Nielsen studies television viewing and now is finding out all sorts of information about cell phone sand smartphones.
About one of every seven American households (15%) owns at least one smartphone, according to survey findings from Nielsen's. Nielsen's top mobile phones of the year are topped by the iPhone 3G, BlackBerry Curve, and Motorola RAZR which currently is the top recycled phone.
The list covers phone currently owned and used. It will be interesting to see how the Wireless and Mobile News' Top Ten Best Coolest Smartphones of 2009 fair in the next few years with Nielsen's survey of cell phone owners.
| Top 10 Mobile Phones in Use (U.S.) - January -October 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| RANK | Device | Embedded Base of All Subscribers |
| 1 | Apple 3G iPhone 4.0% | 4.0% |
| 2 | RIM BlackBerry 8300 Series (Curve, 8310, 8320, 8330, 8350i) | 3.7% |
| 3 | Motorola RAZR V3 series (V3, V3c, V3m, V3i, V3i DG, V3) | 2.3% |
| 4 | LG VX9100 (enV2) | 2.1% |
| 5 | LG Voyager | 1.7% |
| 6 | Samsung SPH-M540 (Rant) | 1.5% |
| 7 | RIM BlackBerry 9530 series (Storm) | 1.4% |
| 8 | LG VX9700 (Dare) | 1.3% |
| 9 | LG Vu series (CU915, CU920) | 1.3% |
| 10 | RIM BlackBerry 8100 series (Pearl, 8110, 8120, 8129) | 1.2% |
| Source: The Nielsen Company | ||