Broadpoint AmTech Analyst Mark McKechnie estimates that 100,000 Motorola DROID phones were sold on the launch weekend. According to Mark, Verizon had 200,000 DROID phone on hand, and most stores sold at least half of their stock. He says by end of 2009 Motorola will sell 1 million Google Android based phones and the number will reach 10 million in 2010.

“I see the first few days as encouraging,” McKechnie said. “There seems to be pretty good demand – they’ve taken the right steps and picked a good partner with Google on the Android side.”

Most analyst agree that Motorola DROID launch was pale in comparison to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS launches. Over one million iPhones were sold on both launch weekends, which is 10 times more than the estimated number for DROID. However, when compared to Palm Pre launch in June this year, Motorola DROID launch looks like a success. As only 60,000 Palm Pre handsets were sold on the launch weekend.
[Via Bloomberg]