New Zealand sells out of iPhones
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 17, 2008 at 9:47am
By Gaurang Donovan
In New Zealand, Vodafone has sold out of its first shipment of iPhone 3Gs. The New Zealand Herald says that controversial pricing plans for the phone, which went on sale in New Zealand before other countries at midnight last Thursday, didn’t put off thousands who paid up to $1129 to be among the first to get their hands on the Apple device.
Vodafone spokesman Paul Brislen would not reveal exactly how many handsets were sold, but said it was “in the thousands.” However, the AppleInsider web site put New Zealand’s figure of iPhone 3G sales at 3,000 over the weekend.
A delay was expected between when the stock ran out and when Vodafone was able to resupply the iPhone 3G, but Brislen says a “surprise shipment” has arrived and shop shelves are now being replenished to meet strong demand.
“We were literally down to one store,” he told the Herald this morning. “But the box has arrived, which we weren’t expecting, so the good news is that stores will be resupplied today—it’s happening as we speak.”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 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.
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