The iPhone’s being hyped beyond belief in feverish anticipation ahead of its release this Friday - now O2 and Carphone Warehouse are both claiming it’ll smash mobile sales records.
A bullish Carphone’s expecting to sell up to 10,000 on the day it goes on sale, according to head of wireless UK Darren Gardner. Meanwhile, O2 has put it’s two-pennies worth in, claiming it hopes to sell 200,000 of the devices by Christmas.
Considering the phone goes on sale at 6.02pm (see what they’ve done there) on a Friday night, and even allowing for the Carphone stores staying open until 10pm, that’ll be no mean feet. Presumably he means by the close of business on Saturday.
By our reckoning 200,000 would account for about a fifth of all phone connections in the quarter leading up to Christmas (Judging by the operators’ financial result), and it works out at about 5263 iPhones per day on each of the 38 shopping days between launch and Christmas day. You know, they might just do it.
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