Vodafone’s Top Selling Mobile Phones for October

Vodafone have announced a list of their top selling mobile phones up to October 5th. Some of them are surprising, particularly when you consider how expensive they are. Others are perhaps less surprising, and are deservedly popular as they’re great mobile phones that appeal to a wide consumer audience.

Intriguingly, none are from Motorola.

See the complete list of Vodafone’s top selling mobile phones after the jump.

Vodafone’s Top Selling Mobile Phones for October 2007

In reverse order, we have:

9). Sony Ericsson K800i

A great looking Sony Ericsson Cyber Shot phone with an excellent 3.2 megapixel digital camera built in. Easy to see why this one’s a winner, as it works beautifully.

8). Nokia 7373

Surprising one, this, as it looks, well, not exactly blessed in the looks department! Allegedly a designer phone, the Nokia 7373 is a slider phone that’s aimed at women, or men with a strong liking for pink.

7). Sony Ericsson W850i

Another Sony Ericsson phone, this time one of their top-end Walkman phones. Proving that music phones still sell by the bucket load, and that Sony Ericsson makes some of the best music phones out there, the W850i looks cool in black with its orange trim, and with a free 1GB memory card thrown in by Vodafone, it offers great value for money.

6). Nokia 6110 Navi

This one surprised me, as the Nokia 6110 is only a few months old, and is one of Nokia’s first phones to feature GPS. All of Nokia’s phones will come with GPS from next year, and the company is betting big on GPS being a major part of mobile phones in the future by spending over $8 billion buying mapping firm Navteq.

The Nokia 6110 Navi is the first phone to prove Nokia’s strategy has a good chance of working, as it’s pitched at the mid-segment of the market, where the ealry adopters aren’t, and where people are more likely to buy a phone because they want its features, rather than for any gimmick.

This bodes well for the future of GPS phones (which obviously bodes very well indeed for Nokia).

5). Sony Ericsson W880i

Another Sony Ericsson model, the W880i has been around for a while now, and you can get some great deals on it. It’s no surprise that it’s still selling well, though, as it looks fantastic and is super slimk, while offering great music-playing features.

Sony Ericsson phones may not be do-everything wonders like some of Nokia’s or Samsung’s, but what they do do, they do extremely well.

4).Nokia 6300

A standard Nokia phone this. Good looking, clean, decent features, and, er, that’s it! You’d expect it to sell well as it’s cheap and well specced for the price.

3). Nokia N95

Entering the top 3 now, and a real surprise here. The Nokia N95 isn’t so much a phone as a tiny computer, with 3G, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5 megapixel camera and DVD-quality video recording thrown in. It’s a miracle of engineering.

The only surprise that it’s been selling so well is the relatively high price of Nokia’s flagship phone and its size. At a time when super-slim designer phones were all the range, Nokia release an all-singing all-dancing phone that’s relatively chunky, and yet still sells by the boat-load. Nokia really can’t do no wrong at the moment.

2). Samsung U700

In case you were wondering where Samsung had got to, here’s your answer – the number two spot! The Samsung U700 is part of Samsung’s super-slim Ultra range, being a super-slim slider. Great features and exceptional looks, this one was bound to sell well.

1). Samsung G600

Finally, the number one spot also goes to Samsung with its 5 megapixel Samsung G600. Another surprise, this, as it too hasn’t been around long, and there wasn’t meant to be any demand for 5 megapixel camera phones in the UK!

However, there are now three of them, with the Nokia N95 also boasting 5 megapixels, and the 5 megapixel Sony Ericsson K850i also going on sale later this week. In a year of mobile phone surprises, the rise of the 5 megapixel camera phone has surely been one of the biggest surprises of all, and Samsung have proven it with the G600 outselling all other mobile phones (at least for Vodafone).

So there we have it – Vodafone’s top selling phones up until October 5th 2007. No Motorola and no LG, either, but this is actually to be expected – Vodafone UK don’t actually sell any LG models, and they only sell one Motorola phone (the Motorola RIZR Z8)!