Opera Releases India-Centric State Of The Android Mobile Web Report

Opera Software has released it’s State of the Android Mobile Web report, which takes a closer look into the mobile browsing behavior of these smartphone users in India. The report shows a steady growth rate in the number of Indians using mobile devices to get online. This growth is fueled by the various affordable smartphones that are available in the country at present. 

Opera Mini has the largest number of users in India and in the past one year, Opera Mini users in the country have increased by 136.6%, resulting in 19% of the total Opera Mini users coming from India, out of which 12% users are on Android.

Some of the key highlights of the report include the fact that around 21.7% of all data used by Opera Mini’s Android users is for Facebook, with Google being a distant second at 5.8%, followed by ESPNcricinfo at 1.7%. Also, about 50% of the top hundred domains visited by Opera Mini’s Android users, were related to news and information, search, price comparison and e-commerce.

Unsurprisingly, Samsung tops in the list of Android devices used to access the web via Opera Mini, with a whooping 9 out of 10 top Android devices coming from the stables of Samsung. The report adds that taking into account the top-100 Android devices of Indian Opera Mini users, Samsung tops the charts with a market share of 31%,  followed by Sony and Micromax at 23% and 15% respectively.

Finally, the report suggests that India, in general, loves low-cost Android smartphones, as 9 out of the top 10 smartphones cost less than Rs.10,000, while the only device in the top-10 costing greater that Rs.10,000 is the Samsung Galaxy S2.