iPhone released, and sells 525,000 sets in Three Days
- Posted by -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=- on July 5th, 2007 filed in Technology
The Apple iPhone, the must-buy, must-get gadget, has just been released in the United States in the beggining of this week. In fact, it’s so popular, 525,000 sets have been sold in just a matter of three days.
Why is the iPhone so popular, you might wonder, when it runs on a 2.5G GSM network. The answer is simple. The iPhone functions as a phone, a mobile Internet device and as an iPod. It also runs on MacOSX, the world’s second most favourite Operating System that is known for it’s Eye-Candy.
As the months progressed, the iPhone hype mushroomed even further even though the iPhone lacked a user-replaceable battery, physical keyboard, expansion slot, voice dialing, A2DP, MMS, iChat, flash support, copy and paste ability and video recording — not to mention that the iPhone was only sold by the sole service provider, AT&T.
It appears that Apple was selling around 525,000 iPhones from 6:00 PM Friday evening through close of business on Sunday. Nearly all of AT&T’s stores were depleted of iPhone stock by Saturday whereas Apple’s retail stores are currently faring much better.
However, Apple’s iPhone launch didn’t go off glitch free, however. Many users complained of activation problems with iPhone. The iPhone can be activated through iTunes and the steady rush of users scrambling to activate their phones overloaded AT&T’s servers.
The Apple iPhone will be sold in Asia and Europe in later this year and next year, respectively. Most Netizens are still wondering whether the Asian and European sets will be an upgraded version. So, what do you think? Will it be 3.5G? I hope it is, or else, let’s just stick to the Sony Playstation Phone.
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