AT&T Says iPhone 5 Fastest Selling iPhone It Has Ever Offered

Posted by iPhoneHacks on Sep 17, 2012 | Comments (5)

AT&T has said that it has set a new sales record with Apple’s new iPhone 5 pre-orders over the weekend, making it the fastest selling iPhone the company has ever offered, according to report on Reuters.

This doesn’t come as a major surprise as Apple had said that it was completely blown away by customer response to iPhone 5 on Friday.

AT&T did not reveal the number of iPhone 5s sold. We expect Apple and its carrier partners to announce the numbers next week, after the launch weekend. AT&T had activated 1 million iPhone 4S over the launch weekend last year.

iPhone 5 goes on sale in US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK on Friday, September 21.

Apple started taking iPhone 5 pre-orders on Friday and sold out it’s iPhone 5 stock for launch day delivery in less than an hour and is now quoting delivery estimates of 2-3 weeks currently.

Delivery estimates for new iPhone 5 pre-orders have slipped by a week on Verizon and AT&T is quoting shipping estimates of 14-21 business days.

Apple has already started shipping iPhone 5 to customers for the launch day.

Customers who haven’t pre-ordered the iPhone 5 will be able to pick one up at Apple’s retail stores as well as from AT&T, Sprint and Verizon retail stores or resellers like Walmart, Target, Radio Shack.

[via Reuters]

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  • Alan

    It looks like there are enough folks not disappointed with iPhone 5.

  • AT&T Rapes Me

    Just goes to show she’s still sexy as ever!

  • BoatBoy

    Why doesn’t anybody notice that the iPhone 5 is for sale in more countries? The 4S went on sale in US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK (7 countries), The iPhone 5 went on sale in US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK (9 countries). They added Hong Kong and Singapore. Apple knows that pinned up demand helps hype and sales. Long lines at the stores makes people “think” they need it as why else would so many line up?

    Am I the only one to notice that each launch adds more countries on the first date? How do people not see this and know why they are adding in more initial countries? It is all marketing or they would roll it out in less countries and fill the demand in each before opening up the next.

    • @BoatBoy

      The story is about AT&T sales, not Apple sales.

  • elko22

    I will keep buying iPhone till someone make better original phone not a copy and I don’t care what name and brand gona be of that phone