Now this is some amazing news as the recent ABI survey has pointed out in corroboration with giants Ericsson that the total level of mobile phone subscribers in the world have become as high as 5 billion which they say it has touch. In terms of the region wise breakdown, their report says that the Asia Pacific and more importantly the Africa area are the regions with the fastest growing subscribers all around the world. African mobile phone subscribers are apparently growing by the rate of around 22% per year while the mobile phone coverage will reach to high levels of around 65% in the Asian and the Pacific areas.

In terms of growth per day, Ericsson have said that there are as many as 500 million new customers who are being added on each day and by the end of the year 2020 it will be reaching somewhere around the level of 50 billion. These are some outstanding numbers we think. Although the market in the east is primarily mixed, the western markets in Europe and America have a large number of people who are buying new convergence devices like the iPad 3G which is a prime example. However, most of the growth here is due to the emergence of the power of the upcoming eastern markets of China and India, although India still lacks behind China. This is due to the fact that wireless telephony is still not that big in India and especially the market of the mobile internet is not really big yet. However the growing trends are encouraging.

We do look at the rate at which mobiles are being developed and digital technology is booming, but when you consider that the global population stands at 6.8 billion and there are 5 billion unlocked mobile phone users, this is completely astounding.

There are many drawbacks in the Apple iPad, but one of the most significant problems is that Apple and its CEO, Steve Jobs have prevented Adobe’s Flash technology to run in the Mobile Safari browser. According to Steve Jobs, Flash is not really required as with newer advancements in HTML5 standards, it becomes possible to achieve the same visual experience that flash provides. In fact, users would have already been used to such HTML standards over the years.

But despite all this, there are lots of sites on the Internet that do not work correctly on the iPad and Apple Unlocked iPhone, as well as other IOS devices. But fortunately, the eternally helpful community for iPhone development has tried to solve this problem, and has ported the Flash application to the iPad. At the moment port is called “Frash”, and it is the infant most stage in introducing Flash technology to the iPad.

The real brain behind this very helpful development is Comex, known for great deal of iphone hacking and it is totally responsible for Adobe’s Flash runtime compatible with the iPad. The Frash port is based on version 10.1 of Adobe Flash. This same application runs on Android phones (Google Nexus One) with Android 2.2 Froyo Operating System. In the case of Frash, it was possible to run Flash applications from within Mobile Safari, and it has been seen that Flash applications are working fairly well on the iPad.

Frash uses a multi-process model, which is similar to that of Chrome. So, if Frash/Flash decides to crash, it does not shut down the whole browser with it, which is an advantage. Safari doesn’t shut down, and continues to play other content which has Flash on the page. Frash is not ready for public exposure, as keyboard and video inputs have not yet been made available.

So, for now, only hope is that the world comes to terms with using HTML5, or Steve Jobs and Apple decides to give it’s i-devices some Flash love.