Revealed: The top 50 mobile and cell phone websites

by Patrick Altoft on August 16, 2006

When China Mobile overtook Vodafone as the biggest mobile phone company in the world last week we started thinking about which companies had the biggest websites. There are a variety of mobile & cell phone sites on the web from handset manufacturers, networks and retailers to news, reviews and forum sites and its often hard to pick out which have the most influence and the largest user base.

In this study we have picked the top 50 websites in terms of visibility for key phrases on various search engines and conducted some research into their traffic figures. If your favourite site is not listed please let us know and the table will be updated. Traffic analysis was conducted using the Alexa rankings. Alexa data is not 100% accurate but for websites with a rank of less than 100,000 it is generally regarded as a very good indication of relative traffic.

The data is very interesting especially for the retailers who no doubt have spotted the rankings of their competitors and are either very pleased or disappointed with how they are placed. China Mobile seems to have cemented its number 1 position ahead of all the usual major players. Orange.co.uk has seen a large traffic jump recently after it merged with Wanadoo and started offering broadband services in the UK.

Phonescoop leads the news sites in 10th place but it’s a surprise to see vodafone.com down in 24th spot – the regional variations are clearly getting most of their traffic.

The traffic ranking figures in the table relate to the position that the site holds in relation to all other sites on the web. You can see the top 500 sites as a guide, Yahoo, MSN and Google are the top 3.

Update: thanks for pointing out a few extra sites. The list now has 69 entries………

Position Website Traffic Ranking
1. www.chinamobile.com 205
2. www.cingular.com 576
3. www.nokia.com 593
4. www.orange.co.uk 653
5. www.verizonwireless.com 684
6. www.sonyericsson.com 702
7. direct.motorola.com 948
8. www.gsmarena.com 1399
9. www.o2.co.uk 2444
10. www.mobile-review.com 2834
11. www.samsungmobile.com 2864
12. www.phonescoop.com 3156
13. www.carphonewarehouse.com 3299
14. www.vodafone.co.uk 3730
15. www.bell.ca 4187
16. www.nokiausa.com 4770
17. www.rogers.com 5037
18. www.t-mobile.co.uk 5141
19. www.mobiledia.com 6319
20. www.allaboutsymbian.com 6435
21. www.nokia.co.uk 6491
22. www.mobileburn.com 9427
23. www.engadgetmobile.com 9525
24. www.infosyncworld.com 10285
25. www.fido.ca 10624
26. www.e2save.com 11947
27. www.mobilewhack.com 12163
28. www.telusmobility.com 13000
29. www.phonearena.com 15325
30. www.three.co.uk 15631
31. www.3g.co.uk 17706
32. www.vodafone.com 18469
33. www.mobileshop.com 20575
34. www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk 21861
35. www.dialaphone.co.uk 22522
36. www.onestopphoneshop.co.uk 22723
37. www.phones4u.co.uk 24198
38. www.slashphone.com 24966
39. www.clubsonyericsson.com 25835
40. www.mobiletracker.net 27650
41. www.thelink.com 29392
42. www.phoneyworld.com 31806
43. www.mobiles.co.uk 33364
44. www.celularis.com 34266
45. www.textually.org 35086
46. www.mobilegazette.com 40587
47. www.cellular-news.com 45537
48. www.coolsmartphone.com 46105
49. www.thephonespot.com 47294
50. www.cellphones.ca 54210
51. www.mphone.co.uk 56958
52. www.onecompare.com 71524
53. www.mobilerainbow.co.uk 81620
54. www.imobile.com.au 85356
55. www.ukphoneshop.com 93683
56. www.winksite.com 118129
57. www.msmobilenews.com 123215
58. www.younevercall.com 140269
59. www.mobhappy.com 157518
60. www.zyb.com 160180
61. www.mobilementalism.com 164271
62. www.mobiles.org.uk 165541
63. www.mad4mobilephones.com 205503
64. www.endofwires.com 226982
65. www.comparecellular.com 250190
66. www.mobile-addict.com 309629
67. www.66mobile.com 329587
68. www.3mobileshop.co.uk 380286
69. www.mobile-phone-directory.org 424921

{ 31 comments… read them below or add one }

Dave Sharp August 28, 2006 at 8:44 pm

Maybe do the top 100 next time. :)

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Jon Graham August 31, 2006 at 11:59 pm

The graph looks great. Interesting to see how much Orange has caught up recently.

