DNA and Elisa Finland’s top 10 and top 15 June sales.
First up, here’s Elisa’s top phones by sales for June 2012. 8 out of the top 15 for private customers are Nokia phones. A frightening 5/15 are Samsung. For business customers, 10 out of the top 15 are Nokia. Pretty consistent affair.
The brand spanking new Samsung Galaxy SIII edges out both iPhone 4S and Nokia Lumia series. Oddly, the similarly spec’d OneX does not make the list.
In Finland, Nokia Lumia devices have performed fairly consistently. The coming months will be quite hard as no new Lumia devices are set to appear at least until September 2012 at the earliest.
http://www.elisa.fi/ir/pressi/
index.cfm?t=100&t=100&o=5120& did=18165
Best selling phones to personal customers in June 2012:
1. Samsung Galaxy S III
2 Apple iPhone 4S
3 Nokia Snow 610
4 Nokia Snow 900
5 C2-01 Nokia
6 Samsung Galaxy XCover
7 Nokia Snow 800
8 Nokia Snow 710
9 Samsung Galaxy Gio
10 Nokia 500
, 11 Samsung Galaxy S II
12 The Nokia 300
, 13 Apple iPhone 4
14 Samsung Galaxy Note
15 Nokia C5-00 5MP
Best selling phones for business in June 2012:
1. C2-01 Nokia
2 Nokia Snow 900
3 Nokia Snow 800
4 Apple iPhone 4S
5 The Nokia E7-00
6 Samsung Galaxy S III,
7 Samsung Galaxy Xcover
8 Samsung Xcover 271
9 Nokia C5-00 5MP
10 Nokia Snow 710
11 Nokia Snow 610
12 Nokia E5-00
, 13 Nokia 500
, 14 Nokia E6-00
15 Samsung Galaxy S II
June 2012
1. Samsung Galaxy S III
2 iPhone 4S
3 Samsung E1080 (basic phone)
4 Samsung Galaxy Y
5 Nokia Snow 610
6 The Nokia C 1-C 01 (based on the phone)
7 Samsung Galaxy Xcover
8 Nokia Snow 800
9 Nokia Snow 900
10 Samsung Galaxy S II,
I can’t seem to find any details yet from TeliaSonera.
Cheers Joni for the tip
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I wish Google Translate would stop translating Lumia to Snow, it is not even very usual form for snow, and it is a Finnish womans name too. No, Lumia is not called “Snow” in Finland.
I still can’t believe Nokia 500 lingers so high. Price talks, clearly. And we tech-geeks thought the 500 was the stupidest idea ever…
Strong showing from Samsung. They have done well.
This reminded me to take another look at StatCounter:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-FI-monthly-201201-201207
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-FI-daily-20120101-20120710
June was a strong raise, July so far less but still rising. Now at 9.81% for monthly average. The dailies are peaking over 10% all the time now.
If you look at Elisa’s phone selection, you will see that the 500 is priced the same as Samsung Gio, but it has much superior specs in almost all regards. Elisa has also stopped selling ZTE Blade. So it’s pretty natural the 500 is doing rather well in Finland, where Nokia’s brand is still strong.
What I don’t understand is why the C5-00 5MP still sells so well. It’s only slightly cheaper than for example the C3-01 (which has WiFi and a bigger screen) and much more expensive than the 300 (which has a bigger screen). Since most people who buy it will use it as feature phone, I can’t understand why it’s still so popular when superior touch & type phones exist.
I was trying out the phones in a store in the winter (ended up buying the 700) and found both the keyboard-only (such as the C5-00) and the touch-only (well, the 700 has three buttons as well… ) interfaces more consistent than touch-and-type (C3-01, 300). The latter requires a constant switching between two paradigms and leads to a inconsistent using experience.
For the people upgrading from a dumbphone (like myself) the keyboard interface feels much more natural (similar to what they are already used to) than touch-and-type IMO.
While it is true that the touch and type phones require switching between two different input methods, I personally don’t find that any more disturbing than using both mouse and keyboard on a PC. The keys are there to input textual information (whether numbers or text) and the touch screen is for other kinds of interaction with the UI, just like the mouse on a PC. Scrolling around, launching apps and using a web browser are much faster and more “intuitive” with the touch screen, whereas for text input the physical keys provides tactile feedback and ability to be used blind if necessary.
same here. using the E7/ E6 is a joy – it comes so much more naturally than typing onscreen.
Other then my old and broken 5310, which I still love, the C5-00 5MP is the best looking soap bar key only phone yet. I am tempted to buy one before all soap bar key only phones are gone. Too badthe E55 slim qwerty never came to HK.
When the 500 is at a sub-$100 price, it’s not a bad device. Asha 311 is going to have to hit that price point fast as well.
from my limited understanding, the oneX does not have a microsd card, a locked bootloader, which many of the android sites i visit seem to have an issue with.
maybe thats why fans dont respond to it well?
The Android users want’s freedom to use the device as they see fit. Any kind of lockdown is a big no go for many of them. This is one of the reasons that former Symbian users are migrating to e.g. Samsung phones.
MS WP strategy seems to focus on the interests of MS, then the carriers, the developers and if convenient on the users right to use the device they have paid for. No amount of smoothness is sufficient to entice some of us to buy a WP phone.
