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Increase in mobile gaming

14 Jan 2011

The top five countries which have been most active on Djuzz, the mobile gaming portal owned by global mobile media company BuzzCity, are India, Indonesia, United States, Nigeria and South Africa, according to information contained in the latest monthly report released by BuzzCity, yesterday, Thursday, 13 January 2011.

The report includes December 2010 data, analyses the traffic and usage of the portal and highlights trends in mobile gaming since its launch.

The portal delivered more than 9 million games in December, an 18% increase. Although local 'whitebox' devices have made an impact in the last quarter of 2010, Nokia still dominates the marketplace - 15 of the top 20 devices were Nokia and 49% of all downloads used Nokia devices.

Whitebox devices on the other hand have slowed down towards the end of the year; taking 10% of the total downloads for the year. Other OEMs such as BlackBerry, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG continue to hold on via their increased presence in several countries such as US, UK, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia and Ghana.

BlackBerry gains

Last year, Blackberry took 0.5% (288 000) of overall downloads and continues to grow, gaining a strong foothold on several key mobile markets such as UK, US and Indonesia. This growth can be attributed to RIM's launch of its AppWorld and support for HTML5 (WebWorks) last year.

View the full report