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Apple’s just announced that it’s sold 3 million iPads worldwide since the US launch date, which is a pretty impressive sales rate, we’ll give them that. The announcement also mentions that the tablet will drop in nine more countries during the month of July, so if you’re currently living in a sad iPad-less nation, take comfort: you could be next. Press release is below, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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Apple has sold three million iPads in 80 days originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We were amazed last night to see both Apple and AT&T sell out of iPhone 4 pre-order units despite the sustained ordering issues, and now we know why: Apple managed to move 600,000 iPhones in just a single day. Yes, that’s a lot — Apple says it’s the largest number of pre-orders it’s ever taken in one day, and AT&T says it’s ten times as many orders as it took for the iPhone 3GS. It’s not all sunshine and roses, though; Apple’s also apologizing to the large numbers of people who simply couldn’t get through yesterday, and AT&T’s suspended pre-orders entirely until the device is in stock. We’re guessing AT&T might also be putting the stopper on things while it gets those pesky security issues under control, but there’s a chance the carrier is just trying to deal with the insane order volume coming from Apple’s servers — it served up 13 million eligibility checks yesterday, shattering the previous record by three times. All in all, it looks like Apple has a hot item on its hands here — almost too hot to handle. Here’s Apple’s full statement:

Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions. Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration. We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock.

Update: Looks like that “ships by” date just slipped once more from July 2nd to July 14th. Yikes.

600,000 iPhone 4s pre-ordered, Apple apologizes for issues originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You know the backstory by now: Sprint boasted that the EVO 4G was its fastest selling phone ever a couple of days after hitting the American market, before abruptly correcting itself and admitting that the EVO’s sales were in fact in line with those achieved by the Pre last summer. What you, and we, didn’t know till now, however, is that Sprint’s self-correction was sparked off by an employee with a curious mind and posting privileges over on the xda-developers forum. On June 6, according to MobileCrunch, this unnamed hero of truthiness browsed Sprint’s internal inventory system and nailed down a figure of 65,500 sold units from Sprint’s own stores — a stat far south from what Sprint would announce a day later. That number ultimately found its way onto the message board, and though it obviously shouldn’t be taken as authoritative (or exhaustive), it was enough to get Sprint to hit the auto-correct button and part ways with the activist member of staff. Harsh.

[Thanks, Carol]

Sprint fires employee who leaked weak EVO 4G sales numbers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple has just trotted out its latest sales milestone for the iPad: two million devices have now been sold since the slate’s launch on April 3. We promise we won’t bother you with sales figures every time another million gets rounded, but it’s notable that the company has managed to maintain the rapid pace it achieved with its hero tablet during its first month on the market. Of course, that big international launch just a couple of days ago would surely have had something to do with it as well. Ah well, good for them.

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Apple sells two million iPads, international launch likely the main culprit originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 May 2010 08:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Look, the N900 might be sitting at the top of Nokia’s handset pyramid in terms of capabilities, but as we’ve said all along, the N900 is not a mass-market device. Nokia’s been very clear that the N900 was launched as a means to strengthen its Maemo development community (on the path to MeeGo we now know). And by all accounts, it’s done just that while winning a rabid fanbase of nerds in the process. Nevertheless, Reuters uses Gartner’s estimate of less than 100,000 units sold in the device’s first five months as proof that Nokia can’t mount a challenge to RIM and Apple. True the numbers are paltry compared to the 8.75 million iPhones Apple sold from January to March, but a more apt comparison might be the oft noted Nexus One sales that reached just 135k units moved after 74 days. Regardless, in its defense, Alberto Torres, head of Nokia’s solutions business said that “Sales have substantially exceeded expectations.” So yeah, Nokia has problems, but the N900 isn’t wasn’t one of them.

Update: While Nokia doesn’t normally give out detailed sales figures per device, we’ve just been told that more than 100,000 N900s sold in the first five weeks — not months — globally.

Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 05:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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