As promised during October ’s iPhone 4S press effect , Apple has now flourish its newest smartphone ’s global range . On Friday , the iPhone 4S become on sales event in 22 additional countries , contribute the gimmick ’s sum to 29 rural area around the world , with more to hail .
The newest countries are Austria , Belgium , the Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Mexico , the Netherlands , Norway , Singapore , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , and Switzerland . They join the ranks of the U.S. , UK , Germany , France , Australia , Canada , and Japan , which began selling the iPhone 4S two weeks ago .
Sales of the twist have thus far been strong ; Apple saidit sold 4 million phones in the first three days of its accessibility . customer pre - ordered more than 1 million devices , the highest figure ever recorded for an iPhone exemplar .
In the U.S. , part of that success is no doubt bolstered by the fact that the iPhone 4S is the first version of the gadget to launchsimultaneously on three domesticated carrier : AT&T , Verizon , and Sprint . AT&T said it activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S units , which set a track record for its iPhone launches . Sprint did n’t allow exact act , butsaid in its third - quarter resultsthat the iPhone 4S passing “ resulted in Sprint ’s secure ever Clarence Day of sales in retail , web and telesales for a twist family in Sprint chronicle . ” Verizon did n’t provide numbers in its own fiscal solvent , only saying that requirement for the newfangled phone was potent . A fourth partner , the regional carrier C Spire Wireless , isdue to accede the fray shortlyas well .
Apple ’s gross revenue mentality is , unsurprisingly , affirmative , but CEO Tim Cook take matter a step further during the company ’s fiscal group discussion call in the beginning this calendar month , saying “ we are very convinced that we will set an all - clock time record in the December after part for iPhone sale . ” For a society that unremarkably take conservatively , Cook ’s say-so — which he said not once , but twice — lends it the exercising weight of a certain thing .
And it ’s easy to see where the conclusion amount from . For one thing , there are the positive numbers already reported . For another , during the company ’s launch of the iPhone 4S earlier this calendar month , Apple older vice president Phil Schiller enunciate that the company plans to have the gimmick deal in more than 70 countries , with more than 100 carrier partners , by the end of the twelvemonth . It is , Schiller allege , the fastest iPhone rollout ever — and likely , the companionship ’s most profitable as well .
