The popular Opera Mini browser is experiencing an explosive growth in users. In March over 23 million people worldwide used Opera Mini to browse the net on their phone. If you compare this with previous months, the hockey stick is definitely appearing: Since the lastest update, there is a new bookmark appearing on the start [...]
At Distimo we track all major app stores. The largest store for Java and Symbian is Getjar. These are the 10 most downloaded apps on Getjar this week: eBuddy (357,102 downloads) Nimbuzz (386,682) Opera Mini (259,385) Mig33 (171,088) Google Maps (161,148) Facebook (110,696) Super Bluetooth hack (99,683) Yamee (86,390) Qeep (70,985) Glassplayer (76,337) In this [...]
In only a week, the second Android device will come to the market: the HTC Magic, also named the G2. The first country to get it is Germany with Vodafone. Germany is definitely going fast on Android, with the first Android phone by Samsung coming in June. O2 Germany will exclusively offer the Samsung i7500. Next [...]
AdMob releases a very interesting report every month on worldwide mobile ad requests they serve. This month the attention was on Android. An interesting fact extracted from the report is that of all ads that AdMob serves on the Android G1, 50% is coming from applications. So, of the 72M ad impressions, 36M did not [...]
Next to the number of apps, we have been tracking everything else that is happening in the Apple app store. Interested to know more? We will be launching monthly reports very soon.
According to PCWorld, China Mobile is to launch a mobile App Store by the end of this year. According to analysts they say, this mobile App Store was a breaking point in the negotiations between China Mobile and Apple for offering the iPhone in China. The new 3G mobile network and China Mobile’s mobile App [...]
This week we already talked about Facebook Mobile being the fastest mover in the March Getjar rankings, doubling their downloads within 4 weeks. Getjar just announced that Facebook Mobile hit the magic 1M downloads mark, within 10 months after launch. Why is this 1M so interesting, compared the the millions of Facebook users? Well, the [...]
So you want to monetize your Android application? Offering paid applications in Android Market is currently only supported for US and UK developers. Support for more countries should be coming soon. Since the Android launch several developers have been offering trials to show users what their app can do, and monetize from an upsell to [...]
The launch of Nokia’s Ovi app store is just around the corner, coming in May. Mobile developers will be able to distribute Java, Symbian and Flash Lite apps, paid and free. Here is a nice video that gives some background info: You can already upload your mobile application for Q&A by Nokia. Check out http://publish.ovi.com [...]
Reid Hoffman, CEO of LinkedIn and investor in more than 60 web ventures, just wrote about his rules for investing in startups on TechCrunch. His first rule is to think about reaching a massive audience: “In real estate the wisdom says “location, location, location.” In consumer Internet, think “distribution, distribution, distribution.” At Distimo, we feel [...]