RUMOR: 550,000 online Verizon iPhone 4 pre-orders; 30% of buyers upgrading from Android

15 years ago

“We have been told that online pre-orders between Verizon and Apple amounted to around 550,000 units,” Jonathan S. Geller reports for BGR.

“We also have some statistics on who’s buying Verizon iPhones to share with you: 30% of people buying Verizon iPhones were Android users, just over 25% of people buying iPhone 4 were BlackBerry users, and only 14% of people buying the Verizon iPhone were AT&T iPhone owners,” Geller reports. “The remaining percent didn’t want to say, didn’t have a smartphone, or didn’t have a phone prior to making their iPhone 4 purchases last week.”

Read more in the full article, in which Geller also claims iPhone launch sales “are performing a little under what Apple and Verizon anticipated,” here.

MacDailyNews Take: Please note that the numbers discussed above are rumored figures. Verizon iPhone 4 launch rumor numbers have been as high as 1 million and as low as 100,000; in short, they’re all over the map, so take them all with at least a grain of salt.

UPDATE: 1:20pm ET: Lalit Sharma reports for TechzTalk, “BGR claims Verizon iPhone sales are disappointing, but simple calculation[s] show they are actually excellent numbers.”

“On average, five Apple stores are selling 798 Verizon iPhones per day, that’s 160 Verizon iPhones per day per store. Apple has 236 stores in US, so Apple stores alone are selling 37,760 Verizon iPhone per day. This doesn’t include Apple online sales and iPhone sold at Verizon stores,” Sharma reports. “Around 550,000 Verizon iPhones were pre-ordered, and if we consider just the Apple store sales plus the pre-orders, Apple would sell one million Verizon iPhones in 11 days. That’s 6 times faster than Motorola Droid sales on Verizon, which took over 2 months to reach one million mark after launch. And remember we are not including Verizon iPhone sales through thouands of Verizon stores, Best Buy stores, Walmart and Online Stores.”