18.06.2009 20:35 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

iPhone 3G S: Already 45,000 Units Pre-ordered from Orange!?

Orange announced to have already received reservations for 45,000 iPhone 3G S units only for the French market. It is not entirely clear if this number defines pre-orders or simply customers willing to be informed when the handheld will be available. As Orange is also an official carrier for the iPhone in other countries, those figures should be higher for the global market of this carrier. If you consider that in France, as in some other countries, the iPhone is offered by three different carriers, based on this figure one could then expect to have around 100,000 units pre-ordered or sold on its launch day in France. If similar values are expected in Germany, UK, Spain and Italy, it would then imply around half a million iPhone 3G S models that would be purchased within the first 24 hours following its launch in EU. We will have to wait till tomorrow evening to know if those figures were true, or just marketing expectations or claims made by a carrier to boost its sale or exposure

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