Thread: German magazine calculates amount of sold smart phones. ***** Result for N900: approx. 600k sold
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gunni is offline gunni
2010-11-22 , 12:31
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http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m...0.html#ref=rss

For english readers maybe an online translator can help.
A short summary about the article:
English mathematicians calculated the amount of german tanks in WW II by using the serial numbers of captured tanks. They got a good result with this formula.

Now the magazine wants to try this for mobile phones (Link on bottom of the page).

*Edit***************************
They got 11 entries for the N900 and calculate the N900 to be sold about 600000 times:
[german]
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m...0.html#ref=rss
Last edited by gunni; 2010-12-01 at 16:23. Reason: Added result article
 

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