CNet's top 10 fast selling mobiles in Sep 08 (Asia)

This is the 3rd consecutive month that E71 leads this list. This fact partially reflects the current consumer trend in mobile phones. I think consumers like to use a good looking, slim yet powerful, with keypad (or Qwerty keyboard), and having a familiar OS.
Another highlight is no Nokia Nseries in the list. At almost the same time, Nokia announced a sales drop in 3rd quarter 2008 vs 3rd quarter 2007. Nseries's lack of success is (maybe) the key reason for the drop. Below is the full list:

1. Nokia E71 (3rd month on the top):
I personally love E71 (I have one myself). I love this phone because of its nice looking and manly shape, power (16M color screen - 3G - Wifi - GPS - 3.2mp camera), QWERTY keyboard, steel cover, and some other office functions. I think consumers like this product for the same reason.
Besides, the E71 has a reasonable price which is another reason to help it maintain its leading position (while maybe make Nokia lost some NOS in the 3rd quarter 08 - LOL...).

2. Nokia E66:
Another Nokia phone in the Eseries - which is focusing on business people. While E71 is manly and powerful for businessmen, E66 is nice, simple yet powerful, and slim for businesswomen.
Nokia E66 has almost the same functions as the E71, except the keypad (normal phone number keypad) (E71 has a QWERTY keyboard) and a smaller screen. There're no other differences between these 2 models.
Nokie E66 price is a little higher than the E71, but it's still reasonable. Maybe Nokia thinks that businesswomen are a little richer than businessmen. :) LOL...

3. Samsung F480:
Next to the 2 phones for business people is the camera phone with a big touch screen. With a 5mp camera, the touch screen and an attractive design, Samsung F480 is a great phone for multimedia purposes.
The disadvantages of this phone are no Wifi support, no OS. This phone is purely for multimedia purposes.
Samsung F480 has a little higher price than E71 and E66, but for a touch phone it's still a good price.

4. Sony Ericsson C902:
The 4th position is the same as the previous month. C902 has a 5mp camera like his brother - K850i - but the design and color is much better. It supports 3G and GPS as well.
C902 also has a good music function. Its price is as same as the E71, better than Samsung F480 (maybe since it doesn't have a touch screen).

5. Nokia 6500 slide:
Another Nokia phone, I'm not surprised why this phone lost 3 rankings in September. Having a good design with a steel cover, a stable slider and some other multimedia functions, this phone is a good choice for a lot of simple consumers, who don't need some other functions like GPS, 5mp camera, Wifi...
Since Nokia released some better phones (E71, E66, N78, N96...), this phone is predicted to lose its position in the list step by step.

6. Sony Ericsson W910i:
Lost 1 rank versus last month.
Has a good design and a great music function, supported by some other good functions like 3G, HSPDA, this phone is successfully replacing the W850i to be a great music phone.
The price of W910i is also good, but the music output is not 3.5mm; maybe the Achille's heel of this phone.

7. 3G Iphone:
This phenomenal US phone was launched in Aug 08 in Asia, but not until September did it appear first time in this list. There's not a lot of Telcos to support launching this phone and a high price (with no contract, unlocking) make this phone not as popular as in the US and Europe.
Anyway, with a great touch screen (big as well), I think it still has some chance to grow its ranking if its price will drop in the future (I guess it has to be cheaper when Google G1 phone launches in the near future in Asia).

8. Sony Ericsson W890i:
It's another Walkman phone in Sony Ericssons family. I'm quite surprised why this phone is quite expensive (versus the W910i). I personally love music phones. I love music, but I really don't want to have another mp3 player (besides my mobile phone). To bring an earphone is quite inconvenient with me. But to pay a lot for a simple phone (no Wifi, no GPS, small screen) is something that i'm not willing to do.
Anyway, Sony Ericsson is again proving that its music phones are dominating the music phone market.

9. Sony Ericssons G900:
Another month this phone has the 9th position. With a reasonable price (a little lower than E71 and E66), some office functions, supporting wifi, 5mp camera and a touch screen, the successor of P1i is difficultly climbing step by step to a higher position.
But because of its small screen and single point touch screen, I don't think it will be in the top 5 of this list in the future.

10. Nokia 6300:
I'm quite surprised with this phone. I thought it would disappear from this list, but I was wrong. I know it has a good design and supports some office functions, but it's quite outdated. Anyway, the grey future of the world's economy makes people save more and more maybe the reason why people love this phone.

Generally, this list reflects the consumer trend of last month. I still don't know why Nokia Nseries is still absent from this list. I'm not a big fan of Nokia, but to be fair, I think Nokia N82 or N81 is good and reasonable enough to be in this list. I think they will join the top in the near future. Let's see what happens next month.