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Windows Phone 7 Shipments Topped Two Million Units Last Quarter

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 10:13 am PT

Redmond offers an update on how many of the phones have shipped to carriers, but it’s still unclear just how quickly consumers themselves are buying the new Windows Phones. For its part, AT&T also won’t give specifics, but says sales have steadily increased since launch.

Guess What? Apple Now Takes in More for Each iPhone Than for iPad

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Because of subsidies, consumers pay far less for the iPhone than for the iPad. However, in terms of what Apple gets in revenue, these days it actually makes slightly more for the average iPhone than it does for the larger iPad. Mobilized takes a look at the numbers.

Why Verizon’s iPhone Won’t Be So Bad for RIM

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 10, 2011 at 9:29 am PT

A year ago, an iPhone on Verizon would have been a disaster for Research In Motion. This year, it will only sting, which says a lot about how RIM’s business has improved.

Worldwide IT Spending Growth Speeds Up, Gartner Says

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 6, 2011 at 7:48 am PT

Good news, right? Yes, but it’s complicated by the weakness of the U.S. dollar.

Microsoft “Happy” With Windows Phone 7 Sales

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 8, 2010 at 12:26 pm PT

Windows Phone 7 has been on the market for a month now, but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give out any concrete sales numbers. In a backstage interview at D: Dive Into Mobile, Vice President Joe Belfiore kept up the trend, but he did say that the company is pleased with sales figures, even if it won’t quantify them.

Palm Sold 300,000 Pres in June

John Paczkowski in News on June 30, 2009 at 5:10 am PT

During its post-earnings conference call last Thursday, Palm refused to say how many Pre handsets have been sold to date. Or how many it believes it will sell in the first quarter of production. The company would say only, in the words of CEO Jon Rubinstein, that “sales have been strong and growing.” So until Palm provides specific Pre sales figures, we have only the estimates of analysts with which to gauge the device’s impact on Palm’s moribund smartphone franchise. And the latest estimates, from Edward Snyder at Charter Equity Research, suggest that the impact is great.