Christmas 2007 - Cell Phone Wish List

There will be literally millions of cell phones purchased in the month of December, and many of those will be activated on December 25th (I suggest opening Christmas Eve, to avoid a bit of the holiday load on the servers).

In an effort to help out our industry, here are lists of top phones/hot phones and the sites that are hosting them. Keep in mind as you shop and consider changing carriers: the US carriers have now changed their policies on termination fees making it less expensive to do so. So if you really want an iPhone, it may be worth it to terminate and move to ATT.

• Amazon.com - Best Christmas Gifts for 2007 (Cell Phones)
• Phonescoop - Holiday Gift Guide 2007 (Cell phone recommendations ranked by age of consumer and by Features such as Showoffs, Head Boppers, Shutterbugs, Texters, Netizens)
• Buy.com - Hottest phones for Holidays (Unlocked GSM Phones)
• CNET - Top 5 Phones (Reviewed by editor)

Best Selling Mobile Phones Of The Third Quarter

The Strategy Analytics ProductTRAX program released its Q3, 2007 list of top selling consumer handsets in the US market. Motorola and LG accounted for seven of the top best selling consumer handsets.

US Q3 2007, Best Selling Consumer Handsets:

Motorola RAZR V3
Motorola RAZR V3m
LG VX8300
Apple iPhone
LG Chocolate VX8550
Motorola MOTOKRZR K1m
Samsung SYNC SGH-A707
LG VX5300
Sanyo Katana II
Motorola V323i/V325i

"3G devices accounted for 55% of these top selling device volumes. That share will continue to grow during Q4," states Chris Ambrosio, a Director in the Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics. "While the iPhone gets the headlines, the "Sync" from Samsung and the "Chocolate" from LG quietly stole the show in the category of iconic, 3G feature phones. Samsung, in particular, is well-positioned to dominate 3G sales during the critical Q4 holiday season."

I've said it before, but the continued success of the RAZR is just incredible (in July of 2006 Motorola announced they had sold 50 million units). I realize that it is now a "free" phone but for it to still be the #1 phone in the US after all this time is unbelievable.