{"id":219,"date":"2009-03-06T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/06\/top-10-mobile-phones-in-february-2009\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:48:01","slug":"top-10-mobile-phones-in-february-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/top-10-mobile-phones-in-february-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Mobile Phones in February 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the list of the 10 best-selling phones (judged by accessory sales) as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krusell.se\/nav\/marketing\/?pressRel=123\">compiled<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krusell.se\">Krusell<\/a>, our Swedish holster-maker friends. I will not comment further on the sense or nonsense of this information but reference what I <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/top-10-mobile-phones-in-january.html\">said previously<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So without any further ado, here&#8217;s the list (in brackets the ranking from the previous month):<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-family:verdana;font-size:10px;color:rgb(92,92,92);\">1. (1) Samsung SGH-i900\/i910 Omnia<br \/>2. (2) HTC Touch HD<br \/>3. (5) Nokia 6300<br \/>4. (3) Nokia E51<br \/>5. (4) Blackberry Storm<br \/>6. (8) Nokia E71<br \/>7. (6) Nokia 3109<br \/>8. (-) Nokia 5800<br \/>9. (7) Sony Ericsson X1 Xperia<br \/>10. (-) Nokia 3120<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The most noteworthy new entry is the Nokia 5800 (XpressMusic), and the holster-maker&#8217;s CEO reckons it would shake up the top 3 next month. After Nokia&#8217;s most recent US launch <a href=\"http:\/\/nokiaexperts.com\/nokia-5800-launch-fiasco-expect-future\/\">disaster<\/a> (see even more poignantly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symbian-guru.com\/welcome\/2009\/02\/why-nokia-sucks-in-the-us-market.html\">here<\/a>) for the device, this will sadly  but almost certainly not be driven by US sales though&#8230; <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And as for the remainder: I remain skeptical about the measure (holsters). Other surveys (based on sales, like Sound-Scan used to do for CDs) show VERY <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/top-10-phones-in-us-december-2008.html\">different results<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the list of the 10 best-selling phones (judged by accessory sales) as compiled by Krusell, our Swedish holster-maker friends. I will not comment further on the sense or nonsense of this information but reference what I said previously about it. So without any further ado, here&#8217;s the list (in brackets the ranking from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,484],"tags":[79,285,286,410,471,569,595,605,654],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-oem","tag-blackberry","tag-htc","tag-htc-touch","tag-mobile-phones","tag-nokia","tag-samsung","tag-smartphones","tag-sony-ericsson","tag-top-10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-3x","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}