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Microsoft has sold 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices

article published on 21 December, 2010

Microsoft corporate VP Achim Berg has said today that the company has sold 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices in just six weeks, higher than most expectations. Says Berg: "We are pleased that phone manufacturers sold over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks, which helps build customer momentum and retail presence." It is important to note that those figures seem to imply that ... [ read the full article ]

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21. December 2010 @ 23:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"It is important to note that those figures seem to imply that the 1.5 million figure is how many handsets have been sold to carriers and distributors, not how many have been sold to retail end-users.

Regardless, most analysts had sales at 200,000 so the new number is shocking."

...So they actually only sold 200,000 phones (about 13% of what they shipped) and analysts consider that shocking...I guess the analysts must have actually tried the phones.

I have to say I am shocked too...I figured about twice the sales of the Kin...or about 1000 units nation-wide.


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28. December 2010 @ 07:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by KillerBug:
"It is important to note that those figures seem to imply that the 1.5 million figure is how many handsets have been sold to carriers and distributors, not how many have been sold to retail end-users.

Regardless, most analysts had sales at 200,000 so the new number is shocking."

...So they actually only sold 200,000 phones (about 13% of what they shipped) and analysts consider that shocking...I guess the analysts must have actually tried the phones.

I have to say I am shocked too...I figured about twice the sales of the Kin...or about 1000 units nation-wide.
So you're saying they only sold 200,000 units because that's what the analysts said they would sell?
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