Nexus One sales disappoint, just 80,000 in first month

According to analytics group that the first week of sales for the Nexus One, far below expectations, the first month sales aren’t any better for the device, Google has only managed to shift 80,000 units its first month. That figure doesn’t compare well against the 600,000 that the first Iphone managed.

Google’s poor sales could be the end result of poor advertising with a small budget compared to the iPhone and Droid.  The Google Nexus One is also limited to T-Mobile, but does come unlocked, if purchase through Google’s website. The silver lining for Google, if there is one, is that Motorola managed to flog 525,000 units in its first month, which goes to show there is an appetite in the mobile market for Android powered devices. If Google didn’t want to step on the toes of other handset manufacturers then surely it shouldn’t have entered the handset business.

Google has taken flak for its support model, with users having to rely on web-based methods to get support from Google and handset manufacturer HTC to solve their problems. With the widely reported problems of the Nexus One on T-Mobile’s 3G network only being fixed in the last few days, that couldn’t have helped sales either. Finally there remains the fact that Google has, despite its formidable web presence, failed to advertise its new toy effectively.

Eric Schmidt said that “the Nexus One is really about is a new way of buying a phone” but it appears that either people haven’t heard about it yet or not that many want to buy Google’s phone.