Nokia has announced official sales figures and company numbers for the 4th quarter of 2011, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Among the numbers is the fact that over a million Lumia phones have now found homes, but is that enough to compete? Read more
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Apple’s quarterly sales figures are out. And as expected, Cupertino has had another record breaking three months. The period from July to September saw Apple smash their previous Mac and iPad sales records, while the iPhone managed to shift huge numbers, despite the fact the iPhone 4S hadn’t even been announced at that point. Read on for the full breakdown of Apple’s results.
After news a couple of months ago that Amazon had sod more Kindle ebooks than paperbacks, those sales have now crept past sales of paperbacks too. For every 100 paperbacks bought on Amazon it sells around 115 Kindle ebooks, and Kindle ebooks sell triple the amount of hardbacks.
But while Amazon is talking a lot about sales of ebooks for the Kindle, what we still don’t know is how many it has sold. The last figure Amazon set on Kindle sales was simply to say “millions”, which is vague enough to mean almost nothing.
[via USA Today]
It’s Boxing Day, you’ve eaten all the turkey you can stomach for one year and if there are any walnuts left it will be a miracle. Now, clear up the last scraps of wrapping paper, fire up the laptop and get your gadget-buying face on. It’s time to bag the best bargains online.
Kinect has maxed out 2.5 million sales since its launch less than a month ago on US shores, and on 10 November over here in the UK. That’s a darn sight faster than the iPad, which took 80 days to hit the 3 million mark.
This means Microsoft has got just over 50 days to shift another 500,000 Kinect units, and it will be outselling the iPad. That looks likely, given that there’s still the busiest weekends of Christmas shopping to come.
Considering the iPad has been dubbed the “fastest-selling gadget of all time” that’s quite some going. Bravo, Microsoft.
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So Kinect has come to town and its flying off the shelves at quite a phenomenal rate. Microsoft has announced that the gesture controller has sold more than 2.5m since it launched 25 days ago. That’s a phenomenal achievement but the cynical among us at Electricpig towers do wonder about those numbers looking so damn symmetrical. Nice job in waiting to get the figures to line up so neatly Microsoft PR bots! 2.5m, 25 days? Boom!
Out now | £129 | Kinect
Apple TV has sold over 250,000 units since its launch in September, despite the fact that it’s a revamped version of an existing Apple product, and didn’t come packing the app store that was rumoured and that lots of us were hoping for from Apple TV. The quarter of a million Apple TV units sold has been racked up in six weeks, and while it’s a long way off the 1.7m that the iPhone 4 sold in just three days, rumours about an Apple TV app store persist, and could push sales higher, should they come good.
Would you buy an Apple TV if an app store appeared?
[via BGR]