Thread: Can someone tell me why N900 and not Android?
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cb474 is offline cb474
2009-11-02 , 11:40
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Originally Posted by c0rt3x View Post
Are you kidding? Unless you're talking about America alone, I can't really agree with that. The N900 has a similar amount of pre-orders as the original N95 had, and let me remind you of that all the different N95 versions outsold the Iphone 2G and 3G combined!

The N900 alone will undoubtly outsell all Motorola's Android devices (Cliq and Droid) combined, but not necessarily all Android devices. Remember, Motorola won't most likely even sell their phones outside USA, because their previous failures. The fact that the original version of Droid lacks a SIM card slot doesn't make it better either.
Where are you getting your numbers? I can't confirm this. What I see is that the N95 sold 15 millions units. For example, that's the number cited on Nokia's Conversations web site, see: http://conversations.nokia.com/2009/...agship-device/

Whereas the iPhone sold 17 million units by March of this year (http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...7-million.html) and then in the last quarter alone sold another 7.4 million (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/19...n-ever-before/). That adds up to 24.4 million iPhones. And that leaves out the quarter from April to June, so the number is probably closer to 30 million (i.e. twice as much as the N95).

Also the industry analyst predictions show Android phone sales just eclipsing Maemo and the iPhone, in the next three years (http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/ar...ars/1256668455). Admittedly, that will not be based on the Droid alone, but that's not Google's strategy so it's not really a relevant comparison. And Symbian is predicted to hold onto the most market share, but it's market share will be dropping rapidly, while the iPhone will be plateauing and Android will be growing over 1000%.