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Opera Software has released its report on mobile web in 2009. The report focuses on the Southeast Asia and Vietnam emerges with impressive growth.
According to this report, the growth rate of users of Opera Mini, the Internet browser for mobile phone, in Vietnam in 2009 hit 846.9 percent, the highest in Southeast Asia. However, Vietnam ranks second behind Indonesia for the number of users.
In the world scale, Vietnam ranks the 8th in the top ten countries using Opera Mini, including: Russia, India, Ukraine, China, South Africa, the US, Vietnam, Nigeria and the UK.
Vietnam also tops the region for the growth of page views by Opera Mini.
By December 2009, there were more than 46.3 million Opera Mini users in the world, up 159 percent year on year.
Google is still the most viewed site by Opera Mini in Vietnam and most of Southeast Asian countries. Indonesia is the only exception, where Google ranked the sixth while Yahoo! took second place.
Among social networks, Facebook was the most favorite site globally. In Vietnam, the number of people using Opera Mini to access to Facebook increased 21 fold in 2009, compared to 6 times in the world.
Nokia is the most popular equipment using Opera Mini for web browsing in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, the top ten handhelds using Opera Mini are all Nokia models.
An Du | 
