Andre Yoskowitz
10 Nov 2009 15:29
According to analyst Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech, Motorola and Verizon sold about 100,000 DROID phones in its first weekend of availability.
Verizon is said to have had 200,000 of the smartphone on hand, and most stores sold about half of their stock. Overall, Motorola will sell 1 million phones using Android in the Q4 2009.
100,000 is a very high weekend launch number by normal standards, but the Apple iPhone 3GS sold over 1 million during its launch weekend in June.
“I see the first few days as encouraging,” McKechnie adds. “There seems to be pretty good demand -- they’ve taken the right steps and picked a good partner with Google on the Android side.”