Apple, HTC and RIM smartphones currently ship with full Internet browsers. By 2015, 60 percent of all mobile phones will have one of two types of browsers, according to ABI Research.
Smartphones from the likes of Apple, HTC and BlackBerry-maker RIM all ship with full Web browsers, and within the next five years, more than half of mobile phones of all types will follow suit, according to ABI Research.
In a report Aug. 3, ABI analysts said that by 2015, more than 60 percent of mobile handsets will include a Web browser. In addition, they said that browsers will take on one of two forms: full Internet browsers, like those found on many popular smartphones, or proxy-based browsers.
The evoution of browsers for mobile phones will continue to evolve along those two paths, according to ABI analyst Mark Beccue. In the report, Beccue described one “highly sophisticated” variety as what most users consider a “full Internet browser.” These are found on both smartphones and high-end feature phones.
“Such devices can host these browsers because they have advanced application processors, expanded memory capacity and adequate screen size and resolution,” he said in a statement. “These full Internet browsers typically require about 64Mb of memory to run. A real key to the growth of full Internet browsers in higher-end feature phones is the falling cost of sophisticated applications processors.”
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