Reportedly 300,000 Evos sold

[bnewt]

"So far, Sprint has sold 300,000 Evo 4G phones, according to the Macquarie Group"

HTC Evo shortages may hinder Sprint's 4G lead - FierceWireless

 

[trooper54]

Yea, saw that in the WSJ this morning. Still a far climb from that iCrap though...

 

[6tr6tr]

While 300,000 isn't bad, how the heck are they out of stock in 95% of the stores I've visited with those numbers? That's not that amazing or even that far beyond the Palm Pre when it first came out.

Palm Pre Sales Topped 300,000 In June, Analyst Says - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com

From last year:

Palm (PALM) Pre sales into the channel in June were above 300,000 units, according to Charter Equity Research analyst Ed Snyder

 

[pwnst_r]

300k is pretty weak.

 

[Kedar]

They always understock.
They did with the Instinct and Palm Pre.

I hope the numbers are actually better than the Palm Pre's numbers. Also, the Palm Pres had more returns... many more returns.

 

[kbritt#WP]

I've heard 450k from analysts quoted in a Sprint press release

 

[adcustom]

That's pathetic. Obviously there are tons of people out there who want one and can't get one. This is a huge mistake on both Sprint and HTC's part.

 

[NokiaNokia]

here is the reason why

DailyTech - Sprint's EVO 4G Plagued by Component Shortages

 

[storino03]

What Sprint needs to do is make more available for a phone launch and just hope for the best. Most high profile phones they release sell really well and go out of stock. With more supply in the beginning, they can get the sales numbers they need before people get sick of waiting and move to the next big phone.

 

[cg1492]

What Sprint needs to do is make more available for a phone launch and just hope for the best. Most high profile phones they release sell really well and go out of stock. With more supply in the beginning, they can get the sales numbers they need before people get sick of waiting and move to the next big phone.

It's not always the resellers fault, if sprint ordered 1 million and HTC only had the parts for 400,000 then sprint just has to wait for the rest. Regaurdless of poor planning or not, htc also relies on other manufactures to supply their parts, if they are short then htc is short. There are alot of arguments to made here about why they are short, but only time will tell if this will hurt or not hurt sprint.