I don’t know whether selling 10,000 units of a cell phone model within 24 hours in Germany breaks any records but it’s a damn high number. It’s a far cry from the U.S. launch, and the cues are fairly docile. England’s result will come tomorrow. The iPhone sold 270,000 units in the first 30 hours and rumors have it pegged at half a million within the same time period.
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November 10th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Matter of fact, that means one in every 8000 Germans now has an iPhone, after one day of availability, with an contract that is outrageously expensive compared to the service plans usually offered with basically free mobile phones (as in subsidized and sold for one Euro) in this country, and from a provider that is relatively unbeloved (we don’t really like our Deutsche Telekom over here …) as compared to vodafone.
It would surprise me if more than 100k iPhones were ever sold in Germany at all given these circumstances.
November 11th, 2007 at 12:19 am
We gave to pay 2350$ for an iPhone. That’s crazy…
November 12th, 2007 at 10:56 am
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November 13th, 2007 at 8:20 am
First of all, 10.000 iPhones were sold in the first 8 hours. Stores opened at 9 a.m. the press release with this number came out at 5 p.m. Given the circumstances Martin described I think this is a fairly good number. You can see how excited T-Mobile was by sending out the press release so fast.
@hobo: I don’t get these price charts. The iPhone is the first phone ever, where the TCO is calculated. Consider buying a N95 with a 2 year contract that has the same benefits would cost the same price.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:36 am
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