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600,000 iPhone 4 Pre-Orders

Despite all of AT&T’s problems, Apple and crew have managed to sell 600,000 iPhone 4 handsets. In an official PR statement, Apple reports, “It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions.”

[via Gizmodo]

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