“Apple stores got the longest lines as the new iPhone model launched Friday, but there were lines at Sprint stores too, as the carrier got a chance to sell the phone more than four years after the first model was launched,” Peter Svensson reports for The Associated Press.
“Product chief Fared Adib said that by midday, the iPhone had broken Sprint’s record for first-day sales of any phone,” Svensson reports. “Sales were above the company’s expectations, he said, without giving any figures.”
“Sprint Nextel Corp. joined bigger carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless as a seller of the phone. Spot checks in Philadelphia and San Francisco showed that the lines outside Sprint stores were longer than at its rivals,” Svensson reports. “Meanwhile, a representative for AT&T said that as of 4:30 EDT, it had activated a record number of iPhones and was on track to double its previous single-day record for activations.”
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