iPhone's Safari Mobile Browser, 1st in US, 2nd in UK

iPhone's Safari Mobile Browser, 1st in US, 2nd in UK. According to a new report, The mobile version of Safari packaged as standard on each iPhone has already scaled the charts to emerge as the No. 2 mobile web browser in the UK and the No. 1 mobile web browser in the US.

Ireland-based StatCounter tracks over 9 billion page-loads over 2 million websites each month, and they've released the latest results of all that web-spying.

It turns out that, not even a year after the iPhone's initial launch, the iPhone Safari browser holds a 0.18% market share in the US - making the iPhone the No. 1 mobile browser. Combined with the iPod Touch (which runs the same Safari browser), Apple's touchy-feely duo accounts for 0.23% of the web browser market. That's a 64% increase since December. In comparison, Nokia's market share registered around 0.01% in the US.

Now, UK browser-share is a different story. The iPhone takes the No. 2 spot with 0.06% of the mobile browser market, behind No. 1 Nokia's 0.15%. But, combined with the iPod Touch, the Mobile Safari browser accounts for 0.10% of the UK browser market, considerably closing the gap to the top spot. In comparison, RIM's BlackBerry accounted for just 0.02% while Sony Ericsson garnered 0.01% of the UK market.

In short, Apple's iPhone is the 1st mobile browser in the US and 2nd in the UK.

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