The first phone to run Samsung’s own bada operating system, the Samsung Wave S8500, has globally sold 1 million units. Justin Hong, project lead and architect of bada, announced this on his twitter feed.
It took under one month for the Samsung Wave to achieve this, pretty impressive if you ask me. Didn’t expect the Wave to sell this good.
Check Justin Hong’s twitter post here (google translated version).
Apple just announced that they have sold over 1.7 million iPhone 4s in just three days. Just do the math, and figure that Apple have been selling over 500 thousand units a day.
If I remember correctly, the first generation iPhone sold 600,000 units in one month, and for instance the Droid sold 525 thousand units in the same time frame. 500k units a day would mean 15 million units in one month! And the pace can actually keep up, when the additional 18 countries will begin to sell the iPhone 4 by the end of this month.
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Apple today gave an official statement on how many iPhone 4′s were sold during the first day of pre-orders. The same time they also apologized for the problems that were caused by this massive demand.
“Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions,” the company said.
“Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration. We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock.”
Pretty amazing don’t you think?
Apple today announced that they have sold 2 million iPads in just 59 days. Recent milestones are 300k units during day one, and 1 million units in 28 days. Amazing that they have continued with the same pace throughout the whole time it’s been available.
“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.
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Gartner today said that they estimate Nokia to have sold below 100,000 units of the Nokia N900 since its launch five months ago. Nokia’s previous top selling phone has been the N95, that was released in 2006.
Nokia sold below 50,000 N900s in January-March, while the iPhone has sold 8.75 million units during the same time.
A take from Reuters article:
The sales of less than 100,000 N900s compares with sales of 8.75 million iPhones in January-March alone.
The N900, which went on sale last November, is Nokia’s first phone running the Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to regain ground in the coming years.
In February this year Nokia unveiled a plan to merge Maemo with Intel’s Moblin operating system.
Nokia sold 50,000 N900s in the last quarter of 2009, and quarterly sales fell in January-March, Gartner statistics showed. Gartner does not track phone sales per model, but as the N900 is the only phone using Maemo, the statistics for operating systems show sales for the model.
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Aalto University has conducted a study of what mobile phones Finns use. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Nokia is a clear winner, with a share of 88.7%. The most popular phone is the Nokia 2760, with a share of 4.7%. The newer Nokia 3120 Classic comes in at second with a share of 4.1%. The first smartphone, Nokia E51, is at 10th place with a share of 2.0%.
These stats are based on actual usage numbers, that Aalto University gathered from mobile network operators in Finland. Apple’s iPhone is missing from this list, since Sonera didn’t want to go public with their iPhone sales.
Source: Puhelinvertailu(Finnish)
Apple announced today that they have sold over 1 million iPads since its release on April 3, 2010. The 1 millionth iPad was sold on Friday, just 28 days after its release. It took 74 days for the iPhone to sell 1 million units. Keep in mind that the iPad is currently only selling in the US.
“One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”
Press Release after the break.
A study that was conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals some crazy fact about teens cellphone usage. One in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day, which equals over 3,000 texts a month. The most active users are 14-17 year-old girls.
Here is a summary of the study:
- Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.
- 15% of teens who are texters send more than 200 texts a day, or more than 6,000 texts a month.
- Boys typically send and receive 30 texts a day; girls typically send and receive 80 messages per day.
- Teen texters ages 12-13 typically send and receive 20 texts a day.
- 14-17 year-old texters typically send and receive 60 text messages a day.
- Older girls who text are the most active, with 14-17 year-old girls typically sending 100 or more mes- sages a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.
- However, while many teens are avid texters, a substantial minority are not. One-fifth of teen texters (22%) send and receive just 1-10 texts a day, or 30-300 a month.
Read the full report in PDF here.
A report from Flurry shows that the Google Nexus One sold only 80,000 units in its first month. We earlier reported that they sold 20,000 during the first week, so exactly one fourth of the whole months sales. Nexus One’s sales are quite bad if you compare them to the first months sales of the iPhone or the Droid. The Motorola Droid sold 525,000, and the first generation iPhone sold 600,000 during their first month.
One of the reasons for this, could be that the Nexus One isn’t carrier bound, and only sold by Google. Also, Google didn’t advertise the phone much. If you think back in time on the announcement/release of the first iPhone, you can maybe remember the crazy Apple hype that went on. It was almost like everyone was crazy about this phone. Same thing was done with the Motorola Droid. Crazy Ad campaigns and hype around the launch.
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In the summer 2008 when the iPhone was released in Japan, there were numerous talks that it will flop and that it is not suitable for the Japanese market. Softbank’s CEO has another opinion about this, and he confirmed that the iPhone is selling massive amounts in Japan. Here is a take from the Wall Street Journal:
For Softbank’s chairman and chief executive, the company’s role as the only official supplier of the iPhone in Japan gives it a strong attraction in a consumer market characterized by a fascination for gadgetry. ”When we launched the iPhone [in the summer of 2008], some people said those phones were not suited for Japanese cellphone users,” said Masayoshi Son at a news conference. Most Japanese cellphones are smaller and lighter than the Apple device. ”But those [skeptics] have been proven completely wrong … The iPhone is selling so well that we are really feeling the boost from it,” Mr. Son said. He declined to say how many iPhones Softbank had sold, but described the handset as “the biggest contributor to third-quarter handset sales,” and “a major contributor to growth in data communication revenue.”
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