Best selling phone: iPhone dethroned Moto RAZR
Apple, Inc.’s popular iPhone 3G has become “the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S.,” according to the NPD Group. The Apple iPhone 3G dethroned Motorola’s RAZR, long the market leader, in the third quarter. NPD said the “watershed shift” to Apple’s iPhone 3G represents a move toward “fashionable functionality.” Apple’s iPhone 3G can add another trophy to its crowded shelf. On Monday, The NPD Group reported that the popular smartphone surpassed the Motorola RAZR in the third quarter as “the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S.”
The RAZR had reigned as the top-selling consumer handset for the past 12 quarters. The report by the market researcher is based on more than 150,000 online consumer surveys each month, projected to represent all U.S. consumers 18 years and older. Mobile phones are also seeing some features becoming more common. For instance, 30 percent of handsets sold in the third quarter had a QWERTY keyboard, resulting in the greatest year-over-year increase yet in sales for devices with that feature. A year ago, only 11 percent had QWERTY keyboards. Similarly, 83 percent of handsets purchased this year have Bluetooth, versus 72 percent last year, and 68 percent were music-enabled, compared to 49 percent last year.
Source: NewsFactor
Comments(22)
Oh, another post about iphone. My brain can’t take it anymore…
just proves that with an aggressive enough ad campaign people will buy any old crap!
imagine the early adapters who bought the first iphone,then have to pay again for the 2nd gen one and then find its still a piece of garbage compared to many others.
its like ipods-why do people buy them? the volume level is pitiful,you have to use itunes software which is garbage!
apple have conned us all!
…stop posting that iphone crap I cannot take it anymore!
Hmmm, think its an interesting read. I mean, I know this isn’t wy we all come to RLSlog, but it is nice to get some interesting news.
aggressive add campaign?
Who shelved out 10 million dollars for Seinfeld. Apple?
@ 2
because ipod is clearly the best.
not loud enough??? what the chr!st is wrong with your ears mate? do you really need it THAT loud? I have mine set to half way and any louder would hurt your ears in a normal setting, even on the subway i only have to turn it up a little bit.
And what is wrong with itunes? It plays music, works, and never has crashed. That is a bad thing?
@ woofwoof:
That’s funny, because I wasn’t aware that you were required to buy the iPhone 3G if you had an original iPhone.
The I-Phone is an over-priced and over-hyped piece of crap.
Iphone is simply a Mac in a phone.
And it costs more than a good laptop. And laptop is much more useful than iphone.
Iphone is really an overpriced POS. You pay for the name, not for the product. Get a Symbian powered mobile (like one from Nokia N Series). It at least supports java applications and costs less. Symbian is most popular OS on mobile, not Iphone OS.
as an early adopter and experienced smart phone user i have to say that i never regretted buying my iphone. and if i were to choose a mobile handset now, more than one year after my initial purchase, i would still buy the iphone again.
Hey the key word here is USABILITY…anyone ever using more than a few smartphones, be it blackberry, windows mobile or symbian…will tell you once they’ve used an iphone for more than a few days that it leaves all the other ones in the dust.
If you prefer Symbian…good for you – they will be cheap as chips…as they are now obsolete.
Like apple or not (I think they will end up being another microsoft borg monolith – no thats not good) but they HAVE moved the whole personal device thing to the next level. LIke it or not. The market has changed.
Will the dinosaurs make it?
what is it about the iphone anyways
@12 you can watch porn on it, duh!
Nothing to do with functionality. Just shows how adults in the US are impressionable sheep. All about the ‘ram it down your throat’ super aggressive Apple marketing. Most adults wont use half the features on it.
@ 9:
You show me a decent laptop that costs less than $400 (which is the most anyone in their right mind should pay for an iPhone). I’d rather have my iPhone than any $400 laptop. Can you control your computer remotely, download compatible videos and music off of rapidshare, tether your cellphone connection to your laptop, or download and play a plethera of great games anytime, anywhere you have signal on your N series or Blackberry? I don’t think so(not all of them at least). And even with it’s lack of flash, the iPhone is a better internet browsing experience than anything symbian or windows mobile have to offer.
The only features missing on the iPhone are flash(for the camera and browser), cut&paste, MMS, Push data notification and turn by turn gps. These are a few things anyone could live without considering the many other features they will have at their fingertips.
Even if you just considered the app store, as an all in one device, the iPhone is truly an amazing product already. Just think of what it will be like in 5 years…..
I bought used iPhone 2G on eBay in very good condition without simlock with 2.1 software for 250$
For me it’s best phone ever… Like someone said USABILITY is the key to sucess
Wow, are you telling me the Motarola Razr was the most popular phone in the US? That phones actually worst the the iPhone, anything from Samsung or Nokia beats that phone.
That said i’d probably still rather go for a RAZR than an iphone, but much happier with my Nokia N82, it may be one ugly MF, but it’s got some cool features, like built in GPS, one of the best camera phones on the market, and a great battery life.
The iPhone won’t hold on this title too long …. Check out the Samsung Omnia i900 – That’s gonna be the iPhone killer!! Got all thatthe iPhone has & some more – Like option to add more storage by microsd card – front & back camera (5mp) – A2DP bluetooth audio streaming … & lots more!!
Get ready to move aside apple – here comes Samsung!!
In other words:
New trendy piece of crap phone tops old trendy piece of crap phone.
@ Martin: Is that a Flash logo on the iphone? Where’d you get the picture? AFAIK, Flash is still unreleased on the iphone. I’m kind of curious as to where that picture comes from because it looks official.
Seriously…where did you get that? I want flash.
@ 20 – Wah, me too!! I noticed that as well. Flash for the Iphone would be awesome!!
i-Phone is only useable if you think uasable means a couple of features that YOU use actually work.
File transfer and manipulation, spreadsheets, PDFs etc. Nope.
Cant copy and paste either.
The touch technology is 10 yrs old and WAY out of date, not intended for a portable either, wrong technology. They bought out a touch technology company on the verge of bankruptcy in order to offer some form of touch to keep up with everyone else, but failed miserably.
Camera is as good as one of this keychain digital cameras you get for $7.
Stylus use is a no go, not accurate, doesnt read taps accurately, oh yeah WRONG touch technology again.
Apple was years behind the pack on this one, their normal marketing and hype got the trend started and the sheep flowed in, just like the i-pod junkies. Now there are people who have never even SEEN a real mobile enterprise device that are all of a sudden mobile device gurus, without a clue of course.
I think the best term for fans of latecomer Apple devices would be i-Sheep, baaaaaaa.
iPhones are toys for little boys who want to look grown up in school, or they fit the same trendy wannabes who think i-Pods and i-Tunes actually sound good. i-Sheep again.
They are for children, not to be used as business class devices, they lack too much that is needed in the business environment to even begin begin worthy of such purpose.