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Estimates of Mobile Phones and Smartphones Supporting HTML5
Vikas Banga
Vikas Banga
Co-Founder, LetsGoMo Labs
Vikas is the Co-Founder and CTO of LetsGoMo Labs, where he is responsible for identifying the new... more>>
Over the last few months, we have seen lot of client requests who want to reach out to their customers and target segment through Mobile. Of course one way is to create a native mobile app (iPhone, Android, J2ME Blackberry or iPad) for each platform, and the other way is to create a mobile website. Now, some of the clients opt for both the approaches, and some just for one, depending upon their budget and target market.

When it comes to mobile websites, we have seen little hesitation on creating HTML5 Mobile Websites. We get lot of questions on what is the future for HTML5, what benefits over the WAP, and most important being which mobile phones are supported by HTML5?

Lets try to answer the last one, which mobile phones or smart phones support HTML5?



Notes:
  • A Lot of HTML5 features depend on the underlying specifications of mobile phone like camera, codec support, Processor, Screen Resolution, and more.
  • If you want to check how much support your current mobile phone browser has, simply go to www.html5test.com from your mobile browser.
So, how many mobile phones exist right now which can display HTML5 mobile websites?

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, worldwide HTML5 phone sales will surge from 336 million units in 2011 to 1 billion units in 2013. HTML5 has quickly become a high-growth technology that will help smartphones, feature phones, tablets, notebooks, desktop PCs, televisions and vehicles to converge through cloud services. Moreover
  • 34% of top 100 sites using HTML5 - binvisions.com
  • 75% of Developers Using or Plan to Use HTML5: Survey - Evans Data
  • 2.1 billion HTML5 Browsers on Mobile Devices by 2016 - ABI Research
  • HTML5 in the Top 10 tech trends for 2012 - CNN Tech
  • HTML5 is the #1 job trend - .netmagazine, indeed.com
  • The Web is going through a once-in-a-decade technology transition to HTML5 and CSS3 - Gartner
At its 2012 Developer Summit, AT&T cited the estimate of an installed base of 2.1 billion mobile devices (including phones) in 2016. AT&T also predicted HTML5 on all its smartphones, with support for an increasing number of HTML5 functions.

Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, on Dec 7, 2011 in a press conference at Boston said, "HTML5 has quickly become a high-growth technology that will help smartphones, feature phones, tablets, notebooks, desktop PCs, televisions and vehicles to converge in the future. HTML5 will be a pivotal technology in the growth of a multi-screen, 4G LTE cloud that is emerging for mobile operators, device makers, car manufacturers, component vendors and Web app developers. With its potential to transcend some of the barriers faced by native apps, such as cross-platform usability, HTML5 is a market that no mobile stakeholder can afford to ignore."

Now, you need to decide if you still want to create a WAP site or leverage HTML5 to create a highly interactive and engaging mobile website for your users. In either of the cases, do Contact Us, and we would be happy to help.
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