iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million
CUPERTINO, California-June 28, 2010-Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone® 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, and Apple's new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in stunning text, images and video.
"This is the most successful product launch in Apple's history," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply."
iPhone 4 also features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD 720p video recording, Apple's A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time-in a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world.
iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system, which features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple's new iAd mobile advertising platform.
Pricing & Availability
iPhone 4 is available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US)* for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model in both Apple and AT&T's retail and online stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack and Wal-Mart stores. iPhone 4 is also available in the UK, France, Germany and Japan and will be available in an additional 18 countries by the end of July-Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
*Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year AT&T rate plan, sold separately.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OSX, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
Wow!
@SiG
I'm happy for Apple, but I honestly don't like the iPhone 4, it's OS is still behind versatility wise. The UI and Hardware are both great, though.
(if you ignore the glass being brittle and the antennae issues, but the bumper case fixes both of those problems)
@SiG
That's very very impressive! You can afford to be smug now!
But, stop with your one-liner rude responses to real issues! Aside from that, congratulations!
@SiG
Soon AT&T; Will have open air waves - as 1.7 million customers will soon have dropped calls
@SiG
what's important is how many that's gonna be returned.
hah ha
/nelson
[signal_strength_joke]
This numbers shows that people no longer search for practical phones...
They want to be cool.
Toyota sells 100 millions of cars everyday around the world. Should I buy Toyota cars?
I would like to read an Independent source for these kind of Breaking news, not Cupertino advertising using Engadget or are you paid by apple?.
@SiG
I would have said "How?!", but that's just me.
@SiG
Fuckin' a! Way to go, Apple. I hope to see Android numbers reach that someday. But I'd like to think they certainly are catchin' up! Until then, my Evo and I march valiantly.
its Magical Guys.
no one release Device as magical as it is.
@SiG Wow indeed, could be easily 2 millions first week. Impressive.
Ps. Worldwide or US only?
@SiG
I heard the Toyota Corolla is the worlds best selling car of all time.
I still don't want one.
@SiG
Nexus one sells 80k in 3 months the Iphone 4 sells 1.7 million in like 3 days. Not to mention those waiting, like me, for the White Iphone 4.
@Beatnik
erm... in 2009 Toyota sold 7,234,439 cars globally.
@SiG
hey engadget there is still a major design flaw with this project. already forgot about it?
@who said what I'm pretty sure Android fans are becoming more smug than apple fans... "ohhh apple sucks, android is sooo much better than that... they have soooo much reception issues..." Have you seen all the apple hate across Engadget and Gizmodo the last couple weeks? It's becoming HDDVD v Bluray all over again...
@SiG
And once again, the masses ignore the geeks.
@SiG
Apple haters can't say much. Despite the small glitches, people like myself can't buy iPhones because it's all sold out.
I am not worried about the antenna problem because Apple will issue a software fix for it. Plus, its not like you can't fix it now yourself by either holding it properly or buy a bumper.
Keep hating folks because the vast majority of iPhone 4 owners are happy. Oh and it's sold out.
@potretr
they dumped a bunch of numbers into one pile making it meaningless.
@SiG I don't really see it as amazing any more. Just about this many Android devices are activated every week. Apple doesn't sell this many units weekly. These figures are only occur at launches.
@SiG
Lol - WOW - I can't believe how any comment that is even remotely related to the truth about the iPhone's problems are downranked. Keep sweeping it under the carpet, kids... whatever helps you sleep better at night.
@SiG They should pre-manufacture 2 million iPhone 5s next year. I bet all of em will sell out too.
@Why should I have all the fun
Android is the Toyota corolla. Plastic (droid) vs iPhone (stainless steel).
@andyg8180
It's really sad. There's nothing wrong with having a different preference. But calling other people idiots, sheep etc., just because their priorities and preferences are different doesn't make sense at all.
Basically what most of the comments on this post are saying (at least this is how I read it) is that, "hey I bought an android phone! I hate you all because you bought an iPhone. That'd be only about 2 million of you. I'm smart and 2 million of you are fools, who don't know what a good phone is"
Now that really tells me who's smug!
@wtfapple
They're just reporting the sales numbers so why would they talk about the issues for the 1000th time?
@SiG
That was my reaction. In knew it was going to be high but damn!
@man
I think is whole antenna thing has been overblown. The real question is whether there are real reception issues. I was trying to reproduce this signal loss thing on my iPhone 4 and I couldn't get it to work until I put water on my hands, and even then, it didn't drop any calls, I just lost bars. I have a friend with an iPhone 4 and he has the same experience. No droppped calls. It's probably a software problem. The software detects attenuation or interference and responds by dialing down your bars, but you don't actually lose reception.
But hey, you sell a 1 million phones in a day and you're going to have some issues, and on the internet, those issues get magnified by a factor of ten. So you have something that in a normal setting, no one would notice, becoming an issue because someone did a demo of it on the internet.
My two cents.
@SiG
I'm worried about people's feet. I think everyone should get new shoes with an iPhone purchase. All that broken glass from dropped iPhones could be harmful.
