Another new month sees another new Hot Handset list. May was a relatively quiet month for new releases so I wasn’t expecting much to change. There is just one new entry, but for the most part, the rankings haven’t really changed. Here’s how the handsets ranked for May. (Previous month’s position is shown in brackets)
HTC Desire is the most popular phone
- (1) HTC Desire
- (2) iPhone
- (3) HTC HD2
- (4) BlackBerry Curve 8520
- (5) Sony Ericsson X10
- (6) BlackBerry Bold 9700
- (7) Sony Ericsson Vivaz
- (-) HTC Legend
- (8) HTC Hero
- (10) Nokia X6
Not much movement at first glance – the HTC Desire has kept the iPhone off the top spot for the second month running! The Desire’s popularity has grown significantly over the course of the last month.
On last month’s top ten I revealed the scores for the top handsets – the Desire scored over 30% more than the iPhone did based on our points system – this month it scored an unbelievable 218% more than the iPhone! In fact, it scored more than the next 5 handsets combined.
The HTC Desire soared to 314 points, the iPhone dropped slightly to 144 and the HTC HD2 dropped to 59. By comparison, the Nokia X6 in tenth place scored just 15.
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.
Despite being almost identical to the HTC Desire, the Google Nexus One didn’t make the top ten and finished in 18th place.
BlackBerry handsets have had a strong month again and managing to hold onto their positions from last month.
Sony Ericsson aren’t doing too badly, the Vivaz is sitting comfortably in 7th place and their Android powered X10 held on to 5th place.
Nokia are still clinging on to 10th place, but with no new handsets due for a couple of months, I’d expect this to be their last appearance for a while. Hopefully the Nokia N8 will do well for them, but that’s not due until August.
Motorola, bless them, are yet again nowhere near at 32 with the Milestone, and LG could only manage 19th with the Cookie. It’s not good news for Palm either, despite having two new handsets go on sale. The Palm Pre has now dropped out of the top 100 completely.
Samsung are suffering this month too, with the Tocco Lite slipping out of the top ten and into 11th place.
Coming Up
June and July are always great months for handset releases. There are some big handsets coming and I can’t wait to see how well they all do. In just over a week Apple will be announcing their new iPhone, the Samsung Wave is due to hit the shelves any day now, with the Galaxy S not far behind it – three big releases that will no doubt turn this list upside down.
For more information on what’s coming up in the next few weeks, take a look at our Release Calendar.
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.