Digitimes’ latest report puts some numbers on the low end iPhones coming out of China. The 2.5 year old iPhone 3GS has continued to sell briskly with the volume likely to reach two million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 1.4-1.6 million units in the first quarter of 2012, according to “industry sources”.
Think about that for a second. In a world where a new, free Android flagship phone comes out every week or so and dying out a few months later, Apple is selling 2 million/quarter of a device that was introduced two and a half years ago. This is the phone the original Droid went up against — in fact.
Verizon and conceivably other CDMA carriers in the world have also continued to sell the iPhone 4 CDMA version at an impressive clip.
- iPhone 3GS supply tightens ahead of likely discontinuation this fall (9to5mac.com)
- Siri ported to the iPhone 3GS, does not work as well as the iPhone 4 port (9to5mac.com)
- At 3 in Sweden, the iPhone 3GS is on a fire sale (9to5mac.com)
