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Seattle版 - Windows Phone 7 U.K. Sales Dwarfed by Android, Symbian: Rep
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is lagging behind Google Android and Symbian in
early U.K. sales, according to a new report.
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Microsoft may have some trouble selling its new Windows Phone 7 smartphones,
if a new British report is any indication.
In a report quickly disseminated across the Web by blogs such as
Electronista, U.K. retailer MobilesPlease reported that Windows Phone 7
devices were being outsold by their Google Android and Symbian counterparts.
While lone sales reports are questionable indicators of broader trends,
this bit of news from the U.K. dovetails with earlier rumors that first-day
Windows Phone 7 sales in the United States were somewhat lackluster.
"Windows Phone 7 has got off to a sluggish start as far as our customers are
concerned," reads a Nov. 29 posting on MobilesPlease's corporate blog, "
accounting for just 3 [percent] of smartphone sales and a little under 2 [
percent] of overall sales through MobilesPlease.co.uk and our network of
partner sites that share our data feed."
Symbian 3 devices apparently outsold their Windows Phone 7 competition by a
factor of 3-to-1. "I wanted to make sure that our figures weren't anomalous,
so I went to a few local high street mobile phone retailers," the posting
continues, "and although they couldn't give me numbers the story was the
same, Windows Phone 7 Handsets are not selling."
The posting acknowledges MobilesPlease's findings aren't necessarily "
indicative of all retailers' position on Windows Phone 7."
Global retail numbers for the smartphones, however, remain ambiguous.
International reports indicated strong interest in Windows Phone 7, with
DigiTimes reporting "better than expected" movement on HTC-built devices in
Europe and Australia. Stocks of the devices were reportedly low in the U.K.,
where carrier Orange told media outlets that it had "limited amounts" of
the HTC 7 Mozart and Samsung Omnia 7 available to customers.
Within a day of the smartphone platform's Nov. 8 release in the United
States, reports indicated a high level of interest for devices offered
through AT&T and T-Mobile. "We did have lines in some of our markets across
the nation," an AT&T spokesperson reportedly told the Seattle Times. "There
definitely was anticipation for the phone."
But two days later, TheStreet.com reported that 40,000 Windows Phone 7
devices had sold during their first 24 hours' release. That number
reportedly came from an unnamed "market research source who tracks phone
sales." Microsoft has remained silent about hard numbers; if verified,
however, that 40,000 figure lags behind first-day numbers for the Apple
iPhone 4, one of Windows Phone 7's major competitors in the consumer
smartphone space.
Microsoft hopes Windows Phone 7 will allow it to seize share from not only
the iPhone, but also Google Android. It may be months, though, before a
definitive picture emerges of the smartphones' success or failure in the
market.
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Windows Phone 7 launched alongside a $500 million ad campaign last month to
lackluster sales estimated to be in the tens of thousands. In the UK, an
Orange launch event opened to a line of just two people. Damage control
headlines later suggested Orange had "sold out" of WP7 inventory without
suggesting how many units that actually involved.
Retail store checks by BGR of fifteen AT&T locations throughout the US found
dismal results for the new platform in its initial launch week, with the
best reports claiming sales of ten to fifteen units while around half of the
stores complained that they'd only sold between one and four of the new
devices. AT&T has since started a "buy one get one" promotion for WP7, but
hasn't released any hard sales data.
A report on mobile phone sales in the UK by MobilePlease and its network of
retail partner sites said Microsoft's WP7 was being eclipsed not only by
Android (14:1) but also accounted for just a third of the sales volumes of
the beleaguered Symbian^3 platform, represented almost entirely by one model
, the Nokia N8.
That report also noted that the new WP7 models "are by and large generic
phones from well known manufacturers, and in most cases an almost identical
model is available from the same manufacturer with Android, and given the
choice people seem to be picking Android."
An informal survey of other retailers in the report agreed that while "
demand for iPhone, Blackberry and HTC handsets was strong in the smartphone
sector," they too had observed that "Windows Phone 7 handsets are not
selling."

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【在 M********s 的大作中提到】
: Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is lagging behind Google Android and Symbian in
: early U.K. sales, according to a new report.
: Rate This Article:
: Poor Best
: E-mail
: Print
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: PDF Version
: Microsoft may have some trouble selling its new Windows Phone 7 smartphones,
: if a new British report is any indication.

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