Hello !
I was discussing with a friend about how I’m happy with my FP2, when he asked me how many Fairphone devices (FP1 + FP2) were sold since the beginning of the project…
I looked on the search engine and found old statistics:
May 2016: 100.000 owners : 60.000 FP1 and 40.000 pre-ordered FP2
February 2017: 125.000 modular phones sold (Edit: FP1+FP2)
Both I edited the title accordingly !
As the fairphone shop is sold-out (new batch coming in March) I assume the number of produced and sold devices is similar…
A combined total of 135000 Fairphone owners (60 000 FP1 + 75000 FP2) was confirmed in September 2017, as @paulakreuzer suggested. Cannot link to a public source though.
So from the numbers we got we can assume that about 3000 FP2s are sold a month if everything goes well. We also know everything didn’t go well the past months and private customers still can’t order phones atm.
PS: Now if we were to assume that the relation between Sailfish and Ubuntu installs is somehow similar to what this poll suggests (which it’s probably not - but anyway), then the comparison between the OSes would look something like that:
Unlike UbuntuTouch, the Sailfish port is not yet adapted to the Android6 base, for the new screen compatibility (mal is working on it). So in my opinion you can put a constant value for SFOS since the new screen release (mid '17)
But it seems the Fairphone is not available without (already having) a T-Mobile tariff contract, and customers living in Austria would have to buy the phone at a different dealer outside Austria if they want to get it without (an additional) tariff rate.
You can also get some number estimates from phone-specific apps in the Play Store, but it discounts people who don’t use these such as microG and LOS users.