Apple today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will go on sale in France on July 17.
“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”
The new iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone plus 3G networking that is twice as fast, built-in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs over 800 third party applications available through the new App Store. In the US, the new iPhone 3G is priced at just $199 for the 8GB model, and $299 for the 16GB model.
More about Apple’s iPhone 3G here.
@Radius
I am with you. The incessant whining is driving me crazy. This was a major rollout and there were bound to be problems on the first day. Coordinating the rollout of both hardware and software at this scale is a massive undertaking, beyond anyone’s comprehension.
I know, because I have been involved in global rollouts. Stupid little things can trip you up, like the problem we had in our Austrailia and Korea offices. In Australia, we forgot to set the system preferences to Australian English. You should have heard them whine. In Korea, we had a bit more technical problem with the Office documents stored in Hongul. It was bug in two different Office version stored double byte characters. The Koreans were a lot more polite about the delays.
That almost beat Nokia’s sales for the weekend.
Except Nokia will sell another million every few days for the rest of the year. Will Apple match that?
I bet Nokia and Blackberry wished their servers would get bogged down like that.
But Nokia will make $10 profit on three quarters of the phones they sell. Its like Apple not selling $500 PCs there is no profit in it.
@jo jo
“I remember when they built computers and they used to cater to computers users…”
Don’t you realize that the iPhone IS a computer — arguably the most significant new computer since the Mac was introduced in 1984.
@Toxteth O’Grady
Don’t you hold the world’s record for producing the world’s largest bogie?
Yeah, but now many got activated?
This is EXACTLY the same as MS saying x number of copies of Vista have been sold, even though the vast majority weren’t really being used.
Come on Steve, get your MobieMe and your iPhone infrastructure working for everyone!
Yes, BSOD. Westerners have become (perhaps always have been) self centered whiners, thinking only of things that benefit themselves and whining endlessly about everything being too hot or too cold or too slow or too fast.
On a forum like this, expect to be mocked mercilessly for even mentioning humility or forbearance.
The best is yet to come: Election time.
Having rejected the best political candidates they’re stuck with the moral fence sitters. They’ll elect one as president and spend the next 4 years whining about him.
Went to a local ATT store a week ahead for preapproval. They were not a corporate owned store and would not be getting any iPhones. Went to the downtown, corporate owned, store and they preapproved me. On Friday I arrived at about 10:30 to a store packed with sales people, but sold out of their 150 iPhones.
Saturday I got up very early and was number 10 in line at the local Apple store in the U District. They had not sold out on Friday and had all but black 16 gig models.
The young woman, Ashley, who helped me was fantastic. We had to call ATT and get me out of the preapproved and discounted status and then activate me with a new number. I have my first iPhone.
ATT seems to be getting the short end of the stick when it comes to supply of iPhones. Only corporate owned stores and for them only limited numbers of phones.
Yes Christian.
Actually, that’s the world’s stickiest bogie.
And I hold the record for the most marshmallows stuffed up one nostril.
I wonder if they counted my 16GB model that I ordered (and paid for) at the AT&T;store after they had run out of stock… It is supposed to be in sometime this week. Anyone else get their back-ordered unit from an AT&T;store yet?
You talk of ‘Westerners’ in a very generic manner and then assign them all to a country which elects a president for 4 years.
Please stop hiding behind your ‘political correctness’ bullshit and start by calling a spade a spade. I’m assuming that you intended to take your dump on what you feel is only an American attitude.
Please clarify your position.
both stores ran out here as well 🙁
I’m very happy for Apple (and my AAPL’s future). Silver lining: all these problems are what sales people call “good” problems. Assuming Apple solves them fast, of course.
As for me, the iPhone is expected to be available in Singapore in September. But all this reports of firmware issues, crashing apps, frozen iPhones, etc are kinda making me worried. The more i read these reports, the more i’m thinking i shld probably wait a little closer to Christmas and let Apple settle things nicely and properly. Who knows, maybe they’ll even have a 32GB iPhone by then. But that white iPhone 3G is really looking nicer by the day.
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Lots of my iPod touch 2.0 seem sluggish, particularly Safari. Safari also crashes more than previously when viewing the same web sites. Touch screen response is more flaky and slower to respond. I don’t do a lot of mail from it but I do a lot of surfing.
Also, when you click a link that pops to a new window, closing that new window and going back to the previous window more often now requires a reload of that previous web page. Previously it would have to reload that previous web page about 50-70% of the time. Now it seems more like 80% of the time.
Funny thing (not so funny at the time): I was typing feedback on Apple’s website regarding the iPod touch and was just about finished typing it (the feedback was about the web page reloading I mentioned above) and Safari crashed. Talk about irritated. I went upstairs and typed it back up on my MBP.
@JB:
My typing has a delay once in a while. It’s not consistant though. Its mostly user name/ passwords that lag. Most things seem faster though, especially connecting to Wifi. My Mail is really snappy now.
I think it has to do with typing things that will be stored, or when the system is looking in your contacts, etc. While you are typing?
iPHONE, BITCH!!!
I’m also experiencing sluggishness, especially pressing the home button.
Simply amazing. 10 million in 2008 is looking like a cake walk… I guess it helps to go worldwide, doesn’t it (you doubters out there)?
Regarding iPhone’s success, I don’t own one yet and am going to look into AT&T;’s pricing packages for one iPhone plus one non-iPhone, since my wife has no interest in one at all, preferring a basic phone that just makes calls and retrieves voice mail. I’m looking forward to getting out of Sprint Hell, soon, though. And being a long-time fan of Apple and their products since the dark days of the early and mid-nineties, this is amazing stuff. They are finally achieving the level of ubiquity they deserve, albeit gradually. These are good times, folks. Good times.
@Toxteth
I own just three episodes and “Bambi” happens to be one of them. Brilliant stuff. Monty Python on crank. Great choice of a handle.
Of course Rik is the world’s biggest bottom burp. Priceless.
I’m just waiting for the next gen PrePay version to also get my iPhone… I’m one of the next one and a half billion people that only hold back till PrePay and country-compagny sim exchange will be easy to avoid roaming taxes.
@JB et al:
I read that there is a firmware update for iPhone 2.0 software, but the only way to install it is to do a restore via iTunes. The update apparently fixes the yellowish screen tint on the 3G iPhones, but also helped fix some software crashes people were experiencing. The author was not sure whether the software fixes were due to changes in the update or simply the restore process. You might try that to see if it fixes your problem.
@bizlaw
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The thing is now cleared: not the 3G is “yellowish”, but the V1 iPhone was TOO “blueish”…
@ BobM
yes, I know the at&tPhone;is a computer. It has a CPUS and RAMS and TRONS inside it and everything …. I even heard that it can blink too.
The point is that their focus has shifted away from their base, towards consumer electronics and phones, and they have allied themselves with AT&T;, a corporation with which I choose not to do business.
Does this mean that users of the future will have to sign a belligerent 2 year contract with an obtuse telecom just to have a computer?
These are sales of the Phone to retail outlets aren’t they? They didn’t atcually sell 1 million iPhones to customers in the first weekend.
A little bit of critical thinking when reading MDN would be a good idea people.