iPhone 3G tops original iPhone sales in only seven weeks
August 27th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Against all odds, the iPhone 3G has managed to achieve something in seven weeks what the original iPhone took almost a year to do — sell six million units. According to TechCrunch, sometime next week, Apple will sell its iPhone 3G number six million in some part of the world. Apple is now on track to sell 40 million iPhone 3Gs over the next year.
Unlike the original iPhone, which remained exclusive to the US for many months and then a handful of European countries, the iPhone 3G is already available in over 40 countries and the number will swell up to 70 before the end of this year. Mind you, the iPhone 3G is not yet available in Russia, which is expected to be one of the biggest markets for the device, after the US.
Meanwhile, in India, the iPhone 3G sales are yet to pick up on either carrier (Airtel and Vodafone) amidst media reports about the ‘flaws’ in the device and its high price. But that’s another story.
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T-Mobile said to have sold 120 000 iPhone 3G so far
August 25th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Deutsche Telekom’s wireless business T-Mobile has sold more than 120,000 new 3G iPhones since its sales launch on July 11 despite distribution problems, its chief executive told a German weekly magazine.
Hamid Akhavan told Focus, delivery problems that left customers waiting for weeks to get their hands on the new, faster version of the iPhone had been solved and that the backlog would be cleared by the end of the month.
“Our (sales) expectations were surpassed,” Akhavan said in an interview to be published on Monday, adding the carrier had sold 75,000 iPhones in Germany alone.
Akahavan said distribution had hit a snag as Apple had decided to launch the iPhone in 22 countries at the same time.
The latest iPhone from Apple Inc has faster, third-generation (3G) Web connections when compared with the first iPhone that was launched in mid-2007.
But users around the world have complained about dropped calls and inconsistent Internet speeds, with the phone often reverting to a slower technology known as Edge even in 3G areas.
Last week, Apple Inc issued a software update to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from customers.
T-Mobile, which also sells the iPhone in the Netherlands and in Austria, received complaints from Dutch customers but none from German and Austrian ones, Akhavan said.
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Apple sold three million iPhone 3Gs in the first month and promises to sell 10 million within a year
August 11th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Apple has already sold three million iPhone 3Gs in less than a month since the product shipped - and there’s no sign yet of momentum slowing down, an analyst claims.
Telecoms analyst Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative made the claims in chat with CNN. A former T-Mobile executive, the media outlet says he has been “extremely accurate with wireless predictions in the past.” Michael went on to say if that demand keeps going up thanks to the iPhone 3Gs price point, consumer enthusiasm, and international sales:
They are seeing unprecedented demand. The demand is so strong it may impact or delay the new countries coming on.
Apple - being Apple - refused to comment on Cote’s claims that the computer-cum-iPod-cum-iPhone-cum-pro software and education solutions company is seeing “unprecedented demand”.
The three million figure is much higher than Wall Street analysts had anticipated, CNN informs. Many analysts had simply expected quarterly sales of up to four million…not monthly sales of three million…
Apple had promised to sell 10 million iPhones within a year. And they have the capacity to produce 40 million iPhones a year! So the big question, how many are they really going to sell in a year?
Three days after the new iPhone’s July 11 debut, Apple announced that it had sold 1 million iPhones.
Cote believes demand may ultimately fully outstrip supply, particularly as the device ships in new markets. “The demand is so strong it may impact or delay the new countries coming on,” he said.
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