Android Outselling Windows Phone 7 In UK, Says Retailer

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UK-based mobile phone sales site MobilesPlease has announced that they’re seeing Android and Symbian^3 phones just crush the new Windows Phone 7 in initial sales. It’s been about a month since WP7 was introduced internationally, and they’re seeing Android best WP7 15:1 and Symbian^3 (basically the Nokia N8) outsell WP7 3:1. Does this mean that Windows Phone 7 isn’t selling?

Full disclosure, strictly speaking, MobilesPlease isn’t a retailer. They aggregate the best deals and rates for each phone on each carrier, then direct you to buy them through another site and make money on some sort of affiliate deal. Still, they’re getting some sort of data on whose buying what phones. Regardless, take this with a grain of salt.

To correlate their findings, MobilesPlease went to other sellers, including carrier-owned stores and The Carphone Warehouse. The rival sellers wouldn’t confirm or deny numbers, but did tell MobilesPlease that WP7 devices “are not selling”.

Despite critical acclaim, the tech blog echo chamber has not been kind to WP7, news wise. Early reports were that the new OS was getting just 40,000 new activations on the first day (compared to the iPhone and Android’s 250,000 new activations per day – each). Now, their is a slight controversy regarding “revenue guarantees” that Microsoft made to developers – and now developers are made that Microsoft is withholding monies made through app sales until February 2011.

As mentioned though, despite all the negative attention and the “Gotcha!” headlines, most people who have or have tried Windows Phone 7 seem to like it. Remember that Android was worse off when it first came out, and now it’s doing quite well. Windows Phone 7 could follow a similar path.