Motorola, LG, iPhone Tops in U.S. Handset Sales

FierceMobileContent posted an up-to-date list of the 10 top-selling handsets in the U.S. The iPhone comes in at #4, while seven of the others are either Motorola or LG-branded models. Here’s the full list:

# Motorola RAZR V3
# Motorola RAZR V3m
# LG VX8300
# Apple iPhone
# LG Chocolate VX8550/8500
# Motorola MOTOKRZR K1m
# Samsung SGH-A707
# LG VX5300
# Sanyo Katana II
# Motorola V323i/V325i

Motorola is in trouble lately; they recently slipped to #3 in global (as opposed to U.S.) handset sales, with Nokia and Samsung on top. Despite the above list, the company is still in trouble: “Motorola, however, despite selling four of the top ten models in Q3, realized an ASP of only $80, nearly 40 percent lower than the group average,” said Barry Gilbert, Vice President of the ProductTRAX services at Strategy Analytics, in the report. That’s because they decided long enough to over-saturate the market in free RAZRs and RAZR-derived variations, rather than keeping prices high, and without a successful new model launch since the original 2004 RAZR.

Report: Top selling phones in US: RAZR, iPhone [FierceMobileContent]

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