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Mobile Fun’s Hot Handsets – April 2010

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Each month we compile a list of the most popular mobile phones made by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Apple, LG and HTC. After a few quiet months, it’s great to see the launch of a range of new phones, all fighting for the top spot. Having said that, there are a few new entries, but for the most part, the hottest handsets haven’t really changed that much.Most have shuffled down to make way for the new boys, a few have stood their ground and a few have been pushed straight out of the top ten. Here’s how the handsets ranked for April. (Previous month’s position is shown in brackets)

HTC Desire - Hottest Handset in April

1. (-) HTC Desire
2. (1) iPhone
3. (2) HTC HD2
4. (3) BlackBerry Curve 8520
5. (-) Sony Ericsson X10
6. (4) BlackBerry Bold 9700
7. (-) Sony Ericsson Vivaz
8. (5) HTC Hero
9. (6) Samsung Tocco Lite
10. (7) Nokia X6

Wow. The Desire has knocked the iPhone off the top spot! That takes some doing, especially as it didn’t go on sale until the 9th April. The Desire didn’t just beat the iPhone, it scored over 30% more than the iPhone did based on our points system.

We’ve never seen a phone score so high on our Hot Handset list, the highest prior to this was the iPhone 2 months ago when it peaked at 176 – that’s after being on sale for 18 months. To give you an idea on just how popular these two handsets are here’s the actual scores for the top 3 handsets this month.

The HTC Desire achieved a massive 198 points,  the iPhone scored 151 and the HTC HD2 got 73.  By comparison, the Nokia X6 in tenth place scored 16.

The scores are achieved using a points system, we award points based on sales, number of customers owning each phone, searches on the website, page views and a few other bits of data. At the end of the month we total these up and publish the rankings.

Looking at the other handsets then, Google’s Nexus One didn’t make the top ten again but has climbed up to 23rd place following it’s official UK release on Vodafone.

Bad news for Nokia this month – they only have one handset in the top ten – the X6 in tenth place.

Motorola (again) are nowhere near at 32 with the Milestone, and LG could only manage 18th with the Cookie. It’s not good news for Palm either, with the Pre dropping all the way down to 97th place.

BlackBerry handsets have had a strong month again, with all their handsets slipping one place, with the exception of the Bold 8900.  A couple of new phones are due from RIM in the next couple of months too, so it’ll be interesting to see how these do.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is continuing to storm up the charts and finished in 10th place and their first attempt at an Android handset, the X10 went straight in at number 5.

There are some big handsets coming and I can’t wait to see how the Hot Handsets change over the next couple of months when these new handsets get released. In the next two months alone we’ve got to look forward to the new iPhone 4G/HD, the Samsung Wave, Samsung Galaxy S and hopefully the Nokia N8 – plus any other surprises the manufacturers throw at us.

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 & 30th April 2010.

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Want to know which was the hottest phone in March?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

It’s the start of another new month and time for us to reveal our list of the 10 Hot Handsets according to Mobile Fun customers. What makes our Hot handset list different from other retailers is that it is not based on handset sales, but the number of our customers that use a particular phone, monthly accessory sales and visitors to our website over the last month.

If you want to know how the handsets ranked in March, head over to our Hot Handsets page where we’ve just updated our list of the 10 most popular handsets.

Which Handset came out on top in March?

March has been a relatively quiet month with only a couple of new releases and all manufacturers  are still battling it out to get the number one spot.

To see which are the most popular handsets in the UK right now, or to see if your phone makes our top ten, head over to our Hot Handsets page.

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Mobile Fun’s Hot Handsets – March Update

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Everyone wants to know which is the best phone to get and which is the most popular, so each month we compile a list of the 10 Hot Handsets according to Mobile Fun customers. What makes our Hot handset list different from other retailers is that it is not based on handset sales, but the number of our customers that use a particular phone, monthly accessory sales and visitors to our website over the last month.

If you want to know how the handsets ranked in February, head over to our Hot Handsets page where we’ve just updated our list of the 10 most popular handsets.

New month - New number 1?

Although February has been another quiet month for new releases, the manufacturers have been battling hard to get the number one spot, so who’s going to come out on top?

To see which are the most popular handsets in the UK right now, or to see if your phone makes our top ten, head over to our Hot Handsets page.

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Mobile Fun’s Hot Handsets – February Update

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Everyone wants to know which is the best phone to get and which is the most popular, so each month we compile a list of the 10 Hot Handsets according to Mobile Fun customers. What makes our Hot handset list different from other retailers, is that ours is not based on handset sales, but the number of our customers that use a particular phone, accessory sales and visitors to our website over the last month.

If you want to know how the handsets ranked in January, head over to our Hot Handsets page where we’ve just updated our list of the 10 most popular handsets in January.

Smartphone Wars - Who's Number One?

Although January has been a relatively quiet month for new releases, the manufacturers have been battling hard to get the number one spot, so who’s going to come out on top?

To see which are the most popular handsets in the UK right now, or to see if your phone makes our top ten, head over to our Hot Handsets page.

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Mobile Fun’s Hot Handsets – January Update

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

We’ve just updated our list of the 10 most popular handsets in December. The thing that makes our top 10 handset list different from other retailers, is that ours is not based on handset sales, but the number of our customers that use a particular phone, accessory sales and visitors to our website over the last month.

December has been a relatively quiet month for new releases but with manufacturers fighting to sell the most phones at Christmas, who’s going to come out on top?

To see which are the most popular handsets in the UK right now, or to see if your phone makes our top ten, head over to our Hot Handsets page.

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