Android’s Robot overtakes Opera as number one mobile web browser

PanARMENIAN.Net - Android has already become the most dominant mobile device on the planet, and now the Google-owned operating system is the owner of the mobile Web’s most used browser, according to data from StatCounter, via Phandroid.

As The Next Web reports, figures from the online measurement service show that February saw use of Android’s Robot browser overtake Opera to take the top spot for the first time.

Opera, which is particularly popular in Africa and Asia, sits in second and the firm will look to increase its share with the newly released developer beta version of its popular Opera Mini Browser, aimed at giving users a more advanced and social mobile Web experience.

The Scandinavian firm does not own its own devices but, thanks to deals with firms like Samsung - which pre-loads Opera onto its feature phones - the browser is well used.

StatCounter breaks out usage of the iPhone and iPod Touch, which might otherwise see Apple’s browser rank first. However, considering the numerical advantage that Android has over Apple - there are now more than 300 million Android devices worldwide, that’s up 250 percent - the fact that the iPhone ranks so closely shows that its users are proportionally more likely to browse the Web than Android owners.