More than 4 million
iPhone 4S handsets have been sold worldwide in just the first three days of the mobile's release,
Apple has revealed.
The staggering figure compares with the 1.7 million units that were sold by the California-based company in the same period last year following the launch of the
iPhone 4 smartphone .
According to
Apple, more than 25 million customers are already using its latest
mobile operating system
iOS 5, while more than 20 million people have signed up for
iCloud, a web-based service for wirelessly storing and synchronizing content across
Apple devices .
Both were unveiled earlier this month alongside the
iPhone 4S .
The latest version of the iconic
mobile phone went on sale on Friday 14 October in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK.
The launch, which saw hundreds of thousands of customers lining up outside Apple stores from Sydney to San Francisco, marked the company’s first hardware release since the death of former CEO and technology guru Steve Jobs.
Analysts in the US believe total sales of the
iPhone 4S for the current quarter may top 25 million.