According to Opera, the top reason people are buying mobile devices that can surf the web are for using them on Social Networking sites such as Loconut, Facebook and Bebo.
The Norway-based software firm - which says its mobile browser, Opera Mini, is the world’s most popular - studied the Internet habits of more than 44 million Opera Mini users worldwide and reports there are major differences in how people use the mobile Web. Opera says it looked at aggregated data.
Worldwide, some 40 percent of mobile Web traffic heads to social networks and one-fourth to content portals or search engines, Opera said. In the United States, South Africa and Indonesia, 60 percent of mobile Web traffic clicks lead to social networks.