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Carphone Warehouse Sets bar at 10,000 iPhones
iPhone day UK is just one week away, and while it's yet to be seen if people will camp out for days in advance as they did over here in the colonies, Carphone Warehouse is predicting early UK sales to be huge. The retailer expects to move no fewer than 10,000 iPhones at the Friday launch.
Certainly an eye-popping number, but not unrealistic, given that Apple was able to sell 270,000 phones in the first two days in the US with just the Apple store and AT&T retail outlets. Carphone warehouse could end up doing even better than 10,000, given thesmaller number of Appple retail stores in the UK.
If the UK launch is anything like the US launch, you'll actually be better off going to Carphone Warehouse than the Apple store. In San Francisco, lines outside the Apple store wrapped around the block, while there were maybe 50 people outside the AT&T outlet. If you want to get an iPhone and can live without the Apple ra-ra display, Carphone Warehouse could be the way to go.
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