Nexus One Sales Lagging, Says Analytics Firm
Nexus One Sales Lagging, Says Analytics Firm
Posted 01/13/2010 at 7:00pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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The Nexus One has been available for just over a week. Now, analytics firm Flurry has managed to estimate the number of handsets sold in week one is around 20,000. For comparison, the Droid sold about 250,000 in its first week. The iPhone sold a whopping 1.6 million. Even the T-Mobile Myouch 3G sold 60,000 units. So, what does this mean for the Superphone?
When looking at these numbers, one must consider the huge difference in the marketing and distribution. Verizon has spent millions advertising the Droid, and Apple always manages to make a spectacle of iPhone launches, and the humble MyTouch had marketing from T-Mobile to help it out. The Nexus One can only be purchased online, and there’s no real advertising. Even the launch event seemed subdued and procedural.
A spring Verizon launch may kick sales into overdrive, we’ll have to wait and see. For now, it could be Google is just fine with only selling a limited number of phones to early adopters. Considering the complaints about customer service, that might also be for the best.
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nsk chaos
January 14, 2010 at 6:24pm
meh im not minding. hopefully this will lower the price [of the nexus one] when i go buy one! ^.^
Chocolate
January 13, 2010 at 10:28pm
It was introduced with T-Mobile, the smallest of the big 4 carriers in the US. What do you expect. Once it gets on Verizon it will do much MUCH better. Everyone that would want an iphone on verizon will get the Nexus one as the alternative. I am on sprint and I know that as soon as I hear that it works on sprint, I too will be getting one.
AntiHero
January 13, 2010 at 10:54pm
And another reason on top of that is that they only made them available in the US. Anyone who doesn't have an Android (and wants one) and wasn't waiting for the Nexus or "Something Better" after each release already has their phone, and a good deal of em are bound in contracts with their phones.
karlbr
January 13, 2010 at 8:10pm
with the 3G signal reception problems, is anyone surprised people aren't snapping them up? I, for one, am tired of unfinished products hitting the market.
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