14 DAY TRIAL // The iPhone sold pretty well in the first month since its release. Research firm iSuppli has reached the conclusion that Apple's phone outsold the sum of all smartphone sales during July.
iSuppli observed that the iPhone makes 1.8 percent of all mobile phone unit sales in the US during that month. The number has surely dropped in the next month, as the craze faded out. The handset has managed to surpass the sales numbers reached by RIM, with its BlackBerry devices, Palm ones and Motorola, Nokia such phone models too.
Just how much can the iPhone be considered a smartphone? If we compare it to this class of devices it is slightly vague. The fact that users cannot load third-party software on the device is one feature that pulls it out from the smartphone line of devices. Because of this, it can be considered more of a crossover phone than belonging to one specific product line.
It is remarkable to see that the iPhone has managed to surpass all other promising entrance phones, but not surprising at all. The device has enjoyed strong publicity which increased people's curiosity and opened the road for it to best enter the new market.
iSuppli has also made researches on the type of people who decided to buy an iPhone. Most of them were men aged 35 or less. They had a four-year college degree or more, figures that are also verified by other previous research results. Moreover, the number of male iPhone buyers has been only slightly higher than that of women deciding to buy Apple's phone.
The device has been sold in an equal number to that of LG's Chocolate phone, which shows great potential for the future too. The research firm forecasts that 4.5 million iPhones will be sold only this year, with great potential of reaching 30 million units by 2011.