Sales of Japan's First Pocket PC Phone an Astounding Success
If sales are anything to go by then Japan's first Pocket PC Phone - the W-ZERO3 from Sharp - can only be described as an absolutely astounding success.
Stores started taking orders on December 9th for delivery on 14th, but unless you had an order in by midday on the 9th you were out of luck. The complete inventory nationwide sold out in literally a couple of hours.
At BIC Camera's flagship store there was a line of more than 200 people by the time doors opened!
Both the Willcom (carrier) site and the Sharp site sold out in hours. A few days later Willcom started taking requests but was forced to move to a lottery system to decide which lucky punter would get the right to buy one of the much sought after devices. At the current time Tokyo is completely out of stock with no cofirmed next delivery date and it seems there's many people just waiting in line to get there hands on what is for Japan, a revolutionary phone.
A big vote of confidence for Microsoft and Pocket PC phones. We want to see more! And when will we see the first Windows Mobile Smartphone ???
