News · 19 May 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
Ready for non-scientific sales numbers? According to Gartner’s latest mobile sales report, only 1.6 Million Windows Phone 7 devices have been sold in Q1 2011 out of the 3.6 Million Windows Phone handsets sold in the same period. This essentially means that 2 Million Windows Mobile 6.X were have already been sold this year even though this OS is “dead”. Not a good sign right? I’ve heard a few days ago from a carrier here that WP7 sales were alarming so this new report isn’t surprising me at all. The windows Phone marketshare went from 6.8% in Q1 2010 to 3.6% today.
There’s barely any marketing push right now and Microsoft seems to only rely on buzz generate by blogs and the hope that future Nokia devices will help boost the platform adoption rate…Not a good strategy…
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