Los Angeles (CA) – Apple has sold 525,000 cellphones during the iPhone’s launch weekend, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.

"Shoppers snatched up about 525,000 of the devices at Apple and AT&T stores from Friday's launch through Sunday, told Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research, the newspaper. She noted that “half of the Apple stores on the West Coast” ran out of supply on Friday; AT&T’s 1800 stores were believed to have sold their available iPhones by Saturday.

Exact supply numbers were kept confidential. However, reports indicated that most Apple stores had about 500 phones available, while availability in AT&T stores was closer to 100. Activation issues appeared to have been the biggest hurdle during the launch weekend: Chowdhry said that the “the load was more than the [AT&T] system was designed to handle.”

Market research firm Piper Jaffray came up with similar sales estimates and told news.com that about 500,000 iPhones were sold between Friday and Sunday. If Global Equities Research and Piper Jaffray are right, then Apple has sold about 5% of the the iPhones the company plans to sell in the next 12 months (10 million).

500k phones...

Jul 02, 2007 14:45     

Listed on Ebay.
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eBay

Jul 02, 2007 14:55     

Actually there are about 10,000.
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Can the iPhone storys stop now??

Jul 02, 2007 15:12     

yeah it's great and blah blah blah. Enough already what more can you say about it??? Anyway any idiot that buys on EBay needs help. Every ATT/Apple store by me still has them in stock. I'll only charge you $50 extra for one.
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Gotta try it at least...

Jul 02, 2007 16:25     

I'm hitting the mall after work to play with one. I have to give it a chance.
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LOL

Jul 02, 2007 18:04     

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3Y7ePBF_Q don't really condone the use of a 9 year old but...
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Welcome to the world of tomorrow.

Jul 02, 2007 18:25     

It's beautiful. It's revolutionary. It seamlessly combines features already found on many other devices. Is it worth the $ ? NO. There's a sucker born every minute and Steve Jobs just found about a year's worth, and they are not going to be happy when their batteries die within a year! $600 for 8GB of storage? C'mon! But the iPhone truly is a milestone in the evolution of technology, and the early adopters just want a piece of the world of tomorrow, whatever the cost. Double the storage, allow me to change the battery, and knock off about $200, then I am interested.

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wow, my phone already does all that and then some

Jul 02, 2007 20:26     

My Cingular 8525 has 3g (iphone doesnt), I can install thousands of 3rd party software applications (iphone can't), I can stream an UNLIMITED (storage doesnt matter) amount of songs through winamp remote, which is way way way more than 8gb worth (infinite that is...). My phone has micro sd expansion, bluetooth, office applications of everykind. Voice recognition etc., and the list goes on....oh yea, $200 less than iphone, haha.

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Big payday

Jul 02, 2007 22:23     

A BusinessWeek report suggests the iPhone only costs around $220 to make that a good profit
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What a sad day. Thanks Apple

Jul 03, 2007 07:53     

What a sad day. What the iphone launch really shows is how far the US is behind the rest of the world in technology. You have a corporations Apple and ATT selling a 2.5 g device. The rest of the world would not be so easy because they are far more tech savvy than the US. That is how far we are behind.
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Thats nothin, M$ sold 1 mil Zunes in 9 months

Jul 03, 2007 20:49     

LOL
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Apple and AT&T has fooled USA

Jul 11, 2007 13:44     

The iphone is only a 2.5G gadget, AT&T (Old Cingular) has integrated most of the major markets with 3G services, T-Mobile has started the project. It wasn't a wise idea to buy a 2.5G phone for such a huge price. In a year's time, AT&T and T-Mobile will tell all of us to change over to 3G. Then all the GSM 2G and 2.5G phones would be of no use at all. Spending 500 dollars for one year over a phone is bullshit...!!!!!!!! AT&T and Apple has got good marketing brains.....

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