This chart shows The Most Popular Mobile Browsers in each country.
A mobile browser is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimized so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable devices. Mobile browser software must be small and efficient to accommodate the low memory capacity and low-bandwidth of wireless handheld devices. Typically they were stripped-down web browsers, but some more modern mobile browsers can handle more recent technologies like CSS 2.1, JavaScript, and Ajax.
The mobile browser usually connects via cellular network, or increasingly via Wireless LAN, using standard HTTP over TCP/IP and displays web pages written in HTML, XHTML Mobile Profile, or WML . WML and HDML are stripped-down formats suitable for transmission across limited bandwidth, and wireless data connection called WAP. In Japan, DoCoMo defined the i-mode service based on i-mode HTML, which is an extension of Compact HTML, a simple subset of HTML.
A successful mobile browser quickly displays websites and optimizes the content for small screens. This is why the main aspect used in comparison analyses is websites’ loading time. Moreover, there are features like tabbed browsing, security, RSS feeds and voice interaction, which provide richer experience when using mobile devices
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