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Apple said it sold its one millionth iPhone on Sunday, some 74 days after its debut. The sales numbers for the device make it the best selling phone model debut ever, and ranks near the top debuts of any electronic device in history. In comparison, it took the iPod two years to reach the same milestone. Brisk sales of the phone are likely to continue: last week the company reduced the price of the 8GB model to $399, while discontinuing the 4GB version.

"We can't wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season," CEO Steve Jobs said. Not everybody is in agreement about the numbers, however. iSuppli estimated about 500,000 units were sold as of the end of July. In order for Apple to reach that one million number, it would have had to sell 500,000 phones in the past six weeks.

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Apple has secured revenue sharing deals to bring its iPhone to Europe, the Financial Times reported late Tuesday.

Three operators have signed deals with Apple that will be officially announced later this month at an industry trade show, the paper reported. They are T-Mobile in Germany, Orange in France, and O2 in the UK.

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Although Apple won't announce its quarterly earnings that will include the first two days of iPhone sales until Wednesday, AT&T said Tuesday that it had activated 146,000 iPhones on the 29th and 30th of June, far below analyst expectations.

Initial figures estimated weekend iPhone sales to range from 300,000 to upwards of 700,000 - with the majority falling around 500,000. Unless most activations came Sunday July 1 or Monday July 2, which is unlikely, those lofty expectations were not met. Apple's stock fell 5% in early trading Tuesday due to the news.

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Apple confirmed the launch date of its highly-anticipated foray into the mobile handset market in a Sunday night television ad: the iPhone is coming Friday, June 29. That doesn't mean the device will be easy to obtain, however, as Cingular customers are expected to line up in droves for the $599 USD phone.

While Apple has yet to prove itself in the mobile space and the iPhone lacks now-key smartphone features like a QWERTY keyboard and 3G capability, the company has built an innovative touch screen user interface that has iPod and Mac fans clamoring to be early adopters. Cingular has a multi-year exclusive deal with Apple, which means customers from other wireless carriers are out of luck for the time being.

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AT MACWORLD In his keynote address at Macworld in San Francisco Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the oft-rumored and much-anticipated iPhone, although the device is somewhat different than what had been expected.

Instead of launching a separate widescreen ipod and iPhone, Apple has combined three different devices into a single one. The iPhone is a widescreen iPod, cellular phone, and Internet communicator in one device, and would be a true smartphone according to Jobs.

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