Wirefly Announces the Ten Most Popular Cell Phones of 2006.-- Online Wireless Leader Releases Annual Top 10 List and Reviews Market Trends -- WASHINGTON -- Wirefly (www.wirefly.com), an online leader in one-stop comparison shopping for cell phones and wireless phone plans, today announced which phones were in highest demand by consumers in 2006. "Given the continuing popularity of that iconic, slim Motorola phone month after month, it should come as no surprise that the top selling cell phone in 2006 was once again the Motorola RAZR," said Wirefly's President Brian Westrick. Wirefly's List of Top 10 Cell Phones: 1. Cingular RAZR by Motorola (in various colors) 2. T-Mobile RAZR (in various colors) 3. Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. RAZR (in various colors) 4. Cingular Sony Ericsson For an arrangement of Sony Ericsson products, see list of Sony Ericsson products Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. z520a/z525a video phones 5. T-Mobile Motorola v360 6. Verizon Wireless Motorola v276 7. Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. With 55 million subscribers, Sprint Nextel operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States (based on total wireless customers), behind Motorola i850 8. Sprint Nextel Motorola i710 9. Cingular Motorola v220 10. T-Mobile Samsung T309 Wirefly's Westrick continued, "Wirefly has great insight into cell phone trends and more importantly, consumer buying behavior in the wireless market today. Wirefly.com has increasingly become a bellwether for consumer trends in wireless, as tens of thousands of people purchase cell phones and rate plans on Wirefly every month after comparing hundreds of phone models from all the major carriers." One year ago, Wirefly predicted 5 trends expected to become even more popular in 2006 (http://www.wirefly.net/articles/106/cell-phone-trends-2005.htm). Read how this past year compared to our predictions. 1. Music and mobile TV phones Indeed, 9 out of the top 10 cell phones sold by Wirefly in 2006 were camera phones. In addition, many new models introduced and advertised in 2006 placed a heavy emphasis on music capabilities, including Walkman branded phones. In December 2006, 30 percent of all phones shipped by Wirefly had built-in music capabilities. 2. Bigger selection of smartphones with more robust operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. While small and slim continued to be an overwhelming trend, 2006 did see the introduction of exciting smartphones like the Cingular-branded smartphones, the Treo 700 series, the Motorola Q The Motorola Q is a Windows Mobile smartphone first announced in the Summer of 2005 as a thin device with similar styling to Motorola's immensely popular RAZR. Motorola in a partnership with Verizon Wireless released the Q on May 31, 2006[1]. , T-Mobile MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. , the Blackberry Pearl The BlackBerry Pearl (8100) is a mobile phone developed by Research In Motion, and the first Blackberry device with a camera and other multimedia features. It was released in Q3 of 2006. The Pearl is a quad-band GSM device. Specifications
3. Cell phones designed for children Not only did Wirefly see strong growth in sales of phones made just for kids, but increasingly services are being introduced targeted specifically to kids and parents. In late 2006, Wirefly inked a deal with Disney Mobile Disney Mobile is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator in the United States which launched in June of 2006, and will cease operating on December 31, 2007. It operates on Sprint's CDMA network. Disney Mobile is owned by The Walt Disney Company, which had marketed to family subscribers. , which is now a featured carrier on the Wirefly site. 4. Expanded GPS services Closely related to the trend in children's cell phones are the expanded GPS geo-location services that were heavily targeted to parents, including Sprint and Disney's locator systems and alerts. The fourth quarter of 2006 also saw a significant increase in marketing of GPS services by the cell phone carriers themselves. Services like turn-by-turn driving directions featured heavily in merchandising by Sprint and Verizon Wireless, and Wirefly expects to see this trend continue. For great deals on today's hottest cell phones, visit www.wirefly.com. About Wirefly Launched in 2003, Wirefly (www.wirefly.com) is an online leader in one-stop comparison shopping for cell phones, wireless service plans and wireless accessories. A wholly-owned subsidiary of InPhonic, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :INPC INPC ITU National Point Code INPC Internet Non-Profit Center ), Wirefly is an authorized dealer for every major cellular carrier, including Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint. Wirefly also offers discounts and services not available in retail wireless stores, including real-time online order status and tracking, and the guaranteed lowest price - online or anywhere else -- on cell phone devices from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, LG, BlackBerry and many other cell phone handset manufacturers. Wirefly.com has been named Best of the Web by Forbes magazine as the "best all-around number portability See NP. portal" and "Best in Overall Customer Experience" by Keynote Performance Systems. For more information on Wirefly, its wireless products and its services, visit www.wirefly.com. Click here to join our email alert list: http://www.b2i.us/irpass.asp?BzID=1461&to=ea&s=0 "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement - Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995, this press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors, which could cause actual operating results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, are detailed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made from time to time by the Company. This press release and statements are current as of the date of the individual announcements and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date thereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. |
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