By Herman Lai, posted Mar 24, 2011 at 9:56 AM, 3,161 views,

10 Most Popular Cellphones on Taobao

Taobao (淘宝网) is the largest and the most successful online shopping platform in China operated by Alibaba Group. And the company has announced its best selling smartphones on their platform. In the meantime, it gives you some ideas of what kind of smartphone does Chinese like to buy.

10. Nokia C7

We would say Nokia C7 is beautifully designed, which has a great 3.5-inch 360 x 640 AMOLED touchscreen, runs ARM 11 processor with 3D graphics accelerator. It has a built-in 8 mega-pixel camera but users are saying it is well below expectation, and its OS Symbian is not business friendly as well. Bluetooth, 3G, USB, GPS, microSD are available on Nokia C7. On Taobao, it priced at $2100 Chinese Yuan ($300).

Here is the link to purchase on Taobao.

9. Sony Ericsson X10

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is one of the best Android phone that Sony produced early last year. It looks sleek, makes fan feel good. Beside, it has quality hardware backing up its cool outlooking, features a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 8.0 megapixel built-in camera, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, runs Android 1.6. And it is now selling for around $2590 RMB ($370) on Taobao.

8. Nokia 5800W

This 3.2-incher is selling really cheap on Taobao, it is just around $1460 RMB (around $209). It is the first smartphone approach on Symbian 9.4 series 60 5th. Beside, it did an excellent job with its multimedia (Music player) but it has a poor battery life though.

Here is the link to purchase on Taobao.

7. HTC Wildfire(G8)

HTC Wildfire G8 aimed at the high-end Android smartphones market, its unique design and stable performance have attracted lots of buyers who doesn’t want to follow the crowds of purchasing an iPhone. The machine renders a 3.2-inch 320×240 res display, runs 528MHz Qualcomm MSM 7225 and a 5.0 megapixel built-in camera.

Here is the link to purchase on Taobao, price is between $1670 – $1830 yuans (around $223 – $261).

6. Apple iPhone 3Gs (16GB)

Apparently, Apple did a great job in the Chinese market with iPhone 4 sales, but it won’t just cover the rest of the iProduct. And the classic masterpiece iPhone 3Gs is unforgettable, this smartphone is still selling well in China. For now, it priced roughly around $3180 yuans ($424).

Here is the link to purchase on Taobao.

5. HTC Desire HD (G10)

Well, we would say HTC Desire HD is one of the best Android smartphone that HTC owns. It equips a WVGA 4.3-inches capacitive touchscreen, supports multi-touch, pre-installed Android 2.2, has a built-in 8.0 mp camera which capable of recording HD video. The price of HTC Desire HD is even higher than iPhone 3Gs, probably around $3420 RMB (about $489).

Here is the link to purchase on Taobao.

4. Nokia N8

Nokia N8 has multiples of colour to choose from, making it looks stylish and cool. The good thing about N8 is outstanding 12 mega-pixel camera, but not appreciated with the half-baked Symbian^3. In fact, everything on N8 is not bad, but only recommended to people looking for a basic phone. And, Nokia N8 has caught many unwitting buyers attentions on Taobao. With the price, N8 is now available at $2620 yuan on Taobao, the cheapest possibly.

3. HTC Desire G7

HTC Desire G7 is another Android smartphone that gets consumers’ attention. The device boosts a 3.7-inch 800×400 AMOLED touchscreen, runs Android 2.1 and bases on a 1GHz processor with 576MB of RAM. The performance of G7 is average, and price tagged at $2690 Chinese yuan (around $359) available on Taobao.

2. Nokia 5230

This is one of the classic! Nokia 5230 has occupied the top rank on Taobao for a while already, and probably now is the time for it to step down. The phone launched back in 2009, its specs doesn’t sound any good to us now along with other superior smartphone jumps into the market. The reason that it kept stay at the top of the rank is due to the popularity of its brand and the price. With the recent price spotted on Taobao, it is only selling for $890 RMB (around $119), and one of the seller had made 7000 deals already.

1. Motorola ME525 (Defy)

Here comes the hottiest phone on Taobao, and that’s Motorola ME525. It is good at water resist, but not waterproof due to weak spot with its headphone jack. In general, the device is powered by Android 2.1 with a 5 megapixel autofocus cam, LED flash, 800MHz TI OMAP3610 core, and a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 display. Well, that’s the most popular cellphone in the Chinese market, and now it is available on Taobao at $2480 RMB (around $331), it is worthwhile and affordable!

Conclusion

As a result, we noticed most of the Chinese online shoppers tend to buy Android-powered smartphone, which making us felt curious why iPhone 4 is not even exist on the ranking while there is insufficient supply of iPhone 4 in the Chinese market.

Source: PConline