UK Retail: Top 10 Postpay and Prepay phones this week

Ben Robinson

Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.

• wonderer

  Where’s iphone? Is it selling good in UK?

• Some

  iPhone, LoL=)

• newtype2011

  Thanks for this piece Ben. It’s always interesting to see what is the rage across the pond. I am shocked to see that the G600 is that high on the list, but, I suppose people still have a warm place in their hearts from the days of the D500 -

• MJ

  wonderer – I don’t think the iPhone is elligable for the UK charts as O2/Apple won’t disclose how many they are selling. Bizarre really.

  newtype, Samsung handsets constantly sell very well over here, the U600, D900 and so on are all big sellers. The G600 isn’t that bad a handset really, plus when near enough all the phones in the list are free on contract then you’ll get a quite varied top 10.

  I think what surprises me more is that there are phones like the 6300 and 5310 in the contract phone list. The 6300 is only roughly £59 on payg (about $120) so may just go to show that there is a market for a reasonably specced basic handset I guess

• MJ

  Oh and some of the pre-pay prices in the chart seem to be more expensive than you can pick them up for, wonder if it is an average price?

• Ben

  Hi all,

  @newtype2011: no problems

  @MJ: stats do make for interesting reading sometimes don’t they! I think the prepay prices are blended avaerages, obviously if you look you can always find that elusive deal

  Benjo

• Andrew

  iPhone isn’t experiencing stellar sales over here. I’d say largely due to the costly contract, two years plus expensive phone. People are used to getting phones for nearly free on a one year contract, not to mention lack of 3G. Personally I haven’t seen a single person using one on TV or in person, only in the shops.

  I’m surprised to see the 6500 Slide at the top, I know two people with the Classic but no one seems interested in the Slide.