The smartphone market may still be shaking from the Android 2.1-powered bombshell that was the Nexus One announcement a month ago, but you wouldn’t think it by looking at the sales figures for Google’s “superphone”. Apparently, just 80,000 handsets have made their way to US consumers’ hands in its first month on sale…

According to web analytics firm Flurry, just 80,000 Nexus Ones have been sold so far – that compares with the 600,000 US consumers who snapped up an iPhone when it first went on sale, or the 525,000 who handed over the readies for a Motorola Droid (or Mororola Milestone as it’s known here).

To put it in a UK context, Vodafone managed to shift 50,000 iPhones on its first day selling Apple’s touchscreen wonder, and had hit 100,000 sold by the end of the next week.

Some of the reasons being suggested for the Nexus One’s poor sales figures include the fact that it was a “soft” launch in marketing terms, with very little advertising or build-up to the launch event itself, and the fact that Google is selling the phone itself, rather than through a network partner.

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