ThreePay bombs out of handset chart

[3GScottishUser]

Mobile Today Tracker Panel PrePay Handset Sales Chart (08/08/2005):

1 (5) Nokia 6610i Subtle Nokia.

2 (2) Nokia 6230 Selling well on Orange.

3 (1) Nokia 1100 Basic but popular.

4 (4) Nokia 3220 Bubblegum phone.

5 (9) Motorola V220 Stalwart Moto clamshell.

6 (2) Nokia 3410 Entry price point.

7 (-) Nokia 3200 Blue Peter stylings.

8 (11) Samsung E330 Revived handset.

9 (-) Siemens C65V Siemens’ new prepay.

10 (18) Nokia 3100 Colour candybar.

10 (-) Sagem myX-2 Basic.

10 (12) Samsung X460 Colour clamshell.

13 (5) Nokia 3510i Universal appeal.

14 (-) Motorola V500 Good value.

15 (9) Nokia 3120 Simple Nokia.

16 (-) Nokia 2650 Snake-belly folder.

16 (-) Sendo S360 Vodafone Sendo.

18 (14) Sharp GX15 It’s a-Live!.

18 (-) Nokia 3510 Simple Nokia.

20 (-) Samsung D500 Stylish slider.

(Not a single 3G handset listed. Looks like 3G pre-pay is on hold for now).

[Bleubean]

Im really looking forward for pre-pay 3G to begin to flow into the shops! I think once all the networks launch their prepay offerings we will start to see a "3G WAR". At the moment Three dominate the prepay market for 3G so customers dont have much of a choice. I think once the other networks launch prepay will be the day when the networks really go to war on a 3G scale!

[Ben]

Not a single Threepay? Omg! Surely there must be stock problems or something - Threepay were dominating the pre-pay market at one stage were they not?

Interesting that the more expensive phones like the D500 take a bashing right down to 20th place when it comes to pre-pay while the Nokias seem to rule to the roost. How the hell is the 3510 on there though! lmao.

[3g-g]

Gotta say, I bought my brother a new PAYG phone a few weeks back, I offered him a fancy new 3 pay video phone, video messaging, MMS, cheap texts/calls the lot.. and what did he pick? A Nokia 3510 on Orange.

Amazingly, and he's only 16, he said he didn't want a phone that credit expired on as he doesn't use it that much, (didn't know he had sense) that and the handsets were "bricks", his words, not mine.

[fozzie]

3PAY handsets ..... the range at the cheaper end of the market is pretty crap at the moment - e338 or c975.

e338 looks ok .... never had the inclination to acquire one due to past experience with NEC an the c975 has very small memory when first bought.

To be honest there is nothing to appeal to the pocket money spenders that the e228 or e313 had in terms of price.

[Jon3G]

The handset range really needs to improve. However you cant blame 3 if none of the decent handsets manafactures want to go with them.