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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: nilch on August 05, 2004, 11:00:04 pm

Title: any idea about Sl6000 sales figures in USA ?
Post by: nilch on August 05, 2004, 11:00:04 pm

Has anyone ever read something about how well (or most probably badly) the SL-6000 sales is doing in the US of A ?

I know corporate sales are hard to coroborate - but there must be some measuring benchmarks.

Title: any idea about Sl6000 sales figures in USA ?
Post by: dhns on August 06, 2004, 03:35:28 am

Here is what Gartner says for 1Q2004:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3179788164.html (http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3179788164.html)

52,300   Linux PDAs worldwide (I would assume 95% Sharp, 5% Yopy unless they have counted the Asian smartphones with Linux inside as well)

And Canalys for 2Q2004:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8941987592.html (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8941987592.html)

114,700 Linux PDAs worldwide

My rough guess would be that Sharp sells 70% in Japan 20% in USA and 10% in EU as they have all models in their home market Japan, the 5600&6000 in USA and only the 5500 in EU.

-- hns