Android phones which are for the most part the G1 from T-Mobile have sold a million units in 71 days which is 3 days faster than the 74 days needed for the iPhone.
Alexander Muse, of Big In Japan (creator of ShopSavvy), has compiled the G1 sales statistics for his keynote presentation at an Android Developer Camp in Amsterdam.
This is the first Android DevCamp in Amsterdam and is to be held on Thursday January 8th by organizer Peter Robinett – previous Android developer meetups occurred in Dallas Texas and Bangalore India.
Alexander has posted some interesting facts that counter the common misconception that Android is faltering in relation to perceived iPhone domination.
- The G1 has outsold the iPhone within approximately 70 days of their respective launches.
- The G1 has a 3 to 1 penetration rate over iPhone within their respective mobile providers (T-Mobile & AT&T)
- 4% of the 25 million T-Mobile customers has a G1 compared to 1.5% of the 65.7 million AT&T customers having an iPhone
- The 100 million European T-Mobile users will be offered the G1 for FREE
Do you think the percentage number of Europeans getting a FREE G1 may be a bit higher than 4%?
Now attach that percentage to 100 million plus!
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Is there a G2 comming in early 2009 and will the U.S. be offered free G1/G2s?
@ Matt
From the information I have, the phone that will be dubbed the G2 wont be coming out until Q2 2009 – April at the earliest.
I dont see either the G1 or G2 being offered for free in the US, but Im sure the G1 will be heavily discounted upon the G2s release – assumably around the $100 price point.
Well, good for those who get to experience Android already. I guess, I’d wait for the price to go down.
I read the original article and it refers to the manufacturers ‘sales forecast’ – not actual sales numbers.
Have you got any real figures?
I not only checked the article you linked to, I checked the article that article links to. None of the #’s are concrete they are all projections. And who cares if the gphone gets to a million faster. in the 3rd quarter of ’08 the iphone sold 7 million units while RIM sold 5 million units. You start showing me those numbers and I’ll believe the hype of the android platform being an iphone killer. Right now, you’re trying to hype the phone but thats all it is: hype. He’ll if Android is a good enough OS people might be iphone to jailbreak and put android on them. The gphone isn’t anything special, forget the hardware, make the software good and people will find hardware to put it on. Build it and they will come. The field of dreams model.
you have your wish. android phones are now selling at a rate of 60,000 a day. thats already ahead of RIM and hot on the heels of the iphone.
sounds funny to hear an apple fanboy pointing the finger at android and declaring its all "hype".
you have competition now. and android isn't stopping anytime soon.
Interesting that browser stats for Android users just don’t register, while those for iPhone do.
"The G1 has outsold the iPhone within approximately 70 days of their respective launches". ………………. This statement is false…
And why is it false Mr. iphone (jealous?) user?