Samsung is one of the companies with the most touchscreen devices on the market right now and it seems that the handset maker managed to reach the performance of selling 50 million units of these recently. The milestone was reached this month, with 10 million units being sold in 2008 and 40 million this year. If we look into percentages, Samsung’s...
Motorola Inc. seems to be recovering from its last years of trouble thanks to the freshly-launched Droid handset, that sold 100,000 units on its first weekend. Verizon Wireless was the carrier handling the sales of the device and last we heard, there 200,000 Droid phones ready for the market. It’s also important to note that Motorola will probably...
Samsung S5320 managed to sell over 5 million units since its May release, proving once again that affordable touchscreen phones are all the rage now. Also, we’re learned that Samsung claims that the number might reach 10 million by November. Meanwhile, competition performed pretty well, too, LG Cookie also reaching the 5 million performance in...
Gartner’s just published the results for Q2′s mobile phone sales, so we found out that the global sales went down 6%, while the smartphone sales grew 27%. 286.1 million units were sold in Q2, 6.1% less than in the same quarter of 2008, while smartphone sales went past 40 million units. Mid-range QWERTY and touchscreen smartphones sold like...
iSuppli Corp recently stated that pico projectors have what it takes to become important mobile phone accessories in the next years, reaching a sixtyfold growth in shipments till 2013. Turns out that over 3 million such units will be sold 4 years from now, up from 50,000 units this year. Pico projectors are defined as being the front projectors that...
In case you’ve been holding back from getting a Palm Pre handset till now, there’s a brand new way of doing so, since the device is available via Sprint’s website. The price is $199.99 with a $100 mail in rebate fee and we remind you that Pre sold over 300,000 units in its first few weeks on the US market. Palm’s latest phone...
Palm Pre was a success after all, since it managed to sell over 300,000 units in June, according to Charter Equity Research analyst Ed Snyder. Considering that 120,000 units were available at the start, this number show a pretty neat performance. Right now, Palm is able to manufacture around 15,000 units per day, in order to meet demand. We’ve...
We were stunned to find out that iPhone 3GS sold 1 million units over the weekend, but it’s even more stunning to learn that Samsung Jet S8000 has received more than 2 million pre-orders. Unveiled last week, this “smarter than a smartphone” device promises to be the company’s most successful handset in 2009, in spite of the...
iPhone 3GS turned out to be an incredible hit in the first weekend after its launch, selling more units than its predecessor, the iPhone 3G. Experts expect to see 50% more iPhone 3GS units sold in comparison the 2008 version of the iPhone. In the UK, there were 10 times more customers in local shops selling the new iPhone in the last days, when compared...
The analysts from Credit Suisse have a neat prediction for us all: Sprint may sell Palm Pre for $150 with a (pretty pricey) contract, trying to compete with the $199 iPhone. Sprint claims right now that Palm Pre will be “competitively priced”, whatever that may mean, but we know that the iPhone is the handset to beat. The carrier could...
