by Lisa Jacobs

Created on: December 30, 2010

Was 2010 the year of the iPhone, the BlackBerry or the HTC? It is the end of 2010 and we can look back at a successful year for the mobile phone industry. 2010 was the year of the rise of the tablets. Bus also the mobile phone market has had a great year. In Holland the market grew with 35% in the third quarter. The sales of smartphones was double as high as last year. Every year Typhone publishes a 

Top 10 GSM phones list. In this list you will find the best selling phones in the Netherlands in 2010.

This year we find on the list a lot of smartphones. In Holland the sales of the smartphones is rising. The list mainly consists of smartphones. All the phones in the top 10 have access to internet, can receive and sent emails and have the ability to connect to social media platforms like twitter and facebook. Some phones are more advanced then others but they are all very versatile.

In the list you will find the best selling phones but also the phones that are rated as best by the customers.

iPhone 4: the champion again.

The first place in the list is (not really a surprise) for Apple with the iPhone 4. In 2008 and 2009 the iPhone was also the best selling and most popular phone in Holland and now with the iPhone 4 Apple is still the best selling smartphone. In 2 days time Apple sold more than 10.000 iPhone 4's in Holland. Apple is the fourth biggest smartphone producer in the world.

At the beginning of 2010 Apple told us that with the iPhone 4 they reinvented the iPhone. The iPhone 4 is smaller then the 3G's but has a better battery. With the iPhone 4 you can call 2 hours longer or listen 10 hours longer to your favorite music. The touchscreen has four times more pixels then the 3G and has a fast 1 Ghz processor. So maybe Apple was right that the have reinvented the iPhone.

Remarkable number 10

It must have something to do with the design of the Samsung S7070, but nobody expected that this phone would even be in a top 10 mobile phones of 2010. The Samsung Diva is a a phone with not as much of functionalities like the other smartphones on the list. But that must be one of the unique selling points of this "ladyphone". A great design and not to expensive.

In the list you will find a lot of BlackBerry, HTC and Nokia phones. Samsung is also in the list with the Samsung Galaxy S. Do you want to see the whole list? Check: Top 10 best GSM phones.

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