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The Apple iPhone 4S was criticised by some of the tech press when it launched in early October for being too similar to the existing iPhone 4, but that doesn’t seem to have dented the UK public’s enthusiasm to snap up the latest Apple handset.
According to The Guardian, iPhone sales tripled in October as Apple fans were finally able to get their hands on a new iPhone for the first time in 16 months – the longest delay between iPhones since the iconic gadget first touched down in 2007.
Even more impressively, the numbers show that the iPhone 4S accounted for 42.8 per cent of all smartphone sales for the month, versus 35 per cent for every Android phone on the market put together.
Those figures are likely to settle somewhat once the initial demand has subsided, of course, but it’s an impressive debut all the same for the fifth-generation iPhone.
Incidentally, the figures also reveal that smartphones made up just shy of 70 per cent of all mobile handset sales in the 12 weeks leading up to the end of October. Overall, some 44.8 per cent of the UK public owns a smartphone, but that figure is now rising as quickly as it ever was.
This blog post was posted by The Gadget Show.
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