iPhone 3G launches in 21 more countries - Apple manufacturing 40 million more iPhone 3G

This entry was posted on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 by Aaron Besson
Category: 3G iPhone, What's New, iPhone.



The iPhone 3G is in it’s second wave of taking over the world. Yesterday the Apple iPhone 3G was launched in 21 more countries. Here is a list of the new countries courtesy iLounge:

Romania, India, the Philippines, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, four additional countries will see launches. Latvia and Lithuania will see the device launched on TeliaSonera’s LMT and Omnitel services, respectively, while T-Mobile and Orange will launch the iPhone in Slovakia, and SingTel will begin offering the device in Singapore.

Some reports are in that some carriers are paying actors to staging long lines infront of stores to try and attract customers by making it look like the device is in high demand.

In other news, BusinessWeek claims claims that Apple is ambitiously planning to build 40 million to 45 million iPhone 3Gs in the next 12 months. The iPhone 3G is now being manufatured at about 150,000 units per day, or about 800,000 devices a week. The sharp increase in production is to supply the previously mentioned 21 new countries that the iPhone 3G is now selling in.

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