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Nexus One sales after 74 days: 135,000 vs 1 million for the iPhone and 1.05 million for the Droid

Categories: Android, T-Mobile
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 6:48 AM

Remember when Apple sent out that press release saying they sold 1 million of their highly anticipated iPhone? Where were you when it hit the newswire? It took 74 days for Apple to do it, and that’s the benchmark that most new phones will be measured against. Flurry, an application analytics firm that claim at least 80% of applications running on the iPhone and Android devices have their tracking software embedded, says that after 74 days of being on sale, the Nexus One has had only moved 135,000 units.

Take this number in context. The Nexus One went on sale after the holiday shopping season, it only ran on one network: T-Mobile, and you could only buy it online. I’m personally responsible for two of those sales (the other Nexus One went to a friend of mine in Finland) and our newest Editor Blake brings that number up to three. Will has one, but he got it for free because he went to some Google event. Bastard.

So is it right to call the Nexus One a failure? We don’t know what benchmarks Google internally, and we don’t know how many Nexus Ones they have sitting in some warehouse collecting dust. It’s a tough call. The fact that the Droid sold 50,000 more units in 74 days compared to the iPhone says that people like Android, so that’s not the issue here. The platform is sound.

Most people who will be using a Nexus One by the end of this year are not going to be using the “Nexus One” straight from Google, they’ll have the HTC Desire, otherwise known as the “Nexus One with HTC’s secret sauce”. I’m more interested to see how those units move rather than the stock (read: bland) Android 2.1 packing Nexus One.

Oh and one more thing … The iPhone 3GS, which went on sale globally, sold 1 million units in 3 days.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Steven

    This tells me that Google is not out to sell a great deal of phones, but to change the market. There is talk of their wanting to become a carrier. It all ties in.

  • nondual

    would be interesting to see how many HTC HD2 have been sold in the same time frame. my bro just switched to a HD2, having had the 3GS for several month. apparently, he’s very happy so far (as a business-user; he doesn’t mind games much).

  • Marin Perez

    You hit it at the end Stefan, once the iPhone was $200 (same price as Nexus One and Droid) it sold a million in a weekend. The original iPhone vs. Droid comparison is somewhat valid but remember the iPhone cost a fortune when it first came out and it still sold well.

  • Kevin

    Geez, it was only on T-Mobile and with no advertising or real media hype.

    Let’s see how it does on Verizon and others.