devices shipped last year. Nokia has almost 50% market share worldwide. It is expected that there are 250 million units sold in 2008.
• Nokia is the largest manufacturer of “pocket computer” (or “multimedia computer” according to OPK) by selling 40 million units in 2006
• Nokia had 36% market share of mobile phone in Q3 2006, almost twice more than Motorola.
• There are currently 850 million people have Nokia in their hands. No other electronic companies have ever had such a large customer base.
• 15 years ago, 1 of every 250 people use mobile phone. Now, 1 in every 3 people use mobile phone.
• The number of mobile subscribers is expected to surpass 3 billion this year.
• Nokia is the largest digital camera manufacturer by selling 140 million cameras in 2006.
• Nokia is one of the top six brands in the world (see also report from BusinessWeek).
• Nokia sold close to 70 million music devices in 2006. Nokia has become the largest music devices manufacturer.
  Nearly 70% people who are using Nokia’s music devices listening to MP3 regularly.
• 20% of European and US households have WiFi connection. It is estimated within 3 years time, there are more than 200 million VoIP users and more than 400 million broadband subscriptions.

I would like invite all of you who are a user of S60 phone, such as Nokia N-Series and Nokia E-Series, to participate in my polling: what is your favorite S60’s web browser?

There are four web browsers included in this polling, i.e.:

• Services
• Web (S60 OSS Browser)
• Opera Mini
• Opera Mobile

Click here to participate the polling. Thank you in advance for your participation.