How many phones in the market currently and how many of new phones
shipped suport Java apps

Hi wazzally,

How many phones in the market currently... 

WORLDWIDE:
2003: 518,150,000 units
[see table for 2004 forecast]
neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/ leaf?CID=onair/asabt/resch/293778

"Gartner estimated that more than 510 million new mobile handsets
shipped in 2003 and another 560 million will ship in 2004."
http://www.ritesite.com/14587.cfm

UK (June 25, 2004)
56 million handsets
http://www.met.police.uk/job/job932/live_files/7.htm

...and how many of new phones shipped suport Java apps

October 14, 2003 ? Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW), creator and
leading advocate for Java technology, today announced that Java
technology-enabled mobile handsets surpassed the 120 million mark in
number of units shipped worldwide.
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=21896

24 Feb, 2004
"Sun Microsystems is the leading provider of technologies that power
the world's wireless communications networks. Over 250 million Java
technology-enabled mobile devices have been deployed by 31 handset
manufacturers through 77 operators worldwide. Java Card technology for
multi-factor authentication and security in mobile phone and smart
cards has crossed the 500 million units shipped mark."
http://uk.sun.com/company/press-release/2004/2004-02-24-94796.html 

18th May , 2004
"Europe : Despite the proliferation of Java handsets worldwide and the
increasing number of vendor models containing the platform, the number
of actual Java users is significantly lower. There are some very stark
regional differences in this analysis, since in Japan and Korea it is
believed that around 80% of all Java handsets sold in 2003 led to
active Java users. In Europe on the other hand, the opposite is
understood to be the case with a very low conversion rate of handsets
sold to active users of only around 10%."
http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/May2004/7035.htm

"The number of mobile phones and other handheld devices that ship with
embedded Java to run multimedia applications, such as games, is
expected to reach 74.9 million units this year, increasing to 601
million units by 2007, Venture Development Corp. of Natick, Mass.,
said."
http://www.mobilepipeline.com/software/15200031

Additional Link of Interest:

Mobile device market shows tremendous growth
August 6, 2004
http://www.comparecellular.com/newsstory_details.asp?id=1231&l=

I hope these stats are what you are looking for. If not, or if you
have any questions, please post a clarification request before
closing/rating my answer and I'll be happy to reply.

Thank you,
hummer

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Very good answer - needed ideally some stats on percentage of Java
phones of all phones shipped