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Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS

Posted by timothy on from the feature-creature dept.

bonch writes "According to a report from NetApplications, which has measured browser usage data since 2004, Oracle's Java Mobile Edition has surpassed Android as the #2 mobile OS on the internet at 26.80%, with iOS at 46.57% and Android at 13.44%. And the trend appears to be growing. Java ME powers hundreds of millions of low-end 'feature phones' for budget buyers. In 2011, feature phones made up 60% of the install base in the U.S." Looking at the linked chart, it looks Java ME's been ahead of Android for all of 2011, too, except for the month of October.

3 of 286 comments (clear)

  1. Mobile OS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Duh, since when was Java ME an OS?

  2. Sorry, but this is bull by yelvington · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have access to a great deal of actual and current mobile usage data, and this is just completely at odds with reality. "Feature phone" owners in the United States typically do not have data plans and do not use the Internet.

    Actual measured usage of mobile Web services by "feature phones" is slightly above that of Windows Mobile, which is to say "irrelevant noise at the bottom of the chart" in the range of 1 to 2 percent.

    Grandpa's Jitterbug may in fact run J2ME, but Grandpa doesn't use it.

  3. Re:Holiday impact? by Toonol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find it odd that the editors take submissions from people like bonch, or other known partisan trolls here. If you read slashdot with any regularity, you learn to recognize and disregard those names quickly. I'm forced to conclude that the editors either don't read slashdot, or like to post trolling headlines.