There have been several reports on the Internet quoting Microsoft's sales figure of 14.3 million Windows Mobile phones sold in 2nd half of 2007. This has been picked up by Windows fan sites such as Supersite for Windows and endorsed without any clarifications. Some observations :
1. Microsoft's figures are worldwide. Note that Apple only started selling iPhones in the UK and Germany half way through 2H of 2007. Whilst sales in France were in the last month of 2007. The figures quoted by Canalys only relate to the US market, which given the limited number of countries officially selling outside of the US, makes it more useful as a yard-stick indicator of growth :
