A few days ago, we wrote about how Nokia was doing in comparison to Apple and the iPhone 4. It was in response to a piece about sales of the Nokia N8 and the Apple iPhone 4, where we felt the need to point out that the Nokia N8 is on track to become one of Nokia’s best selling smartphones ever. Our piece generated lots of comments from you guys – join us after the cut to find out more…
The Nokia N8 is following in the footsteps of the Nokia 5800, which has sold over 13 million units, and is firmly on track to become one of Nokia’s best selling handsets ever. Nokia estimates that 2.5 million Nokia N8′s will be sold by the end of Christmas, with around 11.5 million sold by the end of next year.
Despite this, an article in V3.co.uk pointed out that sales of the Nokia N8 are “underwhelming”, highlighting the success of the Apple iPhone 4 as a reason why it thinks Nokia’s targets simply aren’t good enough.