Android devices are expected to have a malware pandemic by year end. As a former Symbian user who used f secure as it blocked all the attacks from malware and keeps a record of the number of attacks, there is no way I would ever go back to Android from Windows. It is not my desire to have my bank account cleaned out, unexpected billing charges or visits from police because my phone is used for malware, botnet or Trojans caused by it being anAndroid. Windows seems to care about customer safety,while google on the other hand doesn’t.
expect Windows Phone receiving a lot of atention from the Virus world, especially if it really share a lot of tech with Windows 8… Anyway… most malware on Android got their way trough Social Enginnering, it’s incredible that still in the running days there’re mens that believe into the penis enlargement E-Mail…
It’s the price you pay for being the number 1, you receive a lot of attention (the good & and the bad ones)
MS has experience with the malware issue though, all their systems are now locked down a lot more so as not to be as susceptible.
“Android devices are expected to have a malware pandemic by year end”
that’s the anti-virus marketing and the usual scare mongering. they had the same warnings for symbian. users are responsible for side loading. apart from occasional malware on google play – most of which are privacy related flags, it’s not doomsday as yet.
more good news, especially from the business preferences,
if business likes it now, imagine how much more when w8/wp8 gets released,
HTC has never been very popular in Finland. They had nearly zero presence before they started to make Android phones (WinMo had a miniscule market share) and despite a TV marketing campaign (which was lame and bland) last year, they really haven’t been able to compete with Samsung. Samsung’s brand is much stronger in general thanks to wide presence in consumer electronics, and even before 2009 they actually were selling some phones in Finland (albeit mostly cheap basic phones back then).
Yeah, I think Samsung has sort of replaced the position Sony used to have in Finnish consumer electronics. The brand is very well respected here nowadays and for good reason too. I do think Samsung is a copy-cat company in many areas, but they have merit too.
There is no shame is copying if you do it well.
True. I think Nokia is much too
1) slow
2) proud
to copy. They’ll be too proud to notice the change they need to do and when they realise it, they’ll move as slowly as possible.
Samsung just sees what’s popular, produces similar (if not identical) products, gets away with it, gets cash and consumers interested. It doesn’t matter if they have to pay fines or whatever in the long run as mindshare is priceless.
Good artist copy, great artists steal.
So, Samsung copies and Google steals.
Then no wonder their colaboration produced great devices (not for me anyway)
Ha!
“There is no shame is copying if you do it well.”
i’m thinking of apple
Apple does it so well that many people think that they actually invented it…
Nokia Snow… nice
I maintain that the C5-00 is one of the most underrated phones Nokia ever made. Too bad it was buggy as shit when they released it!
Considering that the original C5-00 was just a slightly modified 6730 classic, I don’t know how it could be seriously underrated. It did have a revamped home screen and better numpad than it’s predecessor, but I don’t know if those were worth the bugs introduced, even if it was cheaper than the 6730 classic.
Now, the C5-00 5MP is a much better phone thanks to more mature software and loads of memory (for an S60 3.2 phone), so I might agree that it’s somewhat underrated. But then again, it’s a numpad phone with 2.2″ screen launched in Q3 2011, which makes me think it’s overpriced even today.
Never used the 6730 Classic so can’t fully comment, but based on google images it doesn’t appear to be anywhere near as slick.
Funny though you mentioned the TWO PRIMARY POINTS OF INPUT, the “revamped home screen” and the “better numpad,” and then immediately dismiss them out of hand?! Haha geez dude, get some fresh air. I could give 2 craps about the memory inside of it, that’s not what made the phone.
The bugs were a laundry list of stupid bullshit that made you want to throw the thing out the window. Most if not all of which were fixed 6 mo’s – 1 yr after release.
Well, I have heard bad things about the C5-00 from people who bought it in 2010 and used it extensively. While I agree that the new home screen and the better numpad were improvements, they were let down by the buggy initial firmware. I have not used it that much, but the numpad is really good, I give you that much.
Yep, exactly. What a shame and very emblematic of the troubles with “old nokia” pushing terribly buggy phones out the door
On a slightly related tangent (now that we’re discussing Nokia’s models), Nokia has finally removed N8 and E7 as well as several other older models from their Finnish product page – they were still there a couple of weeks ago. The product list is down from three pages to just barely over two.
http://www.nokia.com/fi-fi/tuotteet/kaikki-puhelimet/
C2-02 and C2-05 are now the last non-three-numbered phones listed.
The global site doesn’t list the C2 models anymore (but does list the dual-SIMs not listed in Finland):
http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phones-catalogue/
I think Nokia’s product range is clearing up finally to a point where at least there is some clarity and separation of Asha, Belle and Lumia product-lines.
Nokia India page still lists four pages worth of Nokia phones:
http://www.nokia.com/in-en/products/all-products/
I wonder what that means in practice. The N8, E6 and E7 are still widely available in Finland, not to mention the C2-01, C3-01, X3-02, C5-00 5MP and the E5-00. Some of those are less than one year old in their current configuration (namely the C3-01, X3-02 an C5-00 5MP).
I am wondering if that means that the manufacturing of the recently unlisted models has ended or have they simply trimmed down the product pages the Finnish Nokia pages in a somewhat arbitrary manner (the C2-02 is not newer than the C5-00 5MP for example). I would not be surprised if it’s just that. In the old days Nokia often listed older phones, which in practice had very limited availability and had not been manufactured for a long time. Doing the exact opposite of the OPK era would fit the Elopian Nokia’s style…