IPhones ‘all but sold out’ first shipment
CUPERTINO, Calif., Jul 3, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) — Apple Inc.’s new iPhone multimedia and Web-enabled cell phone has “all but sold out” its initial shipment, Apple and AT&T Inc. say.
Neither Apple nor AT&T, which has an exclusive multiyear contract to provide iPhone cell-phone service, would disclose sales figures.
But telecom analysts estimated 500,000 to 700,000 devices totaling $250 million were sold by Sunday after three days of sales, USA Today reported.
A number of customers were not able to transfer their old cell phone numbers to AT&T during the weekend, various media and blogs reported.
And some AT&T customers said their existing cell phones had been deactivated while they were still waiting for their iPhones to be activated, leaving them without a working phone.
AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said those problems had been addressed and were “substantially behind us,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Apple has a Web page () that lets consumers type in their ZIP code to determine — after 9 p.m. local time — where to find an available iPhone the next day.