Mobile analytics firm, Flurry, has tracked Droid sales to be 250,000 in its first week which they calll a strong
result for Motorola and Verizon. Although it was not as spectacular as the iPhone 3G, it showed the Droid is the fastest-selling Android phone
to date.
Compared to the myTouch 3G on T-Mobile, Droid outsold it by
more than four times. Verizon has nearly 90 million
subscribers to T-Mobile's 34 million. Verizon has a $100 million
campaign. Motorola forecastsits own Droid sales at one million
through the end of the year or an ad cost of
$100 per handset sold.
Flurry notes that Verizon's aggressive campaign adn 3G network advantage in key, populous regions of the country like the
Northeast, position the Droid as a legitimate challenger to the iPhone.