Windows Phone Sells An All-Time Low Q2 2011

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Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone Mango devices are garnering a lot of attention. But the Windows Phone devices that are already out are not faring as well. According to analyst asymco, Windows Phone saw its lowest-selling quarter this Q2 of 2011, selling only 1.4 million phones, which means Microsoft sold only 1.3% share of units.

As you can see on the graphs below, there’s a terrible decline with Windows Phone sales. Its US and EU5 shares in particular dropped from 2.8% to 2.2%. Asymco, however, believes that there’s something beyond just the numbers — it believes that Microsoft has a plan. The analysts might not have explicitly stated it, but it was implied that in the future, it might provide incentives (like paid commission) to vendors who’d be willing to prominently display and promote its devices.

After all, Microsoft originally had a $400 million budget specifically for the promotion of the Windows Phone devices. But it doesn’t seem to have been used thus far. It remains to be seen whether Nokia’s Windows Phone devices could salvage both Microsoft’s and Nokia’s ailing shares in the market.