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While it likely won’t come as much of a surprise to those reading that, it seems that Apple’s recently released iPhone sales numbers and AT&T’s customer number don’t precisely match up, leading those ever so insightful analysts to conclude that many of the phones are being sold with the sole intention of being unlocked. What is somewhat surprising, however, is precisely how many phones that might be. As MacWorld reports, Apple says it sold 3.7 million iPhones in 2007, while AT&T says it signed up about two million or so iPhone customers during the same duration period. While those

aforementioned analysts point out that Apple’s numbers were boosted by 300,000-400,000 sales in Europe, and likely a few sold by the holidays that were yet to be activated, that still leaves by a million iPhones running free out there. whether you do the math, that seems to propose that roughly one in three iPhones sold are being unlocked although, obviously, we’re not about to get a confirmation on that number from anyone.

 

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Original post by Donald Melanson