Well it comes to assessing the success of any product the sales figures is one key Key performance indicator. Nokia has been contending in smartphones market for sometime now and has pushed phones like N95, N97 and recently N900 along with less expensive N97 mini and new finger friendly touchscreen X6 phone.
Nokia has almost 45 percent share in smartphones market with 18.4 million phones of any type in the past quarter only.
Among these N97 smartphone is the leader with two million sets sold since the launch of this model.
These figures as per Nokia are surpassing their own expectations.
though the sales are good for overall Nokia, but it still trails behind Apple’s which sold 5.2 million iPhones in the same quarter making Nokia figures less relative.
I beleive Nokia N97 is a very good competing phone against iPhone, HTC touch series and Blackberry latest editions and is a attractive alternative, it all comes down to the available applications, developer community and a compelling software market place which can provide a real selling point to users.