Roger Entner, Nielsen Telecom
Nokia: the name is synonymous with mobile phone innovation and leadership everywhere in the world but in the US.  Its handsets comprise about 40 percent of the worldwide marketplace. It has not always been this way.  Once the leading brand of phone in the US, Nokia’s share of the market has dropped to about 10 percent.  Brands such as LG, Samsung, Blackberry, Motorola and Apple’s iPhone tend to lead in market share and mindshare respectively.
But cell phones have evolved a great deal since Nokia was a major …

Nielsen has issued a year-end look at the most popular trends among Americans during 2008, covering everything from the top TV programs to the most popular consumer packaged goods.
Motorola’s RAZR V3 series handset was easily the most popular mobile phone in use in the U.S., as of Q3 2008.
In October, more than 15.2 million American mobile Internet users visited Yahoo! Mail, making it the most popular mobile Web destination that month.  Google Search, which drew more than 10.5 million mobile Internet users in October, ranked second. 
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