Steve Litchfield has posted some 'very' interesting stats at All About Symbian. It is hard to believe that the PSP is at the top, but the iPhone position is not surprising because it has not sold well (i.e. 3 million N95's compared to 200k iPhones), and the EDGE network is poor in the UK, very poor. Also, how did the TX manage to squeeze into the list? Thanks to Jah for the link.

Showing that you really can't believe every stat you read without knowing the exact context, and remembering the attention some USA mobile browsing stats got when they announced that Apple iPhone browser use trumped that of any other device, I was interested to see stats from respected UK computer magazine/web site PC Pro, showing the top 5 mobile devices that had accessed their servers in 2008 so far. Read on....

The figures, published in the May 2008 issue of PC Pro, showed:

1. PSP - 23.7%

2. Nokia N95 - 20.2%

3. iPAQ HX series - 20.1%

4. Palm TX - 3.6%

5. Apple iPhone - 3.4%

Which, for a UK tech web site I can quite believe. And which makes a nice corollorary to the conclusions drawn after the US browsing statistics.

And note that the above iPhone figure is despite users getting flat rate data built into their contract. I guess it shows that in the UK, at least, the majority of smart mobile device users either use Wi-Fi or have flat mobile data rates as well.

Statistics, eh? Who'd trust them? My take is that they're always interesting but should always 'be taken with a pinch of salt'!

UPDATE: Choy has correctly pointed out that these stats are just for PC Pro. Rather pointless then...