iPhone 3G: Weekend 1 Tally

After much hullabaloo, the Apple iPhone 3G was finally released to the frothing masses last Friday, July 11. So how did the iPhone 3G fare its first weekend out on the market? Well, for one, it sold-out completely in Japan. But how does that translate into bottom-line numbers?

Apple analysts report that the company sold 1 million iPhone 3G handsets this weekend. This compared with the 74 days (according to Apple chief exec Steve Jobs) that it took to sell the first million first generation iPhones.

How the iPhone 3G fared with its one million maiden-voyagers is not, however, as easily quantifiable. There was a slew of activation problems, for one. And some users complained that the new iPhone simply isn’t all that much better than the old one (see our side-by-side comparison review for our own details on that subject).

As for the conjointly launched Apple App Store, it currently contains about 800 possible downloads and its first weekend out it saw an unbelievable 10 million downloads, which says to us that even if not everybody is necessarily flocking to buy the new iPhone, everyone and their brother is eating up the new iPhone software releases.