iPhone Is The Fastest Selling Smartphone September 5, 2007
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Apple’s latest media sensation, the iPhone, outsold all other smartphones in the US during July.
According to market watchers, iSuppli, the much-hyped iPhone – which launched at the end of June – accounted for 1.8% of all phones sold in July, outselling the Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio, and any smartphones from Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung, among others.
Sales even equalled those of the fashion-friendly LG Chocolate, which is classed as the best-selling feature phone. The iPhone is classed by iSuppli as a smartphone/feature phone hybrid. So, who’s buying these things?
iPhone Demographics
· Approximately 57% of iPhones bought in July were purchased by US consumers 35 years of age or younger.
· Most iPhone buyers were men in July, with 52% of purchasers being male and 48% female.
· Nearly two-thirds, or 62%, of iPhone buyers in July had a four-college degree or more education.
· One quarter of consumers who bought iPhones switched to AT&T service. AT&T is the exclusive provider of service for the iPhone.
So, it’s off to a great start but even iSuppli is cautious be saying much of the early demand could be down to pent-up fans. Still, it forecasts that Apple will flog 4.5 million of them by the end of the year and 30 million by the end of 2011.-Martin Lynch
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IT IS NOT A SMARTPHONE! What sat-nev can i install on it? Where's the memory card slot? 3G? and 100 more things i could moan about...
Shows how stupid people really are (in America) and how sucked in they get by branding and advertising
Andy — iPhone version one isn't be perfect in terms of features, but for user experience it is without peer.
3G and sat nav can be added later.
It's a new way to interact with the phone. You can't just sit down with a tick off table and quantify it all feature for feature.
It's too simplistic and overlooks key things more abstract but just as important concepts like user interaction and user experience.
ive used one and it was annoying. The on-screen keyboard is near useless and the amount of features it is missing is beyond a joke. Youtube, but no video recording? No MMS? You cant even cut and paste on the thing. I just got frustrated with it.
I see what you mean about the experience, but it costs sooo much for an "experience", in the long run it is an overpriced PHONE for fashion followers and apple fanboys., not a funtional smartphone.
My annoyance is that this article calls it a smartphone. Its not smart and canjust about be used as a phone. But, if it is a music orientated device, where is the earphone support, A2DP and option to send songs over Bluetooth, my old Samsung D500 could do that!
Personally I've never bought a smart phone. A lot of my mates work in IT and have blackberrys and hugh touch screen bricks running windows. I've got a basic phone by comparison but just use it for making calls and sending texts. Tried the web browsing and it's worse than useless, and getting my songs on it is painful and messes up.
I'm going to buy an iPhone because my contract's up and I'd like to have a phone with good features like the decent web browsing etc, plus I need a new iPod, my phone contract's just up, so why not kill two birds?But more importantly I want to be able to use it. I'm confident I'll be able to use every feature with no hassle.
I've been reading reviews to make sure I'm not throwing money away, and my overall conclusion is that my IT mates and people like them think it doesn't have enough features for the price, but at least I won't be asking them how to make things work all the time!
I think Apple are good at bringing what techie blokes use to the masses and making it much more usable, but they sacrifice tech specs and charge you more. That's fine with me so I can't wait to get one, fingers crossed I'll get a phone I can really use on Tuesday!