According to an Telephia, a provider of performance measurement information to the mobile industry design innovation and 3G user experience influenced European handset sales during the 2005 holiday season.

Compete, Inc. released an interesting report on cell phone shopping IN the US. The research firm counted page views ON the 5 major carrier web sites over a four week period ending November 2005. The survey suggests that the cell phone model pages that got the best "hits" ARE the most popular cell phones today (OR will be AS people who visited the pages buy them).

The report says over 70 percent OF wireless buyers evaluate phones online before they buy, AND thatīs why shopping patterns ON carrier web sites provide a VIEW INTO the products AND plans consumers want.

According to a recent report from M:metrics on mobile data usage by cell phone ownership the Nokia 6010 IS the most widely used Nokia handset IN the United States. The M:Metrics survey IS about how much the handset model has TO do WITH mobile DATA USAGE. The survey points out that the Nokia 6010 IS commonly associated WITH pre paid plans AND LOWER spending AND that IS why people WITH this phone ARE very low WHEN it comes TO DATA USAGE.

In the last Top Selling Nokia Phones article I mentioned that Nokia said that their Mid-TO high-END models equipped WITH cameras AND MP3 players, LIKE the Nokia 6230i AND 6610 models, had been popular.

According TO Nokia the world's best-selling cell phones ARE the Nokia 3310 AND 3330 phones. Together 126 million Nokia 3310 AND 3330 phones have been sold since the launch IN 2000 until their "retirement" earlier this YEAR. FOR comparison, the combined total OF ALL Nokia cell phones sold BETWEEN 1991 AND 1998 IS 100 million.

Iīm going to publish a Nokia Best Sellers List on regular basis. The idea of the Best Sellers List IS TO keep track OF the most popular Nokia phones AS well AS other manufacturers phones. The research material (sounds very academic) behind this list consists OF numbers given by cell phone OR related retailers AND manufacturers.

As an example one source OF information IS Krusells "Top 10"-list OF sold cell phone carrying cases. Krusell IS a Swedish manufacturer OF carrying cases FOR cell phones AND PDAīs. If Krusell sold a lot OF Nokia 6230 cases IN July it propably means that this Nokia model has been a top seller IN June. Krusell's products ARE sold IN six continents AND IN MORE than 50 countries.

If you ARE interested IN what cell phones ARE top sellers AT the moment you have TO do SOME serious investigation WORK. FIRST lets see what the manufacturers say. This week Nokia said that their Mid-TO high-END models equipped WITH cameras AND MP3 players have been popular. I guess this means that the Nokia 6230i AND 6610 models have been selling well. This week Motorola also told the PUBLIC that the black version OF its slim Razr V3 phone has been very popular. We ARE ON the RIGHT tarck, but this IS still speculation AND we need SOME MORE evidence...