Sprint began selling iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 in Sprint retail stores nationwide this morning at 8:00am local time.
Sprint is the only U.S. carrier to offer new and existing customers the iPhone experience with unlimited data plans starting at just $79.99 per month.
Fared Adib, Sprint Product Chief, issued the following statement:
Sprint today reported its best ever day of sales in retail, web and telesales for a device family in Sprint history with the launch of iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. We reached this milestone at approximately noon CT/1pm ET. The response to this device by current and new customers has surpassed our expectations and validates our customers’ desire for a truly unlimited data pricing plan.
Source: Sprint Nextel
MacDailyNews Take: Best ever day of sales by noon.
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Finally some hope for Sprint! 🙂
That many fewer Droid to clog up the airways!
Can u imagine what the sales would have been like, if they had called the thing 5?
Yes, sales would break records if customers came in and said, “I want to buy 5” !!!
You don’t have to imagine it. Just wait for next year. 🙂
Ok, I’ll imagine next year …
I’d imagine it’d be as many as Apple could manufacture and make available for the launch–in other words just as many as iPhone 4S sold during the launch, if not less (manufacturing a newer design can be constrictive in the early run).
And to think they were calling Sprint’s agreement to sell so many iPhones over the next 4 years “gambling” with Sprint’s future.
They’ll sell that many long before the 4 years are over.
Too bad the iPhone 4s announcement was such a disappointment
Lord help Apple’s supply inventory when the next iPhone isn’t a disappointment. Consumers buying iPhones don’t give a damn about what tech-head critics say. They probably never even heard those early critical reviews. The consumers obviously don’t even care that it looks the same as the last version iPhone 4 since they like the design. They don’t seem to be all that concerned about the 3.5″ screen size either. Most consumers just don’t think like tech-heads. Never did, never will. Apple knows.
A disappointment only to those who can only see as far as the casing, and can’t then stand in a bar waving their whizzy new acquisition around hoping the less fortunate will gaze upon him and weep quietly at their sad, iPhone 5-less existence. Those of us who are actually concerned with how the devise works, and how well it works, couldn’t give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks.
But google activates 500,000 devices per day… Meaningless.
You fandroids keep looking at your iPhone clones while we keep enjoying the real thing 🙂
Sent from my iPhone
What’s odd is that despite excellent first day sales, Sprint stock barely moved and so many critics think that Sprint threw away $20 billion on the iPhone. I don’t quite understand why. The iPhone has always seemed to help carriers make money, so I don’t know why Sprint should be an exception. I don’t even consider it a gamble despite offering a lot of money up front. Maybe there are things I’m missing, such as Sprint’s infrastructure may need serious upgrading to support so many iPhones and the constant upgrading to keep the network from dropping calls might keep them in debt.
The stock market today has. No reflection on the value of a company , just how stock manipulators can shack it to make a quick buck.
.”Build Her, they will come”. People are gonna know about Siri next week and she will be doing all the talking. It’s going to be crazy.
Imagine if Apple had added Verizon and Sprint in 2007 or 08 or even 2009 instead of 2011, there probably wouldn’t even be Android
Not looking forward to 2013 when people start whinging about the iPhone 5S. “…but I wanted an iPhone 6!”
“The response to this device by current and new customers has surpassed our expectations”
So, you’re telling me that you have very low expectations of your customers?