Whatever the actual sales numbers are, they're clearly much better than Nokia projected. That despite, as I understand it, little promotion in Europe or Asia and none whatsoever in the US or the rest of North or South America.

Apparently so strong the N900 has kinda changed their strategy. Maemo/MeeGo is no longer a little-known side project for a small group of linux fans within Nokia and Intel. No longer Step 4 of 5 of a series of niche devices.

The N900 apparently convinced both Nokia and Intel there's a real market for MeeGo and to throw some serious resources into it as their future OS for pocket computing. If N900 sales numbers and most feedback were anything less than very good we never would've heard a thing about MeeGo. MeeGo is partly a result of the N900's success.

As far as actual numbers I'd wager the N900 has sold at least as well, worldwide, as the Nexus One. That's amazing!