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Emily Turrettini September 1, 2006 at 8:04 am

A submission for your review of top mobile phone sites. Textually.org is the entry point of three weblogs devoted to cell phones and mobile content, focusing on text messaging. Ranks 1,214 in Technorati.

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mad4mobilephones September 1, 2006 at 8:05 am

Thanks Emily, we have updated the list.

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Jason September 1, 2006 at 1:39 pm

What about mobile9.com? They rank roughly 1000 in alexa.

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mad4mobilephones September 1, 2006 at 1:41 pm

Hi Jason, we have not included any ringtone/downloads sites in the rankings this time. However if we do the list again I will try to include them.

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Sam September 3, 2006 at 2:30 pm

You should recheck the ranks. Chinamobile has now 200 and cingular 606.

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Salman September 19, 2006 at 10:27 pm

Wow, great to see some .ca’s in that list!

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Matt Keegan November 16, 2006 at 5:39 pm

Kewl! I just happen to be in the market for a new cell phone and I will visit several sites that made this list. I like the Nokia N73. If I don’t go with a Razr, then the N73 will probably be the winner.

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David January 11, 2007 at 12:26 pm

Great list of mobile phone websites.

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Raj February 3, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Great list. Some of the sites are surprise entries. I only wish you could update this regularly, maybe, once every 3 months.

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Azeem Khan February 17, 2007 at 8:41 am

Great! The page is very informative and It has many useful links in mobile industry. Good work keep it up.

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Planetx March 25, 2007 at 7:32 pm

The information is good. keep the good work.

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Matt Keegan May 13, 2007 at 4:58 pm

I am getting my new phone by the summer and the RAZR looks to be what I will choose. With Bluetooth, of course!

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Mike Mobile May 25, 2007 at 12:28 am

Great Idea – Something our site can aspire to lol

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ThePhoneNetwork June 21, 2007 at 4:27 pm

Thats for this is good to see who else is in business

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Anirudh July 21, 2007 at 9:19 am

Good work! It has many useful links in mobile industry. I am working hard to see my website on this page..

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iphone August 1, 2007 at 8:58 pm

Great! The page is very informative and It has many useful links in mobile industry. Good work keep it up.

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Latest Mobile Phones August 24, 2007 at 10:29 am

here i found a lot of information. Keep it up

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Sim Free Mobile Phones August 30, 2007 at 10:23 am

Wow now the buyers will have plenty of options to choose from to get a mobile phone……..hurray.

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Sagem Phones March 5, 2008 at 3:35 pm

I thought Gsmarena was the biggest, but nice list

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Mobile Phones March 8, 2008 at 10:15 am

I want information about iPhone making waves in the market and latest model launch by Nokia for the same.\r\n\r\nYou have a nice collection .

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Tom April 13, 2008 at 6:01 pm

Interesting and useful post thanks.

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Latest Mobile Phone May 15, 2008 at 9:55 am

I didn’t see one of my favourites, Mobile88 in the list. Mobile88 provides informative news and reviews before buying a new phone.

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homa July 27, 2008 at 11:54 pm

I want a cellphone.
something like n95,but cheaper!!:-D
would u help me???!!!

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Richard Smith September 12, 2008 at 7:26 am

This list is great. All the site included in this list are nice and best. But i think some good sites should be in this list like :http://www.mobiles.co.uk/ , http://www.mobilephonesuk.org.uk/

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Ewan MacLeod September 16, 2008 at 2:05 am

Don’t forget us at Mobile Industry Review (incorporating SMS Text News) at http://www.smstextnews.com. We’re about 90k in Alexa!

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NZ Mobiles December 23, 2008 at 5:22 pm

I’d also ask why GSM phones aren’t there.

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Pink Mobile Phones March 26, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Excellent list to find phone sites

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Compare Mobile Phones April 21, 2009 at 8:58 am

Great article

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Sheridan June 24, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Thanks for the info ! :)

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