The current era is distinguished by technological advancement in relative fields. When talking about gadgets and tools, we cannot forget about wholesale business of mobile phones, as these are the devices, which remained the most popular and talked about consumer product during the year 2011. Ever since the mobile phones became affordable, the manufacturing companies got on their toes to grab hold of the market. This race led the mobiles into a new generation, which stunned many and left the rest all occupied with their features and utilities.

The popular mobile phone manufacturers of 2011 remained Nokia, Apple, HTC Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson. In 2010, the mobile phones started their new journey towards technological advancement. Nokia improved its symbian operating system mobiles and introduced new levels of symbian OS while Apple nailed it all with launch of its popular iPhone series. LG, Samsung, Sony Ericson, and Motorola also launched some very pretty and much loaded smartphones. The similar trend continued during the year 2011. During 2011, grabbed much attention; its smartphones offered features and applications similar to iPhone and presented the youth with an affordable choice in the interesting and rather cheap world of android. Apple and Nokia, however remained the top mobile phone manufacturing companies of 2011

Let’s have a look at the popular handsets of the year launched by Nokia and Apple.

Nokia N9 was launched in August 2011 and is based on MeeGo operating system. As announced by the company, N9 is now available in white colour. Some of its specs include 1 GB memory, 8 MP camera, 854 x 480 px display with over 16 million colours and smart input and output features. Nokia Lumina 800 aka Sea Ray, which was launched in Oct 2011, has grabbed much attention. It is the first mobile by Nokia that runs on Windows Phone OS. With memory of 16 GB, Lumina is all set to surprise the avid smartphone users. It won the “Editor’s Choice” award of 2011. It is believed that Lumina has the power and strength to snatch the market away from other mobile manufacturing companies.

For the iPhone, iPad and iPod fans, the year 2011 is marked with rumours and speculations about Apple’s upcoming products and not to mention death of Steve Jobs. Just when everyone was sure of seeing iPhone 5, Apple launched 4S. With faster and more powerful processor, more detailed camera, Siri, iCloud and iOS 5 operating system, iPhone 4s has it all needed for the Apple’s fifth generation phone. With all other wholesale businesses launching new phones every month, Apple takes its time and does the bang at the end. The company enjoys enough privilege that people hold on for iPhone while deciding to change their handset.