Palm Sales at Verizon
December 10th, 2010, 10:06pm by KelvinThis graph from an ITG analyst confirms what Jake showed previously, that Palm sales at Verizon didn’t even register until they cut prices and threw in mobile hotspot in April. These data show manufacturer share of smartphone sales at Verizon. Pretty fascinating seeing how successful Android OEMs are. We can probably use the area under the Palm curve to calibrate the scale (total sell-in in january was about 900,000 units. I doubt they bought any more, but I could be wrong). We have other data points as well that we could use for reconciliation (Moto’s smartphone sales, Samsung’s Galaxy S sales, etc).
December 13th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Oh no need to calibrate– this version of the story has the absolute sales numbers for all Verizon handsets (993K total Palm sell through from Verizon). The original data comes from ITG “based largely on our proprietary daily point-of-sale data from thousands of independent wireless retailers across the US.” That is, they deploy “MikeC” to scope out the Green Burrito for a few days.
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101210/verizons-cure-for-crackberry-addiction-android/#disqus_thread