“Telefonica has received 300,000 pre registrations in the U.K. and Spain to buy Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 3G, a company spokesman said Wednesday,” Jason Sinclair reports for Dow Jones Newswires.
“The spokesman said customers have been reserving units of the popular handset on the company’s Web site since Telefonica announced it would sell the device earlier this month,” Sinclair reports.
“Telefonica will begin selling the 3G iPhone July 11 in Spain, the Czech Republic and twelve Latin American countries,” Sinclair reports.
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The iPhone will never catch on because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.
The Motorola Q starts at $99, it does email, it does music, all in a stylish package.
Thanks for your comment, Steve. You forgot that iPhone is the most expensive phone in the world too.
That’s huge, 300,000 pre-orders!
I didn’t even know you could pre-order the 3G iPhone, so far I have seen only a “Register your interest” page.
http://iphone.o2.co.uk/registeryourinterest/
“To be amongst the first to know when you could be the proud owner of one, please let us have a few of your details.”
Where can I pre-order it?
Well, if Steve Balmer say so, that must be true, is it?
“Would I trade 96% of the market for 4% of the market? I want to have products that appeal to everybody,” he said. “We’ll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”
– Steve “Iron Tongue” Ballmer
unfortunately these are not “pre-orders”. these are just people who leave their email on the above mentioned web-site. these people are INTERESTED in buying the iphone. that is something different than actually buying one. and that is for 2 countries with a population of roughly 100 million people combined and that in 3 weeks. it is not a hugh number. the laughable soul by samsung has sold 1 million in a month allone. as much as i want the iphone 3g being a hugh success i think we should keep our expectations a little lower if we don’t want to be dissapointed. at the moment once again it doesn’t look like a big success in europe because of the outrageous service-plans attached to it.
I think the 3G iPhone with 2.0/Enterprise will be the cause for BB to start losing market share BIG TIME!