An impressive one-in-three iPhone 3G purchasers switched from another carrier to join AT&T, fresh NPD Group research has revealed, transforming the iPhone into the second best-selling mobile phone handset among US consumers, after Motorola's RAZR V3.
Apple was also the biggest-selling smartphone in the US, the research revealed.
Nearly half (47 per cent) of new AT&T iPhone customers that switched carriers switched from Verizon Wireless, another 24 per cent switched from T-Mobile, and 19 per cent switched from Sprint.
According to NPD's "iPhone 3G Report," before the launch of the iPhone 3G, iPhone sales represented 11 per cent of the consumer market for smartphones (January through May 2008); however, after the launch of iPhone 3G, Apple commanded 17 per cent of the smartphone market (January through August 2008).
The average price of a smartphone sold between June and August 2008 was $174, down 26 percent from $236 during the same period last year.
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