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Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: Apple sells over 1
million iPhone 4S handsets in first 24 hours via BGR: The Three Biggest
Letters In Tech by Jonathan S. Geller on 10/10/11
Apple has confirmed that the company has sold a mind-numbing number of
iPhone 4S devices in pre-orders, over one million of them. The previous
record was from last year's iPhone 4 launch which totaled over 600,000
in one day. Apple had a larger amount of global carrier partners for
this year's launch, including Verizon and Sprint in the U.S., but that
doesn't take away from how incredibly impressive this is. Apple's
Apple's press release is after the break.
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
CUPERTINO, California—October 10, 2011—Apple® today announced
pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day,
surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by
iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with
incredible new features including Apple's dual-core A5 chip for blazing
fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced
optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an
intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.
"We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,"
said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide
Product Marketing. "The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been
the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are
thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do."
iPhone 4S will be available at all 245 Apple retail stores in the US
beginning at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, October 14. Every customer
who buys an iPhone 4S at an Apple retail store will be offered free
Personal Setup service, helping them customize their iPhone 4S by
setting up email, showing them new apps from the App Store™ and more,
so they'll be up and running with their new iPhone before they leave
the store.
iPhone 4S includes iOS 5, the world's most advanced mobile operating
system with over 200 new features, and iCloud®, a breakthrough set of
free cloud services that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad®, iPod
touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content
in iCloud and push it to all your devices.
Pricing & Availability
iPhone 4S comes in either black or white and will be available in the
US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and
$299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the new 64GB model.*
iPhone 4S will be available from the Apple Online Store, Apple's retail
stores and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and select Best Buy,
Target and Walmart stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone
4 is available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 3GS is available for free
with a two year contract.
iPhone 4S will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries by the end of
October including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
*Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year rate plan, sold
separately.
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