Analyst: about 700,000 iPhone 3Gs sold in July
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 7, 2008 at 5:30pm
The iPhone 3G likely sold up to 700,000 units in the few weeks of July alone, Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research, told BusinessWeek. Apple sold about 1.1 million iPhones in all of the third calendar quarter of last year.
So far, many of the new model’s purchasers have been existing AT&T subscribers who already own an iPhone, the article adds. In a survey of more than 100 iPhone 3G buyers conducted in the past two weeks, Chowdhry found that “most of the users are people who are upgrading.”
A survey of 328 users that UBS conducted on the iPhone 3G’s launch day in the U.S. and Britain revealed that nearly 37 percent of the communication device’s buyers were current iPhone users. Typically in the U.S. market, users replace their handsets, on average, only once every 17.7 months, the J.D. Power & Associates firm told BusinessWeek.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
mrtaxx Says:
Apple sold 1 Million new 3g iPhones in 3 days in July 2008, not 700K in weeks, Where do you get these numbers from? This is the 3rd article I read today with the same 700K error. What do you writers copy each others mistakes? Don’t you writers do your homework? Apparently not.
Apparently, this article can not be relied on for accuracy.
Posted on August 07, 2008