American Start Selling Smartphones With Windows Phone 7 Was A Failure

On the first day sales of smartphones running Windows Phone 7 in the U.S., despite aggressive advertising, were sold only 40,000 vehicles, said Tuesday the site TheStreet with reference to the company that monitor consumer activity.

Representatives of Microsoft declined to comment on TheStreet sales data sets. Mobile operator T-Mobile, which, along with AT & T sells new smartphones in the U.S., also did not disclose the amount realized on the first day of devices, but noted that phones with Windows Phone 7 "aroused great interest among consumers."

For comparison: in the first three days of sales of the iPhone 4 in June, has sold more than 1.7 million units. Autumn Apple announced that the world's daily realized approximately 275,000 iPhone. Successfully marketed and smartphones based on Android - according to representatives of Google, each day in the world are the owners of about 200,000 vehicles with this operating system.

According to analysts, Microsoft made a mistake by choosing Monday for the start of sales of new products - Friday or Saturday would be preferable. In addition, customers could confuse the abundance of models - in the October presentation of Windows Phone 7 was shown once nine smartphones on this platform.

On Monday, the U.S. operator AT & T and T-Mobile began sales of four smart phones: Samsung Focus, LG Quantum, HTC Surround and HTC HD7. Experts believe that Microsoft is worth it to simplify the task of selecting users, offering only a couple of models - for example, the keyboard without it.

Analyst at research firm Nielsen Roger Entner (Roger Entner) believes that to draw conclusions about the fate of the smartphone market with Windows Phone 7 based on the first day of sales prematurely. Show promising devices for the holidays should be a rich year-end.