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Mobile Fun’s Hot Handsets – Updated November 2009

Each month we compile a list of the most popular mobile phones made by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Apple, LG and HTC. This month the handsets have changed considerably. There are two new entries and a new number one. Here’s how the handsets ranked for October. (Previous month’s position is shown in brackets)

# 1 in September - Apple iPhone 3G/3GS

# 1 in October - HTC Hero

  1. (3) HTC Hero
  2. (1) iPhone 3G / 3GS
  3. (2) Nokia N97
  4. (4) Samsung Tocco Lite
  5. (5) BlackBerry 8900 Curve
  6. (-) BlackBerry 8520 Curve
  7. (-) Sony Ericsson Satio
  8. (6) Nokia 5800 Xpress Music
  9. (7) LG Cookie
  10. (9) Samsung Jet



The Hero has climbed back up to the top spot, replacing the iPhone 3G/3GS as the most popular handset and is the only HTC handset in the top ten.  The two new entries this month are the BlackBerry 8520 and the Sony Ericsson Satio – the first handset from Sony Ericsson to make the top 10.

As usual, touch screen devices are dominating the top ten, with only the 2 BlackBerry handsets having a physical keyboard. The LG Cookie drops slightly from 7th to 9th place – proving that the entry level touchscreen device is a big hit. The flagship models from LG, the Viewty Smart and Arena, are nowhere to be seen for the 3rd month in a row.

The flagship BlackBerry Storm is still nowhere to be seen, although with the new Storm2 just released we’d expect to see it in the top ten next month.  Also noticable by it’s absence is the Palm Pre, which despite all the hype surrounding it’s launch only managed to rank 54th. With Christmas fast approaching, it will be interesting to see how things change next month as Christmas usually sees a shift towards less featured handsets – will that be the case this year.

Sony Ericsson have finally managed to get a handset in the top ten – the long awaited Satio, although the Aino (released at the same time) only managed to rank 84th. Motorola are again nowhere to be seen.

November sees the release of the iPhone on Orange and we’re expecting it to return to the number one spot.

About this Top Ten

This list is unique as it is not based on handset sales, but the number of users with a particular phone, accessory sales and visitors to the mobilefun.co.uk website between 1st & 31st October 2009.

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