Windows Phone Thoughts: 20 Million Windows Mobile Handsets Sold in 2008!

"The numbers are in for Microsoft's Windows Mobile sales in 2008 and according to Steve Balmer's keynote at CES, they sold some 20 million sets running Windows last year. It will be interesting to see how they fare this year as the competition keeps growing with Android, WebOS, Palm's Pre, and of course iPhone. We have to tell ya though, with HTC leading the charge with a never ending flow of sweet sets, Windows Mobile will likely stay competitive throughtout his year. We've no clue what hardware's going to win this war, but we are sure that we'll hear all the Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah when they do."

Windows Mobile might be slowly losing grace with the Internet crowd but it is incredibly hard to ignore Microsoft's recent sales figures of 20 million licenses sold in 2008, with 11 devices each selling one million units or more! I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that Microsoft can pull another eight figure sales year out of their hat in 2009, which shouldn't be that hard with the way HTC is turning out one sexy device after another these days. Hopefully the expected release of Windows Mobile 6.5 sometime later this year will also help Microsoft in their quest back to the top in the smartphone world.