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