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Nokia the most nicked phones

Fri, 04 Aug 2006

NOKIA mobile phones are the most-frequently stolen handsets, figures revealed yesterday.

They made up half of all thefts, with seven models featured in the top 10.

A research team from the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Loughborough University has compiled data from 112,093 crimes in London in 2005 that involved mobile phone theft.

The Nokia 6230 was the most-stolen phone, Samsung D500 second and Samsung D500 third.

Sony Ericsson’s K750i and W800i moved into the top 10 in December.

The statistics are believed to be the first attempt to draw up a mobile theft index similar to lists for cars and bikes .

Jen Mailley, Shaun Whitehead, and Graham Farrell, the authors of the report that was published in Justice of the Peace magazine, are quick to caution that the chart table did not take into account volume sales figures, which would provide more depth to the numbers.

"It could simply be that the Nokia 6230 was the most commonly sold phone rather than it is more likely to be attractive for thieves or owned by robbery victims", the authors said.
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