We've yet to see Palm or Sprint confirm these numbers, but a quote from JPMorgan found in a
Wall Street Journal roundup this morning asserts that "sales [of the Pre] in the first two days probably exceeded 50,000." The report continues by mentioning that said figure was "aligned with expectations, but probably fell short of the
146,000 reported first-gen iPhone sales" during its opening weekend due to "capacity constraints in manufacturing." By and large, most analysts are deeming the
Pre launch a success, though it's hard to say whether the suits at Palm and Sprint agree or disagree. No matter how you slice it, 50,000 units in a single weekend ain't nothing to scoff at, but we'd say
next weekend's sales could be even more telling. You know, if anything goes down
today at 1:00PM ET.
[Via
ZDNet]
Update: A new
WSJ report now says analyst ranges are between
50,000 and 100,000. Heck, maybe Palm sold eleventy billion.
posted Jun 8th 2009 at 10:43AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Periks19 @ Jun 8th 2009 11:34AM
Is not that bad and also engadget you forgot to add how the palm didn't advertise the phone like apple did when the first one came out.
Brian @ Jun 8th 2009 11:48AM
The real question for Sprint is, How many new customers signed up VS how many were simply upgrading their device? New customers are far more valuable than simply upgrading existing customers. Id say way less than half were new customers from my experience in store on Saturday morning, and thats really a sad launch. They might break even this month on customer defections from Nextel/Sprint to Verizon/ATT/tmobile.
mikethepirate @ Jun 8th 2009 11:54AM
Great news for Palm :-). I'm a iPhone guy myself but the idea of one of the original smartphone makers closingg was something I didn't like. Hopefully the launch troubles we have seen are just small issues and can be resolved and Palm becomes a relevant competitor again.
Vellie @ Jun 8th 2009 4:18PM
Nice reply dude!!!!
Achilles @ Jun 8th 2009 4:22PM
Classy, honest reply!
feed @ Jun 8th 2009 12:30PM
I left spring two years ago for Verizon, when I saw I could get a centro. I've been a palm user since the late 90's, and a sprint customer since I got my hands on a Treo 300. The Palm Pre brought me back to Sprint.
I am very happy for palm and sprint that they moved 50K phones, and based on my impressions over a weekend of heavy duty with the Pre, there will be many more.
I wanted an iphone at one point, but didn't want to leave Verizon. I was envious of iphone users. What a beautiful phone. Well, now I can proadly boast that the phone i have is the top of the peak. And will be for awhile. One day, though, iphone or blackberry or rim will come out with something nicer, and the leader will change. It's really great for consumers and the market as a whole.
Count me in as one satisfied Pre customer, anxiously waiting to get my hands on the SDK, and proud to boast this is the best phone on the American market.
Achilles @ Jun 8th 2009 4:31PM
I agree. I'm loving my Pre! I've been a multi-tasking fiend since I got it on Saturday morning. It's a Pre 1.0 so I'm expecting the the few bugs I've seen and some of the omissions which will come with SW updates (already updated once and it's a good, quick upgrade).
This phone has a ton of potential and the app store will only make it better once the core OS is opened up to developers.
I can't say enough about this phone. I'm liking what I've seen with the UI. The WebOS is a great, stable platform (lack of memory expansion is my biggest gripe but new models will address this, anyone remember iPhone 1.0?)
New iPhone coming at end of the month. Congrats to Apple users, looks good. I'm just not about AT&T and their so called 3G network (terrible network and price plans blow). Nothing against the iPhone itself (great phone) .
Eric @ Jun 8th 2009 12:30PM
um, i thought the 5800 sold half a million it's first month then ramped up to 1 million per month since. I guess american numbers are always sad. webos sounds fantastic but I guess we'll wait a few months before it goes global?
big_psirex @ Jun 8th 2009 12:40PM
Can't wait to stop on the way home to pick mine up!
va jj @ Jun 8th 2009 1:14PM
is eleventy even a word?
suprsonic @ Jun 8th 2009 11:41PM
I plan on switching from my orginal iPhone sometime down the road to a Palm WebOS. Once some bugs are worked out and I hope the price will come down in the next 6 months to a year or so. Until than OS 3.0 will have to hold me over when it comes out on the 17th.
tluv00 @ Jun 9th 2009 9:42AM
Supposedly Pre will be on Verizon in Jan. 2010 Apparently it will take that long for VZ to cripple the phone.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/06/08/palm-pre-on-verizon-in-january/