14 DAY TRIAL // Wireless carrier Sprint launched the Palm Pre, the company's latest mobile phone and the first one to run under the recently unveiled webOS platform, about two months ago, yet it hasn't announced anything regarding the sales of the device until now. The only thing that Dan Hess, Sprint's CEO, said in this regard was that it was too early to make an appreciation of Pre's popularity.
Even so, analysts already started to make estimations regarding the performance of the mobile phone on Sprint's airwaves, and we already reported on some of them. The latest one comes from Walter Piecyk of Pali Capital, who has noted today on its blog that the device is well in the 25,000 units sold per week area.
This seems to be the mark at which the sales of the Palm Pre have stabilized after dropping from 50,000 and 30,000 units per week right after the launch. The demand for Pre has been quite high during the first weeks of availability, and Sprint had some problems with shipping enough devices to its customers, yet now things are settling down for the carrier too. At the same time, Palm will also be able to focus on delivering the GSM version of the Pre, which has been rumored to be delayed because of company's inability to meet demand for the CDMA version.
While these are only estimations of the sales volumes of the Pre, they still show something that might be really close to reality. Palm and Sprint haven't advertised the handset that much, and this might be a problem for the Pre in the end, though the sales levels tend to show otherwise. Considering that 25,000 units are shipped each week, we could count around 1.3 million units sold during the first year of availability, which is a great thing for a totally new device.
Hopefully, Sprint and Palm will release some details on the Pre's sales in the near future, and all will become more clear. In the meantime, we can only hope that these estimations are near reality, and that the device sees good traction on the market.