Browser co Opera Software has reported that Nokia still remains the top used mobile brand in India, and that Opera Mini users in India use their mobiles largely to use social networking sites, read news, download customized wallpapers and ringtones. More than 208 million users (globally) surfed with Opera Mini in December, which, when combined with the Opera Mobile numbers, brings the total number of Opera mobile users to 229 million. Opera hasn't disclosed such data separately for India, but they did share additional information on India with MediaNama: - Users are up 33% from December 2011 to December 2012. - Monthly users increased by 6.8% from November 2012 to December 2012. - Page views too are up by 44.8% from December 2011 to December 2012. - Monthly page views increased from November 2012 to December 2012 by 12.5%. - Monthly compressed data (by Opera users, since Opera compresses data in order to reduce data usage for accessing the mobile web) increased from November 2012 to December 12 by 12.6%. Top domains accessed from Opera Mini in India: google.com facebook.com youtube.com wikipedia.org yahoo.com zedge.net cricbuzz.com wap.in mobile9.com indiatimes.com Surprisingly, Getjar, the mobile app store, is no longer among the top domains accessed from Opera Mini. This is perhaps an indication that users have started to shift to Android based low end and mid range smartphones. In an interaction with MediaNama, Pushkar Chitale (DGM – Product & Developer Community at Mauj), had informed that the number of java game downloads had dropped for their app store Mobango. Top…
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