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iPhone 4S Launch Breaks Sprint's One Day Sales Record

I walked into the Apple Store in the Americana in Glendale, CA and got a phone in under 10 minutes. No wait or anything. My phone activated itself before I walked away. In fact, the guy who was first in line at 8am this morning was still waiting to activate on ATT at 2pm...

Quick review of Siri: Totally awesome. Worth the price in itself. Very good for looking stuff up while driving or whatever because you don't have to look at the phone. I texted a friend, looked up directions, and set an alarm without having to mess with buttons, screens, etc. Very very cool.
 
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WestonHarvey1 said:
if Sprint really wants to differentiate themselves they should allow FaceTime over the network.
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Even if they wanted to they can't. It's software limited to wifi.

Not that it would work good anyway.
 
Sprint never actually releases sales figures, so you won't get clarification...
 
I think the post on size/color scheme is what they mean. And the EVO was a huge launch, so the Pre doesn't really factor in here.

You can't say "The iPhone 4S 16GB in black sold more than the EVO"...iPhone is iPhone here, why nitpick it to death?
 
*LTD* said:
The phone that saved Sprint.
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I truly hope you're correct. Yet according to many news reports leading up to Sprints first day selling the iPhone, there's a lot of concern regarding Sprints ability to afford selling the iPhone. With the razor thin margin Apple allows, there's no room for error or anything less than huge volume sales every single day going forward.

AT&T plus Verizon being very well capitalized and in high demand, are able to carry the burden. Sprint may collapse under the pressure. I sure hope not.

Unlike Apple who's the bully and doing their best to crush others, I like my friends and family to have choices.
 
I'm very happy for Sprint and it really doesn't matter what the exact meaning is. The fact is Sprint had its best day ever today and that's a good thing and hopefully a sign of things to come.

It's a little puzzling to see so many negative comments against Sprint. Why not just wish them well? Seems like some people would actually be happy if Sprint was to fail. Not cool :/
 
AppleScruff1 said:
Doubtful. Unless it gets them about 5 million new customers a quarter.
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If they can get network speeds up, it just might. Unlimited data for less money then the competition charges for tiered plans can be a compelling force.

When I first joined Sprint in June of 2009, I was getting 3G speeds of 1.2-2.2mbps everywhere I went. Now I struggle to break 500kbps anywhere unless I'm on WiMax. They've really slowed down and my ONLY complaint with them.
 
nvbrit said:
device family probably refers to what type of devices they are, ie. smartphones, tablets etc. so they are probably saying "broke the "device family" one-day sales record" meaning the one day sales record for smartphones as that what family these phones belong to
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This one.

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a.gomez said:
huh?, what does that even mean... breaks the sales record for a "divice family" what other divice families have there been :rolleyes:

so combined sales of IP4 and IP4S was higher over what? the PRE family? iPhone 4S on its own broke nothing? as always Sprint PR is worthless
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First of all, it's "device" not "divice."

Second, they're talking about smartphones. It's in that family of devices, as someone else pointed out.

Third, even if it meant what you thought it meant, let's not forget that the previous record-holder for Sprint was the HTC EVO 4G, which had its own follow-up, the HTC EVO 3D. So the iPhone "family" buried the EVO "family".

Either way, the iPhone knocked it out of the park.
 
Sixtyin3 said:
If they can get network speeds up, it just might. Unlimited data for less money then the competition charges for tiered plans can be a compelling force.

When I first joined Sprint in June of 2009, I was getting 3G speeds of 1.2-2.2mbps everywhere I went. Now I struggle to break 500kbps anywhere unless I'm on WiMax. They've really slowed down and my ONLY complaint with them.
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If they sell too many iPhones it will choke their network even more. And time will tell how long the unlimited data will last.
 
wovel said:
Unless that is the only metric they ever release. It actually does not make it any more or less impressive. For example they still sold galaxies when they launched the S2, it was bigger than that. When he s3 comes out, that day, the whole galaxy family will sell less than the iPhone 4/iPhone 4s. It is not really hard to understand.
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I was talking with the tech activating my phone last night. He told me the previous best launch weekend was the HTC EVO. He then went on to say the iPhone 4s sold more in the first 12 hours then the entire weekend of the EVO phone.

Now that is impressive.
 
It'd be interesting to learn how many customers were new to Sprint, how many were Sprint customers upgrading and how many defected from other carriers. The more people who jump ship from AT&T, the more bandwidth for those of us on that carrier. :D

Of course, AT&T had a record number of sales as well, so maybe it'll all balance out in the end.... :(
 
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Bought two 64GB black models today!
 
This is huge for Sprint, they needed this. I was at an Apple store today and only Sprint staff were hanging out at the event. I didn't see any Verizon or ATT employees. Sprint seem real excited about this event too.
 
Ordered one last night

The rep told me that today folks at Sprint dressed up and had a small iPhone party! :D

I am not saying everyone should switch to Sprint, but the way I see it iPhone user base divided over 3 carriers is much better than AT&T & Verizon calling all the shots.
 
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