iPhone 4S pre-orders top a million

Yesterday, Apple announced that it has topped one million pre-orders in one day for its newly launched iPhone 4S. This beat its previous record of 600 000 held by the iPhone 4.

Apple yesterday announced pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600 000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics: an all new camera with advanced optics: full 1080p HD resolution video recording: and Siri, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. ‚We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,‚ said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. ‚The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.‚ iPhone 4S will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK beginning at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, October 14. iPhone 4S includes iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features, and iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices. Availability iPhone 4S comes in either black or white and will be available in a 16GB, 32GB and new 64GB model. iPhone 4S will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries by the end of October including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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