“While it still had its strongest launch ever, the company said it ‘erred’ and that sales were just equal to the combined sales of the Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct, not three times higher like it said on Monday,” Electronista reports. “It didn’t say how many of the Android phones actually sold, nor what had triggered the mistake.”
Electronista reports, “As yet unconfirmed estimates put the Evo 4G’s weekend sales at 200,000 phones, although this number may be in question given Sprint’s own belief that it was inaccurate.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Why waste your money on an iPhone wannabe when you can have the real thing?
Whoops my ass. Shouldn’t public companies an media be held to higher accountably standards?!
so does this mean that maybe only 67,000 phones were sold?
Re: MDN take
why waste your money on poor ATT service when you can have much better?
“… the company said it ‘erred’ and that sales were … not three times higher like it said on Monday, … “
“Microsoft acknowledged on Friday that it used an inaccurate number to represent research company IDC’s sales forecast for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform, … ”
“Errors” ?
I suspect not.
It walks like market manipulation.
It talks like market manipulation.
It looks like market manipulation.
I’d say it’s market manipulation, and it must be investigated.
Urlow:
Unfotunately there is no much better…if you think different, ( no pun intended) please let us know what the ” much better” alternative is… And please don’t say Verizon, they are nasty bullies that really don’t give a fuck about their customers.
NHL:
Write the SEC.
Maybe they had to account for large returns.
Breeze –
I was comparing ATT’s network to Sprint’s network, in light of the Evo (4G is wicked fast, unlimited, and 33% cheaper for me compared to what I was paying with ATT for the same minutes/txt/data, not to mention better M2M + 7pm nights)
the iphone 4 is without a doubt the best phone out there, but chained to ATT really reduces its appeal
I’m sad. My 32GB 3GS won’t be the best phone in the world for much longer. 🙁
Urlow:
Apple is starting to get pissed at ATT ( trust me on this), ATT is starting to get arrogant and snide, it’s still for the best part, handling the iPhone onslaught quite well dispute it’s shortfalls.
The cutting edge is the “bleeding edge”…don’t let that stop you…
Sprint and all of the others try to offer an almost the same matching device that can only follow with a imperfect elusion of something that is kind-alike what Apple is supplying.
It is like being in a desert and you are reaching for that cold icy glass of water and some idiot has a glass of warn swamp mud they are trying to get you to take.
@Urlow
Average phone that does 1,000 other things perfectly >>>> awesome phone that doesn’t do 15 other things well.
Pretty simple, actually.
Wow, an inaccurate press release could leave Sprint exposed to shareholder lawsuits.
I purchased one, not a bad phone, especially coming off my 3G, I was looking for an alternative to AT&T;, but i’m sucked back in with the 4G, there will be two 4G’s for my house as soon as they are released. The EVO will be going back, not a bad phone, probably the BEST alternative out there besides the iPhone……but it is no iPhone
Damn I hate AT&T;
What amuses me about the EVO is to get better battery life you have to:
Turn off 4G
Turn off wireless
Turn off the GPS
Turn the screen brightness to 50%
Delete the sense widgets
Disable the animated background
Use task killer every day
Don’t get me wrong, HTC makes one hell of a handset. I love the different home screens and customization of Android. But, Android does a piss poor job of handling all of these resources.
It all comes down to balance.
They are such filthy liars. When are they just going to give it up. Apple has won!
“MacDailyNews Take: Why waste your money on an iPhone wannabe when you can have the real thing?”
Hey MDN, have some respect for the choices of the ignorant people… :/
urlow:
Dude… give us an effing break -what- do you work for sprint?
Sprints network is truly horrid, dropped calls galore, constantly roaming to verizon for even voice coverage (their coverage for even voice calls is spotty at best (and non existent in most areas), 3G data is even worse.
As far as 4G putting up a few towers in a couple dozen major cities does not a network make (except perhaps to a failing, also ran, company like sprint)
Sprint is the -DISTANT- 3rd place network (and by the looks of things likely to drop to 4th behind t-mobile before long) they are also rip off artists, at least bad (or in most cases worse) than AT&T;or Verizon.
Question is why use a completely substandard network (as compared to the leading two) … unless of course, you work for them and get it free.
It was a rounding error.
Nice math error. How much you wanna bet apple beats that in preorders alone?
What a bunch of amateurs. If the thing is actually “sold out” at most locations (as claimed), the number you sold is approximately equal to the number you had in inventory with your started. How hard is that to figure out? Maybe it’s not even sold out…
This is what you get when you let the wireless carrier be in charge of the marketing for the hardware, and why Apple insists that ATT absolutely canNOT put iPhone in its marketing.
If Sprint sold Sushi they’d market it as “Cold Dead Fish”. They are bleeding customers and at the same time pushing the tech ahead of damn near everyone. Their customer service is a laugh-a-thon. Go Figure.
sunzabitches.
Game over man, game over. Apple has won. Everyone else to the shower, losers.
@breeze and @uncle festers cousin
Sorry to burst your perfectly hermetically sealed bubble but VERIZON is the superior network to all the others. If I was going to use a network that had to roam on either AT&T;or Verizon, I would pick the one that roamed on Verizon every time. Of course there are going to be certain instances where AT&T;may have better coverage but on average Verizon blows them out of the water. Just look at all the surveys done by consumer reports, et al. ( I do truly hate to admit that as I am sure most of you on here that are blinded by all things Apple. )
Even before AT&T;got the iPhone it was a second rate network. If it wasn’t for the merger with Cingular it would have ended up even further behind Sprint AND T-Mobile. It was only because of that merger that made them the largest carrier at the time, and still they couldn’t hold off Verizon. AT&T;and Cingular were two giant companies at the time of their mergers. I believe even without Verizon’s acquisition of Altel, which was much smaller in comparison, they still would have surpassed AT&T;. The out look for AT&T;would have been very bleak if they never even got the iPhone, which is why they were willing to take it sight unseen.
Due to coverage holes, weak signal and their switchover to GSM AT&T;was on a downward trend. The only way to curtail the bleeding was to merge with Cingular, which was having troubles of it’s own in the NY market. I do have to say, I was always impressed with Cingular’s ability to maintain the second spot among carriers even without it operating in the NY