Google Nexus 4 sales may just have topped one million units. The announcement comes not from Google or LG but from xda-developers where some enterprising forum users developed a formula that lets them to estimate how many smartphones have been manufactured based on crowd-sourced IMEI numbers. It so happens that a recent submission suggests that the million unit milestone has […]
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LG Sells One Million LG Optimus G smartphones
LG announced on Friday that sales of its LG Optimus G smartphone have topped one million units since its launch late last year. Currently available in Canada, Japan, South Korea and the United States, LG also plans to offer it in China and several European countries sometime this quarter. LG has a ways to go to catch up with top […]
Microsoft Surface RT sales only reach 1 million last quarter?
Microsoft’s tablet business may be off to a slow start. Rumours back in November suggested that Microsoft had reduced its 2012 orders from 4 million to 2 million units. UBS analyst Brent Thill now expects that Microsoft may have only sold about 1 million Surface RT tablets in Q4 2012. Thill cites two reasons for the low sales: “Surface RT […]
Samsung Galaxy S sales top 100 million units
Samsung today announced that cumulative global channel sales of its Galaxy S series devices have now topped 100 million units. The series is made up of the original Samsung Galaxy S which launched in June 2010 as well as its successors, the Galaxy S II and current flagship, the Galaxy S III. The original Samsung Galaxy S has now shipped […]
Microsoft Surface RT supply chain orders cut by half?
Following rumours that Surface RT sales were not meeting Microsoft’s own sales forecasts comes word that supply chain orders for Microsoft’s tablet have been cut in half. Citing its usual “sources from the upstream supply chain,” Digitimes indicates that Microsoft has reduced its 2012 orders from 4 million to 2 million units. Prospects for the upcoming quarter may not be […]
Samsung Galaxy Note II sales top 5 million in first two months (Updated)
It only took Samsung 37 days to sell its first 3 million Samsung Galaxy Note IIs. Now barely two months after going on sale, it appears that sales of Samsung’s latest phablet have now topped 5 million units. The numbers come from SammyHub rather than Samsung directly. You can be sure that Samsung will announce its latest milestone shortly if […]
Surface RT tablet sales to fall short of Microsoft forecasts?
Sales of the Surface tablet may not meet Microsoft’s own sales forecasts if a report by Digitimes is accurate. Citing “sources from upstream component suppliers,”, the report suggests that sales started slowly and may only reach about 60% of Microsoft’s forecast by year’s end. Microsoft is expected to continue to face challenging conditions over the holiday shopping season. Two reasons […]
Microsoft Surface RT sales off to a “modest” start
Microsoft has yet to reveal any Surface for Windows RT tablet sales numbers but but CEO Steve Ballmer may have given us our best hint so far how things are going. In an interview with French-language Le Parisien, Ballmer described initial sales as “modest” but did not provide specific numbers. Ballmer went on to explain that this modest start is […]