Windows Phone 7 devices went on sale this week at AT&T ( NYSE: T ) and T-Mobile with AT&T selling the Samsung Focus and HTC Surround for $200 each with a two-year contract, and T-Mobile is selling the HTC HD7 for $200 with a two-year contract.
It's not exactly clear how well sales are going. T-Mobile isn't commenting and an AT&T spokeswoman said the phone was "already receiving strong interest from our customers right out of the gate," according to an article in TheStreet is citing a market research source who tracks phone sales as saying some 40,000 Windows Phone 7 phones were sold on Monday when the platform launched. Consider, also, that Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) has pumped $100 million into advertising the new platform.
Still, the critical Christmas-selling season is coming up, and carriers and manufacturers typically slash prices to drive sales.
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I find it hard to believe that Google's Android is selling 73 MILLION phones per year and the iPhone is selling 98.5 MILLION phone per year (based on your stated daily sales stat). Article authors should please do basic math and check facts before posting a news article. Copying other article's 'stats' will never make it credible. (At least if you're going to make a claim make it believable)
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In efforts to flog off what probably turned out to be the wrong products to stock, Amazon has slashed the prices of two of its Windows Phone 7 smartphones, |
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TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Japanese unit of US firm Microsoft Corp. will offer limited-time discounts of about 30% for editions of the Windows 7 operating system |
Still, the critical Christmas-selling season is coming up, and carriers and manufacturers typically slash prices to drive sales.
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[ID:nLDE67301J] AT&T, the second largest US network, slashed that price to $99.99 on Nov. 7. "It's a promotion for the holiday season," AT&T spokeswoman
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The HD7 is very obviously related to the HTC HD2, which remains on sale with T-Mobile at half the price of the Windows Phone 7 handset, with a 4.3-inch WVGA
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