Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
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Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#2Reading this, it appears that they sold more Windows Mobile (6.x) devices than Windows Phone 7 devices.
3.6M total sold in Q1, 1.6M of which was WP7.
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#3So, does that mean more Android phones are sold in just 5 days? (Edited grammar.)
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#4So, does that mean more Android phones are sold in just 5 days? (Edited grammar.)
> so android phones sell more in just 5 days?
No, Android devices activate more in 5 days. Still not clear to me what "activation" means. These two measures aren't directly comparable: http://www.simplemobilereview.com/what-does-apple-mean-by-de...
That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#5The sales of WP7 phones seem to be declining.
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#6So, does that mean more Android phones are sold in just 5 days? (Edited grammar.)
> so android phones sell more in just 5 days? No, Android devices activate more in 5 days. Still not clear to me what "activation" means. These two measures aren't directly comparable: http://www.simplemobilereview.com/what-does-apple-mean-by-de... That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.
That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.
I'm unclear how they're related? Windows Mobile is targeted at the enterprise while WP7 isn't. The relative performance doesn't really say much.
WP7's numbers vs Android/iOS are telling of their mobile strategy, but not their numbers vs WM6.x.
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#7So, does that mean more Android phones are sold in just 5 days? (Edited grammar.)
> so android phones sell more in just 5 days? No, Android devices activate more in 5 days. Still not clear to me what "activation" means. These two measures aren't directly comparable: http://www.simplemobilereview.com/what-does-apple-mean-by-de... That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.
I think that means real device sales numbers may even be higher.
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#8The sales of WP7 phones seem to be declining.
You usually need at least two data points to show a decline. AFAIK these are the first numbers we've seen of actual sales to consumers.
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#9Today I asked a salesman in a big high street phone store in the UK if they were selling many Windows Phone 7 phones:
"We sell a few a day," he said. "People don't come in and ask to buy one like they do with the iPhone, of course, but a handful of folks walk out with one anyway."
I asked him why he thought they went for a WP7 phone instead of an Android or iOS device:
"Honestly, a lot of them are just looking for a phone to make phone calls; they don't seem to care about the operating system. I guess you could say that they buy them by accident."
Re: Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1
#10It says "to end users." Do they mean actual buyers in the store forking over cash? It looks to me like Gartner may be estimating this number given their comments about estimating retail inventory a few paragraphs down.
I'd really like to read the original, I am not sure how solid this number is.