Full Feed300,000 Pres sold in June, predicts an analyst
Whenever a hyped phone debuts in its first month, it is always interesting to see how well it does, compared to other hyped phones. As you can imagine, every number released by Palm and analysts would be compared to Apple. According to Ed Snyder, of Charter Equity Research, 300,000 Pres have been sold by Sprint and Palm in its inaugural month of June.
300,000 represents hope for a struggling Palm company and certainly is a nice number for Sprint. Consider this, Palm only shipped 351,000 phones in the quarter before the Pre launch. Already in the first month of the Pre launch 300,000 units were shipped, and let’s not forget the 70,000 in May. In addition, Snyder estimates that 15,000 Pre units are manufactured everyday just to keep up with the strong demand. Moreover, if this continues pace, 1 million units could be shipped within the first quarter of launch, a mighty feat.
Take these numbers with a grain of salt because no official records have been released by Palm yet. My bet is they are waiting for a truly startling number to occur before they release any information. The Palm Pre looks to be doing pretty well, especially with the amount of downloads the App Catalog has seen. Hopefully, Palm and Sprint can keep up with consumer demand.
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Very impressive for a brand new OS from a company that was literally on its last leg.
No one has mentioned the fact that there haven’t been any major issues with the device either.
Kudos to Palm & Sprint for a successful launch.
on July 1, 2009 at 09:18 AM - LINK