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List of best selling phones at Amazon

Amazon Best Sellers: best Cell Phones With Service Plans.

Interesting to see which phones

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are the current top sellers. This list will vary over time, of course. Good idea to keep this on a bookmark if you are interested in following the smart phone market place.

Feb 14

Will Nokia succeed in North America?

Here’s what a telecom strategy analyst thinks:

But before you go crazy on the definition of success let me define what that means in the short term: Nokia pulling 10 percent of the U.S. handset market share and Microsoft pulling in 20 percent of the OS market share by 2015.

via Nicoll: Thanks to Microsoft, Nokia will succeed in North America - FierceWireless.

Nokia angles for North American reentry (adweek.com)
Can Nokia’s Lumia Strategy Succeed In Australia? (gizmodo.com.au)
How Many Lumia Sales? As Nokia (and Microsoft) ashamed to reveal number, lets count - and compare to N9 MeeGo sales (communities-dominate.blogs.com)
Nokia Lumia 900 now available for pre-order at Microsoft’s retail stores with $25 downpayment (theverge.com)
Microsoft and Nokia to give away 85,000 Windows Phones, because failure is not an option (intomobile.com)

Feb 01

Global Mobile Phone Shipments and Marketshare, Q4, 2011

From IDC press release:

                Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, Q4
                                   2011 (Units in Millions)
            Vendor       4Q11 Unit  4Q11 Market  4Q10 Unit  4Q10 Market Year-over-year
                         Shipments     Share     Shipments     Share        Change
        Nokia               113.5        26.6%      123.7        30.7%           -8.2%
        Samsung              97.6        22.8%       80.7        20.0%           20.9%
        Apple                37.0         8.7%       16.2         4.0%          128.4%
        LG Electronics       17.7         4.1%       30.6         7.6%          -42.2%
        ZTE                  17.1         4.0%       15.7         3.9%            8.9%
        Others              144.5        33.8%      135.9        33.7%            6.3%
        Total               427.4       100.0%      402.8       100.0%            6.1%

Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, February 1, 2012

via Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Maintains Its Growth Trajectory in the Fourth Quarter Despite Soft Demand for Feature Phones, According to IDC - MarketWatch.