That is shockingly believable data and speaks of how terrible it is to use the internet on any phone other than an iPhone.
I think this is a clear indicator of the key role that phone based (or perhaps more properly phone accessible) applications will have into the future. There are still UI issues to be resolved (cut and paste on the iPhone not the least) to make hand held devices effective for general tasks but once the right balance has been achieved then phones will be the access point of choice for the vast majority.
The iPhone is: known to focus on usability; made by Apple; has iTunes, a big screen, a great screen, a wide screen; has a PDA brother -- the iTouch; runs a version of a real operating system; and is made by the manufacturer of the most popular portable digital music players of each of the last 7 years or so. Finally, Apple is not a phone manufacturer but a designer of usable things -- people want to buy something that is made by Apple, and not a phone company. The resulting popularity, promise of an SDK, a commitment to the product line, and an exciting bridge of software and hardware gets developers on board. This gets the iPhone to the point where all of a sudden, it doesn't matter who created it--Microsoft, McDonalds, or Staples--or exactly what it's capable of: everyone else is using it, which means it's now a "standard", and a good enough reason to make that your next phone.
And by saying n95 I was reffering mostly to S60 Version 3 platform, which is used on more phones than N95, which means they have the same browser.
iPhone may be appealing, but overall doesnt mean that is the only way to surf the mobile web. The browsing capabilities in many phones are really worthwhile.
It's obvious this is an iPhone praising story.
"popular" it's a vogue word, doesn't mean anything if you don't say location. In Europe, phones come free or at loyaltee-fee with connection packets, which make it more accesible for people to change their phones easier. So, you stuck with a "popular" iPhone easier.
"real operating system" ?
sorry, but it rings to my ears the 3-in-1 iPhone pre-launch Steve Jobs speech
What real means anyway? Multitasking with IPv6, multimedia capabilities and UTF-16 support that is possible to write applications for? Symbian answers to these.
"standard and good enough..."
Well, you should check your numbers with Symbian penetration.
Nokia is already working on feel-touch UI which will make touching surface feel like a keyboard when necessary.
Actually, iPhone sales totalled 4 million as of last month. So it is the n95/s60v3 that, if your 2 million number is correct, is in half the number of hands.
"18.8 million converged devices (S60) shipped in Q4 compared to 11.1 this time last year * Over 11 million Nseries devices and over 2 million Eseries devices were sold in Q4 * Market share in North America dropped to 5.1% while every other region except China experienced double digit"