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Flash enabled handsets: 89 Nokia, 71 Sony Ericsson, 13 Verizon, 149 NTT DoCoMo, 110 KDDI, 60 Softbank
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Percentage of Flash Lite Devices in US and Western Europe
Usually I'm asked by developers and business people the following questions "what's the percentage of devices in the US that support Flash Lite" or "how many Nokia S60 devices are there in the UK". Providing this type of information to the community is important and you can now download a two page PDF that contains this information.
Percentage of Flash Lite Devices in US and Western Europe
Data for this PDF was provided by mmetrics and shows the active number of Flash Lite devices as of January 2008 for six countries: US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Total Flash Lite devices, number of device models and number of addressable devices by platform are listed: Nokia S60, Nokia Series 40, Sony Ericsson and BREW.

Let me know if you find this information useful or what other types of data you'd like to see.

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6 comments

Thanks Bill, this is great information. What this tell me if you're looking at the US market is...start working with Verizon Dashboard! :)

By Blogger Maxim , at Tue Apr 15, 06:03:00 AM PDT  

Thanks Bill,

What would be interesting is the percentage of those users who download content, games, wallpapers, etc. And whether they download them on deck or off deck.

Also, what percentage of those users use their mobile browser to view content.

Cheers

By Anonymous Paul , at Tue Apr 15, 09:30:00 AM PDT  

Thanks for info Bill!

Is there any way to see the percentage of S60 devices among those?

Ugur.-

By Anonymous Anonymous , at Wed Apr 16, 03:44:00 AM PDT  

Thanks for that Bill. I have long suspected the Series 40 is the real Flash Lite champion for Nokia. Traditionally everyone has been looking at S60 as the platform to reach consumers, but that doesn't always seem to be the case. I think the coming of more complex, hybrid Symbian/Python/FL apps is going to interesting, keeping in mind the strength of the S40 numbers.

By Anonymous Stefan , at Wed Apr 16, 05:51:00 PM PDT  

Thanks Bill,

It's great to see these numbers of Flash Lite penetration in Spain :)

By Blogger [BlocketPC] Marcos , at Thu Apr 17, 01:01:00 AM PDT  

Hi Bill,

Any ideas why these numbers are inconsistant with the same data from strategy analytics (Jan 2008) forecast installed base of FL devices?

Country - S.A. - M:Metrics
USA - 31.8 - 25.6
France - 7.5 - 5.3
Germany - 10.4 - 9.4
Italy - 9.2 - 5.7
Spain - 7.9 - 6.3
UK - 13.7 - 11.7

It seems S.A. has reported consistantly inflated numbers (perhaps they have included no-longer-active handsets). The difference is around 10-20% for most of these, and almost 50% in the case of Italy's stats.

Which do we believe?

By Anonymous Peter Vullings , at Wed Apr 30, 05:10:00 PM PDT  

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