Don't count Microsoft out of the mobile game: Windows Phone 7 is selling better than expected in Europe and Australia.
According to a report in Digitimes based on reports from Taiwanese manufacturers, stocks of HTC's HD7 are currently gone at German carrier O2, and Australia's Telstra is out of the HTC Mozart. Last week, U.K. carrier Orange warned its retail managers about likely shortages of the Mozart and Samsung Omnia.
Low inventory due to component shortages may be partly to blame. Even so, high early demand is good news for Microsoft's mobile ambitions, as it tries to recapture some of the market share it's lost over the last several years as Windows Mobile has been eclipsed by Android and the iPhone.
|