Verizon's iPhone sales are reportedly up thanks to growing iPhone 5 sales and cheaper iPhone 4S and 4 which are still able to attract decent customers.
Verizon, the second major wireless carriers to offer the iPhone in United States, is on the verge of beating AT&T’s. As reported by All Things D, sales of iPhone under the banner of Verizon is blooming with growing numbers compared to its 2011 posting.
For the third quarter of this year, Verizon reportedly sold 3.1 million iPhones and 650,000 were iPhone 5 with unlocked SIM slot out of the box. Unconfirmed reports from other sites say the Verizon iPhone 5′s unlocked SIM slot helped a lot because some customers who purchased the device are from other wireless carriers or loyal to other prepaid or postpaid carrier (T-Mobile USA customers are worth noting).
Apart from the new iPhone 5, customers of Verizon Wireless also purchased phones from older iPhone lineup. ATD estimates that the remaining 2.5 million iPhones activated by the largest LTE carrier in America were older models like dual-core processor-equipped iPhone 4S and the years-old iPhone 4.
Verizon and the two other partner carriers of Apple, Sprint and AT&T, are set to add more iPhone customers before the end of this year courtesy of the Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping rush and the growing demand for touchscreen smartphones.
The iPhone 5 is the first Apple smartphone with LTE or Long Term Evolution and also the first to include a 4-inch Retina touchscreen display. Apple’s iPhone 5 is also the thinnest and the lightest so far. The device is also equipped with an improved 8-megapixel camera, front-facing HD Facetime camera and the first to ship with iOS 6 mobile operating system out of the box.
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