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Over four million iPhone 4S units sold during first weekend
By Charles Starrett
Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Monday, October 17, 2011
News Category: Apple, iPhone
Apple this morning announced that the iPhone 4S saw sales of over four million units over the launch weekend. In the announcement, it also revealed that over 25 million customers have updated their iOS devices to iOS 5, and more than 20 million have signed up for iCloud. The iPhone 4S is available now in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK, and will launch in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland on October 28.
“iPhone 4S is off to a great start with more than four million sold in its first weekend—the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “iPhone 4S is a hit with customers around the world, and together with iOS 5 and iCloud, is the best iPhone ever.”
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So, 4 million PLUS iPhone 4s sold so far, with rumours that iPhone 5 due for release in spring 2012. How many of those 4 million customers are gonna be totally pi*~ed if this happens? I for one! my 3Gs was in dire need of upgrading and there was no way I could hold out for another six months. Lets hope that carriers offer 4s owners special upgrade rates or there are gonna be a lot of unhappy people out there!
Posted by Chris Prosser on October 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM (PDT)