by Playfuls Staff |
29th January 2008
European telecom giant Deutsche Teleokom announced it has sold more than 70,000 Apple iPhone handhelds since the inception of the craved gadget on the German market.
It appears Germans are [more] not displeased with iPhone's lack of 3G connectivity since more than 70,000 of them have signed long-term contracts with T-mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile subsidiary. The multi-media phone was launched last year on November 9.
"The iPhone is by far the most sold multimedia device in T-Mobile's portfolio," the head of T-Mobile Germany, Philipp Humm, said in an interview published on T-Mobile's Intranet. The company has obtained exclusive distribution rights from Apple in Germany but has been forced to sell the smartphone at the exorbitant price of €999 (about $1500) following a complaint from its rival Vodafone.
In France Apple's touchscreen gadget is doing even better, with more than 70,000 contracts signed in a shorter period of time (Orange France launched the iPhone on November 28, 2007).
Overall, Apple reported more than 4 million iPhones sold since June 29, 2007, when its revolutionary handheld debuted.
