Microsoft partners sold 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices last quarter

By on Jan 26, 2011 at 7:39 PM
mobile January 26, 2011

Microsoft confirmed to Bloomberg that its partners sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices to carriers and retail partners last quarter. The company also claimed that according to its findings, 93% of Windows Phone 7 customers are satisfied with the operating system and brand awareness has increased by half to 66%. “Sales are an important measure, but for a new platform we think customer satisfaction and active developer support are more important indicators of how sales will be over the long term,” senior product manager Greg Sullivan said in an interview. Sullivan stated that there are 24,000 developers signed up to build apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform, and 6,500 apps are currently available in Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace.

Read

Tags:
, , , , , , , , , ,
28 Comments

Related Articles

  • http://twitter.com/zizo79 zack nebbaki

    first…

  • Anonymous

    Just waiting on Verizon to get a device. WP7 ftw.

    • http://www.henryhelmes.com Henry

      I hope the Verizon WP7 device is 4G LTE!

  • Anonymous

    This is an impressive total even if it is licenses sold and not actual units in peoples hands.

    But Microsoft SHOUL be able to beat CrApple hands down when it comes to writing OS’s and building User Interfaces.

    Let’s hope that WP7 continutes to beat the evil empire into the ground because this is a VERy good start.

    • Johnathan

      what’s impressive? They didn’t sale 2 million phones to costumers I’d bet they didn’t sale 1 million to costumers. Pathetic is more like it

    • Guestone

      1,900,000 phones in the stock room is why you don’t see Win7 phones in the real world and does not equate to real sales to real people!
      Microsoft is soooooo 80′s! Why don’t you open your eyes to now. There is no way MS beats Apple at anything that matters.
      Microsoft IS THE EVIL EMPIRE and they’ve ALREADY been beaten to the ground…..

      • Anonymous

        Yeah I can see how 90% market share of the GLOBAL PC MARKET is being beaten to the ground…

    • Anonymous

      M$ should be able to beat CrApple when it comes to writing OS’s and building user interfaces???!!!! Dude lay off the crack pipe Microcrap hasn’t done squat for nearly a decade. If it wasn’t for Microcrap living off of past Microsoft Office glories Mircocrap would have tanked long ago. As it is Microcrap is fast turning into a modern day IBM and becoming another lame dinosaur. Heck they even managed to screw up with Windows (remember Millennium and Vista) and that’s supposed to be their strong suit.

    • Michale11111

      Two things … Learn to speak in the first person and put down the crack pipe.

      MS will never beat Apple or Android when it comes to user interfaces and mobile OS’s. Not a prayer. They are so far behind they can’t even see the smoke coming out Apple and Google’s tailpipes. Maybe if they fired Balmer …

      • Anonymous

        You do realize that CEOs do not decide end product design..right? Unless you’re a micromanaging psycho like Jobs. Take a few business courses

  • Michale11111

    They sold them to partners/carriers, not to people actually using them. And the numbers they claim for satisfaction? You can’t possibly believe them. without knowing an awful lot about their “satisfaction survey” like sample sizes, questions asked, answers to choose from, etc., which they wouldn’t reveal in a million years their claims mean nothing, zip, zilch, nada.

    MS has lost this one and they will never ever come close to Android or IOS unless they let those systems run on their devices.

  • Anonymous

    Now all they need is a phone with a FF cam and i might give it a test run.

  • achilles

    Those numbers are only high due to politics. There are vast numbers of unsold units in stores. To prove my point, look at how many of your friends bought this device.

    • Donny

      Yeah or the market is over saturated due to the buy one get 20 free android deals over the last year….

      • Anonymous

        You’re out of your element, Donny.

        The BOGO on Android phones made good business sense, and if Microsoft was smart they’d be doing something similar with carriers. WP7 simply came out too late to do any damage – Microsoft can’t blame anyone but themselves on this one.

      • Scott

        I had to +1 you for saying “You’re out of your element, Donny”. I love The Big Lebowski

    • PS

      My friends are not representative of the smartphone user population as a whole. Many of them don’t even own a smartphone. Your point is flawed, big time!!!

  • Anonymous

    WP7 OS is good stuff.
    Try it out for a week and return the phone if you don’t like it.
    A lot wouldn’t take it back after trying it.

    • dance

      Agreed. I am a very satisfied WP7 user. I have the Samsung Focus. It’s very fast, faster than most Android phones I have used. It might not have as many apps on the market yet, but it’s such a refleshing and fast OS. Design and display of my phone are both brilliant too!

  • http://twitter.com/RodT3 RodT3

    I enjoy my device i am still using my android a little but i dumped my iphone 3gs. The WP7 Keyboard settled that device like the apps on IOS but my favorite apps were on android (Captivate) but the keyboard is for morons I never could adapt to the 3GS Keyboard. The WP7 Keyboard is stellar. I would like to see the swipe go to it. So in a lot fo ways I really Like my android for the apps and a few things like Google integration but for my workhorse the WP7 is great and from a 1.0 OS it beats the pants off a lot of things and cant wait for the patches and this really gets me excited for Mobile 8

  • http://mindmirror007.blogspot.com/p/home.html Sathya

    Microsoft sold 2 million “licenses” and not sure about how many handsets their partners have sold!! Well at least according to Engadget!

  • Anonymous

    I have yet to sell a WP7 device and have a customer return unhappy with the product. I’ve had a couple come back to exchange, but for a different WP7. I think it’s off to a solid start.

  • CJ

    Hmmmmm. That’s not what MS said. They reported that they sold 2 million licenses. There’s no way in hell 2 million WP7 phones have been unleashed onto the public. I live in NY and travel to Silicon Valley twice a month and I’ve seen 10 at most since it’s release.

  • Craig

    These are not consumer sales. This is the number of licenses Microsoft sold to carriers. We still have no idea how many have been activated.

  • http://twitter.com/ggore Glenn Gore

    They sold 2 million LICENSES TO OEMS, not 2 million phones to dealers, or 2 million phones to end users. BIG difference.

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone even cares for WP7?

  • lolcat

    What’s with all the hating? I have no doubt that MS is going to push the mobile phone market forward, not everyone wants to go onto XDA to make their Android phone good. As engadget so eloqently put in their nexus S review (aka vanilla android):

    “We don’t question the power of the OS, but the fit, finish, and ease of use simply is still not there. There is something disconcerting about an operating system that changes its rules from app to app — for a mobile interface to work well, it has to be approached holistically and organically. There is something cohesive in OSs like webOS and iOS — a language that you can easily learn to speak and feel confident about using to get what you want — that just seems to be missing here.”

  • Shadrach

    MS is usually pretty forthcoming with their numbers. If sales of WP7 were really all that great, they wouldn’t be balking as badly as they are at reporting the sell-through data.

blog comments powered by Disqus