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Best Selling Windows Mobile Devices

Posted by Steve Mueller on February 9, 2009 – 6:39 am  Share
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When it was announced that Windows Mobile sold 20 million devices last year, it was also mentioned that 11 devices had sales of one million or more.  Curious about what those devices were, Mike Temporale of Mobile Jaw asked Greg Sullivan what those top sellers were.  Here’s the list (grouped by manufacturer):

  • Samsung Omnia (SGH-i900/908/SCH-i910/M490)
  • Samsung Blackjack II (SGH-i617)
  • Samsung Blackjack (SGH-i607/600)
  • Motorola Q
  • Audiovox SMT 5600 (HTC)
  • HTC Touch Diamond (Diamond/Diamond-C)
  • HTC Dash (Excalibur)
  • HTC xv6800  (Titan)
  • HTC TyTN II (Tilt/Kaiser)
  • HTC Touch (Elf/Vogue)
  • HTC P800W (Artemis)

Mike noticed that 5 of the 11 devices didn’t have touch screens and that 7 of 11 had QWERTY keyboards.  That led him to wonder if the preoccupation over developing an iPhone competitor was the best use of resources.

Personally, I say why not develop great touch screen devices — and keep developing other form factors, too.  That flexibility is one of the strengths of Windows Mobile.  What do you guys think?

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  • @undude:

    I don't know about the sales, but it's not really a fair comparison. The various form factors of Windows Mobile devices could cannibalize each others' sales.

    Even if you restrict the comparison to just AT&T, they have more than one Windows Mobile phone. On their site I saw the Pantech Duo, LG Incite, Motorola Q Global, Samsung Epix, Samsung BlackJack II and the HTC Fuze.

    So I think it's fair to compare their total sales against the sales of the iPhone (which also has a few models if you count memory and color options).

    Steve
  • we consumers love lots of devices, but they are expensive to develop and not all designs sell equally well. many of the devices on that list are winmo standard devices, these were selling well until the single iphone arrived on the scene.

    so, does anyone know if there is a single winmo device that is compelling enough to sell as well as the iphone in america?
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