Microsoft: We'll Sell 30 Million Phones in 18 Months
Microsoft has great expectations for Windows Phone 7.
With the Kin One and Two impressing approximately no one, the world is looking to Windows Phone 7 to see what Microsoft is really bringing to the table in terms of competition for Apple and Google.
The first WP7 consignment is due in the fall of this year. Ballmer says in time for the holidays but several reports suggest some manufacturers will get their ducks in a line in time for a September launch. Despite a launch that is no where close to the Windows Phone 7 announcement (which was back in March), Microsoft is extremely optimistic about the OS and how many phones the company will shift.
Microsoft is estimating they'll sell 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices by the end of 2011, or in the next 18 months. When you take away the three months between now and September, that gives Microsoft just 15 months to sell 30 million units. That's 2 million phones per month.
At a ReMix conference in France yesterday, Microsoft said it expects 40 percent of the phones sold in 2011 to be smartphones. This is compared with just 14 percent of phones this year. It seems the company believes that with this high number, the company believes it can shift 30 million devices by the end of 2011.
MobileTechWorld, which attended the conference, reminds us that to date, Apple has sold 51,234,000 iPhones.
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Talk about optimism!
Thats quite a bold comment, they are going to have some pretty good advertising and some REALLY good prices (I wont complain for the latter
).
Unless the media gets behind them and the phones in question, theres no way in heck that they'll sell that many.
Apple release a new mac book/ipda and every single damn tech site jumps all over it, opens the damn things up and everything. Toshiba, Dell, Fujitsu, HP... just the usual mention.
Microsoft has a hard time ahead of it and I wish them luck (..I'm sitting next to a HTC HD2 which is an amazing phone, but, no one wants to know as its not an iPhone)
From what I've seen so far, Im very interested in one of those.
If they market it right and actually make the phone decent and fast, I see no reason why they wouldn't sell that many.
Seconded. Plus I'm sure the Win7 phone would have none of the restrictive shit of the iPhone.
Not to me they wont. I wouldnt buy anything I am not forced too from MS. They are gradually destroying my oldest hobby (gaming) and I have totally lost count in the ways in which the screw over my clients and I on a daily basis. (VOIP-SOA Consultant)
Hopefully this will go the same way as all microsofts other forays into the telecoms market. Expensive screw ups like TSAPI, VOIP.