Low Windows Phone 7 product sales fail to interest blogosphere

Windows Phone 7 sales statistics are a mystery the first week after Microsoft’s smartphone was released. Sales numbers for smartphones are a standard PR opportunity that Microsoft has passed on. Most gadget-makers flood the web with press releases announcing enthusiastic customer demand. The company’s deficiency of PR about Windows Phone 7 revenue leads analysts to believe the product is a dud.

No information on the Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 sales are likely disappointing, despite Microsoft’s $500 million “Phone to conserve us from our phones” ad campaign. When Apple’s iPhonecame out it sold an average of 143,000 a day for the first few weeks. Mediapost says that may be a reason the Windows Phone 7 is doing the way it is assumed to be doing, because it had been launched on multiple handsets. An industry analyst told Mediapost that in some stores Windows Phone 7 devices had sold out, but it likely was due to limited supply instead of robust demand.

Press looking the other way due to Kinect

Windows Phone 7 sales reports were conspicuously missing from Microsoft’s annual shareholders meeting kept in Bellevue, Wash., on Tuesday. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked up the company’s Kinect gaming console instead. Within the first 10 of the Kinect's launch, it sold over one million. Samsung, LG, and HTC were the platforms the Windows Phone 7 were released on, November 7, through both AT&T and T-Mobile. Ballmer did say at the conference the Windows Phone 7, "marks the beginning, we think, of a new era in intelligent phones. The reaction has been really fantastic."

The battle for Microsoft Smartphones

Windows Phone 7 sales aren’t expected to be impressive, according to the blogosphere. The LA Times said a problem arose with the Samsung Focus in which the phone is "frying" the Windows Phone 7 cards. The phone is insecure and the Office apps run badly as outlined by PC World. TechieInsider said that for Microsoft to be successful in the smartphone market, it can’t release products full of bugs and fix them along the way like it has always done with its desktop software.

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Information Week

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MediaPost

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Techie Insider

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Techie Insider

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