Tale of the tape: iPhone 4 sales top 1.7 million

I love my iphone4 I brought it on the release date and it has not failed me yet its the best phone on the market! My room-mate has a droid,my best friend have HTC HD and my brother has the HTC EVO and they all want to switch over to the Iphone4 after comparing the Photo’s and video taken by Iphone4, and the graphics and gameplay of the games! multi tasking and all of the great features on the Iphone4 that the phone has and didn’t list…..100 plus new features……… I got rid of my T-mobile account for good now and i’m sticking with the Iphone4 ,by far the best phone on the market!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you can take that to the bank. Its weird how the Iphone4 only has a 5 Mega Pixel camera but it take better and more true to color photo’s than the phones with 5, 8, and 12 mega pixel phones and I dare same camera’s as well.

Mine works fine too and a better than blanket understanding of how an iPhone works might help you make a more valid point. Most of the hardware in the iPhone can be manipulate via software.

Secondly if there was ever a company that I wouldn't get freaked over a possible recall from it is Apple.
1. They have the $$$ to afford it if it should happen
2. Logistically Apple is one of the best companies at supply chain management
3. It is very early in the products lifecycle, not even a week old yet

I doubt it will ever come to that but i though it worth pointing out.

I find it quite amazing that we're not hearing of more DOA iPhones. I mean even if 99.99% (anyone care to guess what this figure might really be?) aren't lemons there's 17,000 out there that were and that's surely enough to general some internet traffic.

If Apple is going to ship >1M iPhones on release weekends in future the changes of keeping the products under wraps are rapidly slimming.

I'm pretty sure you were telling us that you and "all your friends" were moving away from the Iphone and going Android. You were also saying that the "growth can not go on forever"

I think you actually thought your anecdotal evidence, at that point, was worth a shit.

Looks like nobody more than Apple could agree more! They're competing more strongly than anyone in smartphones! Just 3 years ago, they flipped the market on its head and they've been pushing it along since.

Heck, without apple, we'd still be waiting for a better razr browser.

yea yea yea... blahblah when is it coming simlock free for everyone for a reasonable price.... Now that would be a *thing* i would write about instead of the expected sales figures.

reply to Jordan:

Mine works fine, have you even used one yet?

Jordan - please provide a cite from Apple that unequivocally states that the hardware is flawed. I don't think anybody can say for sure what the problem is right now since this doesn't happen to everyone and it appears to happen to other models. There are lots of hypotheses, but none can point to anything really solid as to what the root cause is. All we have are symptoms, not a full diagnosis.

How about we wait for an official statement before we rush to judge.

Even by troll standards, Neil, that's pretty weak beer.

How does the sale of 1.7 million iPhones say anything about the health or level of competition in the mobile phone market?

You're a moron.