News has come down the wire from Electronista, about the top 5 best selling mobile phones in the good ol’ USA. It makes for interesting reading, although not hugely surprising, for the most part. You’ve got two Blackberry mobile phones in the top 5, the LG Chocolate (which I suspect is a different version the one we had about 2 years ago), and the Apple iPhone 3G comes in at the number 2 spot.
What’s moderately surprising (and incredibly depressing) is what the best-selling mobile phone in America is. The RAZR. And I don’t mean the newest version, the V8.
I mean the original, 4 year old, stopped-being-sold-in-the-UK-2-years-ago Motorola V3.
Oh.
Dear.
God.
I know the American mobile phone market is traditionally seen as being way behind the UK and Europe, but having it banged home like that is still a shock. Even a budget phone like the Sony Ericsson T280i can beat it. And it looks better. There you go, though, that’s why I’ve always said the iPhone was meant for the American market. Less competition. We have good mobile phones over here.
To be fair, though, they have them in America, too, it’s just that everyone seems to want to buy the RAZR…
Even basic mobile phones can outclass the RAZR; if you want to outclass it whilst not paying a lot, you need the Sony Ericsson T280i, because it’s dirt cheap and dead nice!
