There is interesting data on China’s mobile market in an article on the Wall Street Journal Online today. According to the story:

• China is the world’s largest mobile market by subscribers, with 687 million subscribers
  
• There are more than 270 million subscribers in the U.S.
  
• Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., predicts Apple can sell 2.9 million iPhones in China by the end of 2011
  
• iPhone has so far sold more than 26 million units worldwide in more than 80 countries, but the majority of sales are in the U.S.
  
• According to IDC, 7% of total iPhone sales in the second quarter, ended in June, came from the Asia Pacific
  
• 49% of total iPhone sales in the second quarter came from the U.S. and 25% from Western Europe
  

In June, Gartner released their estimates on the worldwide market for wireless gaming revenue in 2008 and put their number at $4.5 Billion. Other points include:

• Revenue will grow to $6.3 Billion by 2011
• Revenue in 2007 was $3.9 billion (16.1 % growth rate)
• 10.2% CAGR from 2007-2011
• Asia-Pacific (including Japan) is the largest market for mobile gaming at $2.3 billion in 2008
• Asia-Pacific Mobile Gaming should reach $3.4 billion by 2011
• India is expected to lead Asian countries in mobile gaming revenue $80 Million in 2007
• India should reach $450 million by 2012
• Western Europe is projected to grow from $701 million in 2008 to $862 million by 2011.
• North American market is projected to grow from $845 million to approximately $1.2 billion in 2011

Tuong Huy Nguyen is the principal analyst, and Madhusudan Gupta, is the senior analyst at Gartner covering the sector.