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Mobile Browsers
Advanced Processors, WebKit, and HTML 5
Research Report
- Pages
- 59
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- Released
- 3Q 2010
- Product Code
- RR-MCCS-10
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The mobile browser market is undergoing significant change as the mobile Web makes the transition from what some would call a "poor man’s Internet" to a full-fledged Web experience. Mobile browsers have been developed that can render many Web pages without the need for proxy server-based content adaptation. Such browsers have the potential to create an experience that overcomes some of the inherent Web access shortcomings of mobile devices relative to desktop computers.
But full Internet browsing is not the whole story for mobile browsing. It is becoming clear that specific use cases exist for three distinct categories of mobile browsers: Full Internet Browsers (FIBs), Proxy-Based Browsers (PBBs) and WAP Browsers. Mobile browsers are key enablers of a broad range of mobile services, from mobile video and TV and other media streaming to web browsing, mobile widgets and other web-based applications. They will become nearly ubiquitous and will be included in every mobile handset segment (ULCHs, Low Cost Handsets, Enhanced Handsets and Smartphones), as well as a broad range of other mobile devices: media tablets, MIDs, personal media players, personal navigation devices, gaming devices, and eBook readers.
This study identifies the drivers and barriers for the mobile browser market. It details how mobile browsers have evolved and how they are being positioned in terms of devices, markets and capabilities; it outlines the competitive landscape and breaks down the market strategies of key players; and finally, it provides detailed global and regional forecasts and forecast analysis by browser type and device type.
What Questions Does This Report Answer?
- How prevalent will mobile browsers be in mobile handsets?
- To what extent will mobile browsers be useful in low-cost mobile handsets?
- What other types of mobile devices will use mobile browsers versus desktop browsers?
- Why will WAP browsers survive and where will they be used?
- How will the mobile browser market be segmented between proxy-based browsers and full Internet browsers?
- How will the installed base of mobile browsers look by region? By mobile browser type? By device type?
Who Needs This Report?
- Mobile Network Operators
- Mobile device OEMs
- Mobile web platform vendors
- Media companies
- Investment firms
- Application processor manufacturers
- Mobile browser providers
- Mobile content providers
- Mobile network infrastructure vendors
Table of Contents
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Executive Brief
- Executive Brief: Top-Line Forecast
- Executive Brief: Drivers
- Executive Brief: Inhibitors
- Executive Brief: Market Share
- Executive Brief: Summary and Strategic Recommendations
Section 1.
Executive Summary 2
Section 2.
Conclusions and Recommendations 8
Section 3.
Mobile Browser Anatomy 9
Section 4.
Market Dynamics 19
Section 5.
Technologies 21
Section 6.
Market Development 26
Section 7.
Section 8.
Market Forecasts 35
Section 9.
Company Directory 49
Acronyms 51
Scope of Study 59
Sources and Methodology 59
Notes 59
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Device Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Device Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Non WAP Mobile Browsers, by Region, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Non-WAP Mobile Browsers, by Device Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, ULCH, by Type, World Market: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, Low Cost Handsets, by Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, Enhanced Handsets, by Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, Smartphones, by Type, World Market: 2009 to 2015
- Installed Base Non-WAP Mobile Browsers, by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, Asia-Pacific, Forecast: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, Western Europe, Forecast: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, Eastern Europe, Forecast: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, North America, Forecast: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, Latin America, Forecast: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type, Middle East and Africa, Forecast: 2010 to 2015
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Device Type
- Installed Base Non-WAP Mobile Browsers, by Device Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, ULCH, by Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, Low Cost Handsets, by Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, Enhanced Handsets, by Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, Smartphones, by Type
- Installed Base Non-WAP Mobile Browsers, by Region
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type
- Installed Base Mobile Browsers, by Browser Type
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