Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Tops Chart As UK’s No.1 Selling Portable Music Player!
On the way into work this morning, I saw this ad on the side of a London bus this morning proclaiming that God was awesome.
Which was…interesting.
I also saw an advert on another bus proclaiming the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic as the UK’s biggest selling portable music player. I remember thinking, “Wow, that sounds like Nokia are directly comparing the 5800 to iPod sales. That can’t be true!”
Turns out it is. The number crunchers at GFK Retail and Technology have the Nokia 5800 at the top spot in 2009 for both volume and value between January and March in the UK, with 2.6 million sold!
This was enough to beat the sky-high sales of even Apple’s iPod, making it indeed this year’s best selling portable music player.
Why so serious successful? The combination of an aggressive low-end price point, the appeal of a unique and edgy Nokia and the 3.5mm headphone jack all make the 5800 a genuine alternative to an iPod in the pockets of cool kids…
That being said, blanket TV advertising and recruiting Britain’s Got Talent winner George Samson to invent a new dance in the handset’s honour can’t have hurt!
With Nokia pumping out one million units per month across the world, the success of Nokia’s first touch screen phone is showing no signs of abating in the immediate future.
Check out our Nokia 5800 XpressMusic deals to catch the biggest music player on the market at the smallest price!
Source: Mobile Today
Tags: 5800, 5800 xpressmusic, Nokia, Nokia 5800, xpressmusic
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