“After years of rumor and speculation, the Verizon iPhone is finally on sale to the general public,” David Goldman and Laurie Segall report for CNNMoney. “Verizon and Apple stores across the country opened their doors at 7 a.m. local time to sell the iPhone 4, which for the first time is available on a U.S. wireless network not named AT&T”
“In contrast to the lines of thousands that turned out in June for the iPhone 4’s release, the Verizon iPhone got off to a quieter start,” Goldman and Segall report. “The line of waiting buyers held just eight people 15 minutes before it went on sale at Apple’s flagship New York City store near Central Park. ‘I’m not happy with my [Motorola] Droid,’ said Robert Baneky, a Verizon customer who had been on line since 5:45 a.m.”
Goldman and Segall report, “At a nearby Verizon Wireless store, a queue of about a dozen buyers held a few ready to trade in their existing AT&T iPhones. The first buyer in line, Lauren Asther, 19, was ready for a new carrier: ‘I have the AT&T phone, and it kept dropping calls,’ she said… The iPhone went on sale online last week exclusively to existing Verizon customers, and the carrier sold out its stock in just 13 hours. Early estimates from Ticonderoga Securities suggest Apple sold between 700,000 and 1 million Verizon iPhones last week.”
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