Over half of them only ever surf the mobile web.
Norwegian search engine Opera has been furiously driving its mobile efforts by introducing the Opera Mini browser to feature phones,adding mobile payments and updating its app store.
Given the campaign zest, it's unsurprising that – according toTechCrunch – Opera says Mini now has over 168.8 million users. Interestingly, 56 per cent of those only ever browse via mobile, demonstrating the impact of the migration from PCs.
The mobile-only web search figure increased for developing companies including Egypt, Bangladesh and Brazil which boast mobile-only rates of 72 per cent, 69 per cent and 65 per cent.
Additionally, Opera claims 35 per cent of users are likely to purchase music and games via their mobile devices than those who use another browser.
To add to the firm's impressive numbers, Mini users viewed over 117 billion pages last month, up 64 per cent on last year to generate a total of over 1.9 billion MB of data.

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