Apple sells over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units in 3 days - Selling Like Hot Cakes

There you have it. 600,000 pre-orders have turned into 1.7 million iPhone 4 sales through this Saturday. The Sunday transactions haven't even been tallied up yet, but Steve and company already have another reason to look smug. That total eclipses the 3GS' already phenomenal 1 million units sold over a weekend, and stands pretty much head and shoulders above any other launch the mobile world has yet seen. 

Apple, iPhone 4, new sales record. Thats the story today, as Apple announces that it took the Cupertino-based company less than a week – well, only 3 days – to sell over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units. That’s means the company sold more than half a million iPhone 4 units every day in the first 3 days following its Thursday, June 24th launch.

1.7 million in 3 days. Really. If you’d like to read the whole press release then check it out after the jump.

The company went as far as to call it the “most successful product launch in Apple’s history”, citing its iconic chief executive Steve Jobs.

Bloomberg had predicted Apple would sell over 1 million on launch day alone, but the Cupertino company has not disclosed sales numbers for June 24 specifically.

Just for your reference: it took Apple 28 days to sell 1 million iPads, 59 days to sell 2 million of them and 80 days to sell 3 million.

Jobs also says in the press release announcing the first iPhone 4 milestone that he’s sorry about “all those customers” who were turned away because the company did not have enough supply. 

Check Out The Official Press Release Below :

iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million

CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2010—Apple® today announced that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24. The new iPhone 4 features FaceTime, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, and Apple’s new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in stunning text, images and video.

“This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply.”

iPhone 4 also features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD 720p video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time—in a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world.

iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform.

Via Fonearena

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