June 24th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »
The mobile Russian phone market has a lot of potential. This is also true for the mobile games. To get a better view of the trend that govern this market, we decided to interview Playfon’s team, a leading provider of wireless entertainment from Russia.
Vladimir Borodin, vice-president of the company, and Andrey Minakov, Head of Java Games Department were kind enough to answer Softpedia’s questions.
Last year, the Russian mobile games market amounted to 5.3 million units sold, which equates to $12.3 million in revenues. Despite some technical restrictions the level penetration of Java and Mophun-enabled handsets keeps rising, stimulating the market of mobile games. More …