Google Zeitgeist 2010: HTC Desire fastest rising mobile phone search in Malaysia

Every year Google Zeitgeist provides an interesting overview of signs of the times through what people search online based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google. You can see the full report here.

Google Zeitgeist also provides a look at local searches, terms that’s most searched based on country, so we zoomed into Malaysia and found this rather interesting statistic — Fastest Rising Mobile Phones.

Head on to after the jump to see what mobile phone was the fastest rising search keyword for 2010 in Malaysia. The result may surprise you. We were surprised when we saw it.

Fastest Rising Mobile Phones

1. htc desire
2. htc legend
3. iphone 4
4. motorola milestone
5. n8
6. nokia 7230
7. nokia c3
8. nokia c5
9. nokia c6
10. nokia e5

Yeap as you can see, it wasn’t the iPhone that rose to the top but rather the HTC Desire and HTC Legend.

Curiously, Malaysian bucks the global trend for consumer electronics with two of the hottest Apple iDevice taking the top two spots.

Fastest Rising in Consumer Electronics

1. ipad
2. iphone 4
3. nokia 5530
4. htc evo 4g
5. nokia n900
6. blackberry apps
7. duracell mygrid
8. 트위터
9. otterbox
10. pdanet

So what do you know, turns out there’s more HTC fans in Malaysia.

What do you think?

Oh and just for fun we’ve included this 2010 year in review video from Google because we really like it. Enjoy.

[google zeitgeist]