With the entire tech word endlessly buzzing about the latest new smartphone, it’s easy to forget that around 75% of handsets sold are basic feature phones – often lovingly referred to as “dumb phones”. With these phones generally lacking an official “App Store” of their own, users turn to the web to find new ways to expand their handsets. One of the most popular resources for this purpose is GetJar, a repository of over 20,000 free mobile applications. While GetJar offers a number of applications for smartphones, their primary game seems to be J2ME-based applications for phones with a bit less muscle.
Of GetJar’s free offerings, 3 out of 5 of the most downloaded applications are IM clients. Later this morning, one of of these IM clients, eBuddy Mobile Messenger, will be announcing that they have surpassed 10 million downloads on GetJar’s app store.
