Nokia's 6230 Phone To Be Best Selling Mid-Range Product Ever

[TheZodiac]

I thoguht that was an interesting claim. Anyone agree? I stand undecided, because I am a communicator type phone user. Though I like the phone and it offers allot.


STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia Corp.'s (NOK) 6230 multimedia phone was the company's best-selling handset in terms of revenue in the second quarter and has the potential to become the best-selling mid-range phone ever, Chief Strategy Officer Matti Alahuhta said at an investor conference late Tuesday.

The Finnish company - the world's largest handset maker - sold 1.5 million Nokia 6230s in the second quarter, according to documents provided for the conference. Alahuhta said that sales currently were twice as large as those Nokia projected in January, before the phone started shipping.

Nokia has problems producing as many phones as customers want due to constraints with the supply of components. Alahuhta said the component situation had improved but there was still more demand than supply.

Nokia's clam-shell phone, the 7200, was the company's No. 5 in terms of revenue in the second quarter.

Alahuhta said that Nokia had been slow to get clam-shell phones to market, noting that such handsets currently represent around 30% of the total global market.

Nokia's objective to increase market share in the third quarter and reverse a slide in the first half of the year is on track.

Alahuhta said he is now "more positive than six weeks ago that this will happen." Nokia's strategy has been to selectively cut prices on its phones to regain market share.

In the second quarter, the company's market share was 29.7%, down from the 35.6% in the second quarter of 2003, but up from the 28.9% share it had in the first quarter of 2004, according to research from Gartner Inc.

Despite the price cuts, Alahuhta said margins on the affected models had remained healthy.

Alahuhta said smartphones, or phones that have computer-like capabilities, represent a significant opportunity and that Nokia is "extremely well positioned" in this market.

Nokia estimates the market for smartphones will be around 23 million units in 2004 and will grow to 238 million units in 2008.

Alahuhta said external analysts had put Nokia's market share of smartphones at 35%.

Nokia has a 15% share of the market for the digital mobile technology known as Code Division Multiple Access and is now increasingly giving attention to the two largest customers in that market - Verizon Wireless (VRZ.XX) and China Unicom Ltd. (CHU).


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[Sid]

What about the T610? I've seen a hell of a lot of them around.

[prateek]

hey i think the t610 and the 6600 are a lot in the market
t610 after the cost reduction has been selling like hot cakes and the 6600 too
i havnt seen much of the 7200 though

[phoney]

seen a lot of t610's and 6230's i swear they are mating or something.

[TheZodiac]

I have seen tons of T610s also. No N6230s though. Its just to damn expensive. Its not even offered in the US with a carrier. I guess maybe they dont see a market for it. I can see ATT offering it, with all their diversity in handsets. But since they are being gobbled up soon, I doubt it. I think it needs a bolt on KB :-D Kind of like the one the T300 had a while back. Even though its not nessaging-centric, just another way to make it sttractive to the crowd. Knwoing Nokia though, they would charge $50 for the thing. Jezxeeeessssss........

[arn]

I've seen a lot of n6600

[zalameh1]

apart from the people i sold my 6230s to, ive only seen one person carrying it..

[DEViANT]

I agree with the T610 being a good phone. I wouldn't use one because of that passive-matrix screen but it offers a lot of features in a very nice small package and it's cheap offering top value for money.

The 6600 is quite popular but so many people don't appreciate it's full value and use it purely as a phone, when it's so much more, plus it's been out for a fair while now (a bit like the T610) so it's no wonder it's around so much.

I've seen a reasonable amount of 6230s but not too many (which is good, because a ridiculously popular phone loses it's appeal to an extent - which is why rare phones like the 8850, 8910 and V70 still have good value). Part of the reason being it's price and short-supply (initial). Now that prices are falling it's popularity is rising, but regardless, to many, it's still the phone everyone wants (bar true-smartphone users). It does function as an MP3 player pretty well and it has radio, Bluetooth, camera (with video) and MMC slot - if it had Symbian OS, it would be a proper killer so the 6260 probably will do very well.

[francisofarabia]

I've seen a reasonable amount of 6230s but not too many ...Now that prices are falling it's popularity is rising, but regardless, to many, it's still the phone everyone wants (bar true-smartphone users). It does function as an MP3 player pretty well and it has radio, Bluetooth, camera (with video) and MMC slot - if it had Symbian OS, it would be a proper killer so the 6260 probably will do very well.
not all people wants symbian, well for me, a big no to the Series 60...

the 6230 fast OS and that full functionality did it for me...

the only advantage of S60 is the bigger screen and the hordes of applications, but those applications will always be used rarely, to the point that they are just novelty... symbian enabled smart-phones/devices to be useful must have a proper input device like touch screen or qwerty keyboard, otherwise the OS just becomes a novelty, full capabilities not being used...

duh, i also hate it when S60 menu, slows down... 1 of the reasons i ditch SE is because of their fuc*ng slow menu, the S60 slow menu is also unacceptable, well just my 0.2 cents...

... but i do like S80 and UIQ :)

[kaebee]

i agree regarding the T610. aside from its very affordable price, the fone for me is the most complete, (except for the radio).
havent seen much of the 6230 here in the philippines. I wonder if nokia will be releasing more of the black case for it, rather than just the siliver one.
im waiting for the flip phones of nokia to come out before i buy a N6230, so that its price will go down... :p its just too darn expensive now... 24 thousand pesos here....

[francisofarabia]

EU versions are mostly black (graphite to be exact), look for euro version then, should be available in vira-mall, i think???

[kaebee]

EU versions are mostly black (graphite to be exact), look for euro version then, should be available in vira-mall, i think???

hehehe, seems like you've been here already :p virramall fones are cheap, but not exactly reliable... :p
but thanks for the tip!

[commedecargons]

I just bought three phones last week. K700, N6600 and T610. I got the T610 (ruby) for RM550. Imagine that. Well i also see tons of T610. 6230..... saw a couple of them when it was just launched (only those: Oh my, Nokia-just-launched-a-new-phone type of person getting it; most of them changed to 7610 already, or P900) P900 although phasing out soon, causes quite a stir to the general phone users (to me, 'general' are those who dunno mobile phone forums exists type of person.) :D

[-Chin_Chai-]

I got the T610 (ruby) for RM550.

Where did you bought it? 2nd or 1st hand?

[Ruler_70]

Here in SA there are a lot of people with T610's, 6600's and 6230's, also 3100 and 3200's are very common.

[zalameh1]

here in newzealand, everyone has the 3315s...
i wouldve thought that the 3310 and its variants wouldve sold more than the 6230....

[DEViANT]

here in newzealand, everyone has the 3315s...
i wouldve thought that the 3310 and its variants wouldve sold more than the 6230....

Well, you're probably right, but the '3310 and its variants' are strictly low-end phones and the 6230 is definitely mid-high end.

[Box215]

here in newzealand, everyone has the 3315s...
i wouldve thought that the 3310 and its variants wouldve sold more than the 6230....

Also, the since the 3100 is a low-end phone, it costs less than the 6230, and therefore the revenue made from the phone will be less.

[Ruler_70]

Yup here in SA jst about everyone that doesnt have a colour screen, either has a 3310 or a Siemens A50.

[commedecargons]

Where did you bought it? 2nd or 1st hand?

New set. AP thou......

[-Chin_Chai-]

New set. AP thou......


Wher did you bought it?

[Ahmad007]

The 6230 here costs around $350 which is a very good price, no wonder it became popular.