Talk about your comeback stories. Rocky’s got nothing on Palm.
According to Edward Snyder, an analyst at Equity Research, Palm has sold 300,000 units of the Pre in June. This is based on numbers checked against manufacturing and retail channels for the device. PreCentral adds that the analyst reported May sales figures topping 70,000.
That would be a total of 370,000 devices in two months. The previously struggling Palm shipped 351,000 phones in the whole fiscal quarter preceding that.
Customer having his new Pre rung up. Photo via PreCentral.net
According to PhoneArena, Ed is considered a skeptic in the industry, so it’s fascinating that his numbers are showing such huge numbers. If these are the pessimistic numbers, then I can’t imagine where all this is going to go.
Good for us phone fans that Snyder can. He predicts — at the current rate of 15,000 units manufactured per day — that Palm will ship 1 million of the new smartphones by the end of its first quarter after the Pre launch.
He also believes that a WCDMA version of the phone (in other words, a GSM Pre) “appears imminent.” And while Sprint may hold exclusive rights to sell this handset in the U.S., that doesn’t mean other carriers couldn’t offer other phones loaded with WebOS. In fact, he predicts Verizon will be selling one early next year, with AT&T following shortly afterward.
Verizon and AT&T jumping on board the WebOS train? Well, that may not be a new rumor, but this kind of validation — from someone other than a fanboy — is just plain exciting.
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PhoneArena,
PreCentral.net]
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