J/k no one ever drops their cell phone. It's an urban myth.
@Beatnik @Beatnik Toyota don't sell that many cars a year, research before you post, also regarding Apple, if someone told you that water is wet, then you would argue that point.
@SiG 3 days is 3 days. Don't count it till Sunday, or it's called scamming.
@Peter Church
There are no signal loss issues. If you're seeing signal loss, then you're looking at it the wrong way.
@Beatnik
Apparently Toyota sell 36.5 BILLION cars annually...
If you're going to pull a number out your arse at least go the full distance.
engadget needs a vuvuzela button like on youtube
@okok only Apple Fanboys bought i
That's the Fanroids usual response. It's the consumers fault! Great logic there ( typical)
@Parody
@Parody
Is the glass really brittle though, in conparison to other glass used for phones? A quick search on YouTube can show you broken models (from a drop) of every recently released phone. You can see users of Driods, N1's, EVO's and IPhones taking keys, nails, and other objects and being unable to scratch their phone. All these phones have scratch resistant, but relatively easily breakable screens.
You can either have hardness, or shatter resistance. Personally, I care about scratch resistance, so I would always prefer a harder glass screen to one that won't shatter on a fall. 10 years of mobile phone ownership has shown me that I simply don't drop them.
@SiG
First week sales number:
iPhone 3G : 1 million (Launch in 25 countries)
iPhone 3GS : more than 1 million (8 countries)
iPhone 4 : 1.7 million (5 countries)
...
Sure the apple name helps push the sale, but also Good design, app store, nice looking and fluid UI. Competition needs to realize that.
iPhone 4 design with xenon flash + dual led + carl zeiss optics + symbian power underneath webOS interface + app store + xbox live integration + native ms office support + Google navigation + OTA sync + Sony Ericsson stereo speaker + a 300PPI samsung S-Amoled + a free bumper :) = Win
this ultimate smartphone will sell 10millions first day launch, for sure ;-).
@Blaque14K
Sure, just about that many Android devices out of how many different models on how many different carriers? Show me a single Android model that has done this? There's a difference between being backordered because they can't keep them on the shelves and being backordered because the parts suppliers can't supply screens.
The iSheep are apparently letting themselves be heard with their wallets and not with their fingers on a tech blog.
@NextGen Unbelievably fantastic marketing strategy helps bringing these sales figures...Apple is def the best out there and I'm really sure that he could go marketing whatever he wants to. I love the iPhone but no one within marketing argues with that...
Android fanboys: iPhone users choose the iPhone for a variety of reasons -- mine being that it provides an incredible amount of mobile computing power with the slickest, most polished interface. We don't care that a particular Android model can do X, Y, or Z that the iPhone can't. Just because so many people like the phone does not make them stupid, sheep, or ignorant about technology. Enjoy your phones (Android is a great OS as well), and stop trying to convince us you've made a superior choice.
@Peter Church There is good old physics involved when you touch an antenna that it looses efficiency. The only thing the software does is render the signal loss to the screen. If you have a strong signal and are close to the cell and maybe depeding on the type of network you're on, the loss will not be as significant. The only software fix possible would be to have the software detect the drop in signal strength and then boost it massively, draining the battery faster. The antenna needs to be physically separated from the flesh of the finger, simple as that.
If can hold your phone the wrong way, they blew it.
My 2 ¢..
@ElCid
I called this last week.
I predicted that they would sell 2 million in 4 days
I FEEL SO SPECIAL
@Hobsie 36.5 billion cars?! Billion?!! That's five times the population of the Earth.Who's an arse here?
@SiG
Visit Fake Steve Jobs for an insightful read:
http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/there-is-no-spoon.html
Oh and + BB services for the ultimate smartphone.
@NextGen Sony Ericsson camera (cybershot) as well as the Carl Zeiss Optics, they are by far the best cameras in phones. My old 3.2MP from 5 years ago is still better than stuff like the iPhone 4.
@ElCid Engadget, please report how many Rubber Bumpers they sold on lunch day. I heard it was also sold out right? I wonder why.
@BerkleyBerkley2011 That's why skype + wifi is for
@barac What's not practical about an iPhone? It has every ounce of functionality as any other phone. Just because the UI is streamlined doesn't mean it's not functional. In fact, that makes it more functional.
@ElCid
I think you missed my point about my hand having to be wet to reproduce the issue. How many people do you think this will be an issue? So, in other words, you can reproduce the conditions, but it's really hard and even when you do manage to do it, you don't drop calls, so I can't really see this being the problem all the Android Fanboys seem to think it is.
@SiG
Congratulations to Steve & Co. indeed!
I held out for white iphone as I am sure a lot of folks did too; glad now as I'd like to see Apple's response to antenna issue first (and no, giving out free bumpers is not a good enough response imo).
On a side note, I have been seeing reception issues on my 3G too ever since I upgraded to iOS4. Could this possibly be a software only issue? I certainly hope so.