Flurry says it did - but says Nexus One has only shifted 135,000 units.
Analytics firm Flurry has some good and bad news for Google.
The good: Motorola's Android-powered Droid handset has sold 1.05 million units in its first 74 days on sale, according to Flurry's estimates. That's better than the one million original iPhones that Apple managed to sell in its first 74 days on sale.
The bad news: Flurry claims that in its first 74 days on sale, Google's own Nexus One has shifted just 135,000 units:
The estimates are based on Flurry counting unique devices via its analytics tools, which are used in apps on more than 80% of iPhone and Android devices.
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In its report, Flurry points out that the Droid benefitted from the iPhone effect - by the time it launched two and a half years after the first iPhone, awareness of and anticipation for smartphones was much higher.
Meanwhile, Droid was also launched just before the holiday season, which is traditionally a lucrative time for handset sales.
It's also relevant that the iPhone 3GS reached its first million sales in just three days after it launched in June 2009 - so by that comparison, Apple certainly isn't found wanting.
Even so, the Nexus One figures aren't good. Flurry suggests that it "may go down as a grand, failed experiment or one that ultimately helpes Google learn something that will prove important in years to come".
At this point, I would suggest that sales will pick up once operators start selling the Nexus One.
However, in the UK, Vodafone seems to be focusing its energies more on the HTC Legend - made by the same manufacturer, but with more scope for slapping the Vodafone 360 service on top of Android.
