This is how we say “iPhone sales” in Germany

A couple weeks back, Orange CEO Didier Lombard announced that Apple’s French telecom partner had logged 70,000 iPhone sales in 2007. The number was pretty much in the middle of earlier estimates that ranged between 50,000 and 100,000.

Now it’s Germany’s turn. T-Mobile’s CEO Philipp Humm (pictured) said this weekend that they’d reached the same number. Despite the fact that T-Mobile says the iPhone is “the most sold multimedia device in T-Mobile’s portfolio,” it’s interesting to note that it took the provider 11 weeks to reach that number, as they began selling the iPhone on November 9 of last year; the iPhone was actually launched later in France, having not reached that country until November 28th. So it took Germany more than twice as long to sell the same number of phone, perhaps indicating that the demand in that country isn’t quite as strong.

There are as of yet no hard numbers for the UK, the other European country in which the phone is being sold, though unofficial estimates suggest that sales there have been stronger than in France in Germany. There’s also the question of just how much sales of unlocked phones have contributed to lower demand in those countries. Unlocked phones were also sold briefly in Germany when rival provider Vodafone took T-Mobile to court for its exclusive deal with Apple, which could also affect sales figures.

[via Infinite Loop]

Category: News

Posted by Dan Moren on Jan 28 2008, 11:45 AM ET

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