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Most popular smartphones in Hong Kong: iPhone 3G and Samsung Omnia December 30, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Thanks God Nokia wins only in their own category, i.e. Symbian S60 - Symbian previously was a puppet of Nokia and now is fully owned by Nokia - it shows that there is no point in licensing Symbian at all! Message to smartphone manufacturers is crystal clear: it does not pay to license Symbian at all. Use Windows Mobile and/or Google Android instead! When it comes to Windows Mobile phones: although HTC is very popular in Hong Kong, the users prefer Samsung OMNIA. If you read the figures, the HTC Diamond cannot compete with Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 too (the original is in Chinese, but we have English version!): Information from the source follows below. * * * * * iPhone 3G rocks and Samsung OMNIA wins My Favorite Mobile Phones for Hong Kong Netizens Announced Hong Kong is one the most advanced cities in Asia. Peoples in Hong Kong like mobile phones very much. The number of mobile phone subscribers in September 2008 in Hong Kong was 11,280,872, more than the 7 millions population. It means that one person may have more than one mobile phone. Hong Kong users' favorite represents the taste of both Chinese and peoples in Asia. So, in 2008, what is the most popular mobile phone model in Hong Kong? ePrice.com.hk, a leading mobile phone information website conducted a survey on "My Favorite Mobile Phones 2008" last week from 23 Dec to 29 Dec. After 6 days of votes, the final award goes to the Apple iPhone 3G! The survey also shows the other popular phones according to different types. 5 more awards have been presented. Over 2000 netizens voted The survey on "My Favorite mobile phones 2008" includes 6 categories:
The Awards, Winners and Nominees are all listed below: 1) The Grand Award: My Favorite Mobile Phone Winner: Apple iPhone 3G (728 votes) Nominee: LG KS20, HTC Touch Cruise, HTC Touch Diamond, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N96, Samung F488, Samsung OMNIA i908, Sony Ericsson G900, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 2) Award: My Favorite Windows Mobile SmartPhone Winner: Samsung OMNIA i908 (696 votes) Nominee: LG KS20, HTC Touch Cruise, HTC Touch Diamond, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 3) Award: My Favorite S60 SmartPhone Winner: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (1201 votes) Nominee: Nokia 6220 Classic, Nokia N78, Nokia N96, Nokia E71 4) Award: My Favorite Music Phone Winner: Apple iPhone 3G (850 votes) Nomiee: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Sony Ericsson W380i, Sony Ericsson W890i, Sony Ericsson W980. 5) Award: My Favorite Camera Phone Winner: Sony Ericsson C905 (873 votes) Nominee: Nokia N85, Nokia N96, Samsung G808, Sony Ericsson C902 6) Award: My Favorite Feature Phone Winner: Samsung Touchwiz F488 (832 votes) Nominee: LG KF700, Sharp SX862, Sony Ericsson W380i, Sony Ericsson W980. From the result, Apple iPhone 3G is the true winner. It got 2 awards from music Phone to the grand award, My Favorite Phone for 2008. Samsung is another winner too. It got two awards, the OMNIA and F488. Interestingly, both Samsung awarded phone are using touch interface. ePrice.com.hk also presented the 7th award on My favorite mobile phone in grey market. The awards goes to Softbank 920SH from Japanese. At the same time, the top 100 mobile phones are listed too. The result is the also abstracted from the click rate report of ePrice.com.hk mobile phone data based. To know more about the "My Favorites Mobile Phone 2008 for Hong Kong Netizens Awards 2008", visit http://www.eprice.com.hk Crediet: Paul Matt from threegmobile.net, Hong Kong.
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