Over the past five years the Micro edition has seen tremendous growth and adoption, especially MIDP applied to the wireless space. According to reports from Ovum, ARC, and the Wireless World Forum, today there are more than 280 Java handset models available from 32 manufacturers, deployed over 93 carriers. The installed base of Java handsets was 267 million at the beginning of 2004, and is projected to reach 1.5 billion by the end of 2007. Currently in Japan 50% of all handsets are J2ME-enabled, and have earned operators $1.4 billion. In Japan and Korea, around 80% of Java handsets sold in 2003 led to active Java users. These numbers are still well above the QUALCOMM BREW numbers. The $1.4 billion number (Japan only? USD or Yen?) is seven times QUALCOMM's recently published $200 million number. However, the $200 million was what QUALCOMM sent to developers, which is just a portion of what carriers have brought in. And is the J2ME number for handset sales and software or just software downloads? |
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