Ah, you know the Windows Mobile fanboy in me is smiling right now. That big ol' Kool-Aid smile from yesteryear.
You all remember the much quoted news that the iPhone outsold all Windows Mobile phones ever made, ever? (Okay, slight exaggeration but you know how Steve Jobs can be. Boom.) Well, Microsoft released some numbers of their own today with totals of 14.3 million sold in the last 6 months worldwide. Six months - 14 million phones running Windows Mobile. Boom.
The number, as the spokesperson for Microsoft acknowledged was "ahead of RIM and of course Apple's iPhone".
Top leaders? The HTC Touch and the Samsung BlackJack (what? no Motorola Q9's???) I can vouch for the BlackJack's, they are pretty popular even with folks who don't know Windows Mobile from Campbell's Soup but no Q's??? No T-Mobile Shadows? No AT&T Tilt's?
Go figure.
Another peak behind the curtain revealed Microsoft has a "Platinum Club", any device that reaches at least a million units sold gets to hob nob with, er, somebody at Microsoft. Maybe the Touch and the BlackJack are sipping latte's together right now in the private club area?
via Engadget Mobile
No Sprint Moguls either, apparently, and that's a shock given that the upcoming firmware update (scheduled for the 22nd if rumor serves right this time) has generated a lot of new interest in them. It will finally enable GPS and miscellaneous bug fixes.
Posted by: GoodThings2Life | February 11, 2008 at 03:40 PM
Yeah, didn't mean to slight Sprint Mogul users.
I'm really curious now as to how these phones are doing: Motorola Q9 on the three carriers, the Mogul, how the BlackJack II, the Shadow? All very compelling Windows Mobile devices and, judging by the interest generated, I thought they'd all be doing better.
Posted by: Contributing Writer, Aaron J. Walker | February 11, 2008 at 04:29 PM
Whoopee do - the fact is the system on a Palm Treo 750v sucks bigtime! Worst phone and OS I have ever used. Why Palm ditched their own OS I am not sure but it was BIG mistake to go with MS.
Posted by: Neal Taylor | February 11, 2008 at 04:51 PM
Sorry to hear about your problems with the Palm 750v Neal.
Sometimes it's the OS, sometimes it's the implementation of that OS considering carriers will often muck things up with their own "homebrew".
But I'd hesitate say where the fault lies without having more information. Seems a lot of 750v users weren't happy with their phones but a lot of it was hardware/hardware implementation.
Posted by: Contributing Writer, Aaron J. Walker | February 11, 2008 at 06:57 PM