Opera No. 1 mobile browser in world; iPhone No. 1 in U.S. and U.K.

Headlines today are touting that Opera has passed up iPhone’s built-in browser for mobile web browsers worldwide, based on StatCounter’s report released today. What those posts don’t say is that it all depends on the country.

Worldwide Opera is No. 1 with iPhone behind. In the United States and United Kingdom iPhone is No. 1 with iPod Touch second. China has Nokia No. 1 (way ahead of the others) followed by Opera, Sony and iPhone. And, to throw in a really strange stat, in South Korea — 91 percent of mobile web browser use went through iPod Touch, with all the others muddled together in the single digit percentage range.

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