Mobile Fun’s Hot Handsets – June 2010

Another new month sees another new Hot Handset list. June saw the biggest phone release in history with the iPhone 4, but with a limited number of handsets making their way into the UK, iPhone 4 didn’t quite manage to push the Desire out of the number one slot, but still stormed into the charts in second place. As with last month, there is just one new entry, with most handsets moving just a couple of places. Here’s how the handsets ranked for June. (Previous month’s position is shown in brackets)

The HTC Desire is the Hottest Handset around

HTC Desire is still Number 1

Given the hype and the fact that Apple sold 1.7 million phones in just 3 days I really expected the HTC Desire to come in second, if not 3rd. This means that the Desire has now been the most popular phone for 3 months. Having said that, the Desire’s popularity has dropped off a little over the past 4 weeks and I think it’s going to struggle to keep the top spot next month as more and more people manage to get their hands on iPhone 4.

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.

For the last couple of months I’ve been revealing the scores for the top handsets as I think it gives a better idea of just how incredibly popular these phones are. This month the Desire scored twice the amount of points than the iPhone 4 and more than all variants of iPhone combined based on our points system.

The HTC Desire scored 243 points (-71), iPhone 4 went straight in to second place with 120 and the iPhone 3G/3GS dropped to 100(-44). By comparison, the BlackBerry 8520 in 4th scored 38 points and the Nokia X6 in tenth place scored just 13. What’s interesting here is that iPhone 4 scored almost the same amount that the Desire and iPhone 3GS dropped, suggesting that a high number of Desire and iPhone owners have made the switch to iPhone4.

BlackBerry handsets have had another strong month and have managed to hold onto the same positions that they’ve held for the last 2 months.

Sony Ericsson aren’t doing too badly, the Vivaz is sitting comfortably in 8th place but their Android powered X10 dropped down two places to 7th place. Surprising to see the X10 mini didn’t make the top ten and finished 21st.

Nokia are still desperately clinging on to 10th place, and I really thought they’d be out of the top ten this time round. The N8 isn’t due for another 6-8 weeks and I’d be very surprised if the X6 is still there next month

Motorola. Oh dear, still no sign of Motorola, despite a number of new phones being announced. They seem to be gaining popularity again over in the states, but they need to do something soon in the UK or people are going to start forgetting all about them. Their best performer was the

LG could only manage 24th with the Cookie. This is really bad as they’ve released so many phones since the Cookie, but they’re just not popular.

Palm have been bought out by HP now, so I don’t expect to see much from them. None of their current phones feature in the top 100.

Samsung are suffering again this month. The Tocco Lite has held on to 11th place, but their flagship handsets, the Galaxy S and the Wave aren’t doing as well as they’d have hoped with the Galaxy S coming in 27th and the Wave 14th. Surprising really as the Galaxy S is a great alternative to both iPhone 4 and the HTC Desire.

Coming Up

July and August will see some big handset releases0 and I can’t wait to see how well they all do. 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 June 2010.

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