Smart phones sold to retail customers totaled 408,000 units, down 15% from a year earlier and 29% sequentially
By some estimates, Apple pre-sold more iPads online in one week than Palm sold smartphones through Sprint and Verizon stores in 3 months. What’s more remarkable is that year-on-year decline implies Palm sold more Windows Mobile devices than WebOS which was not on the market a year ago.
link: Palm Narrows Loss but Retail Sales Decline – WSJ.com
- The company said there are over 2,000 apps in the Palm App Catalog.
- ASP was $367, down from $375.
- Almost all volume was from WebOS products (Windows Mobile devices are gone)
- For Q4, the company expects revenue to be less than $150 million.
- Q4 gross margin likely in the mid-teens.
- Guidance for $150 million in revenue, down 57% sequentially.
After hours market cap for Palm is about $833 million down 13%. Expected revenue and ASP imply about 410k units will be sold into the channel in the following quarter.