New York: Just after three days of Apple’s next generation iPhone 5 reveal, the New York giant says Apple’s latest iPhone has broken sales record in the first weekend of the highly-anticipated smartphone going on sale.   

AT&T said that iPhone 5 has sold faster than any previous model of the Apple smartphone.

The network declined to offer numbers on the first weekend of the iPhone 5 going on sale — normally reserved for Apple, in which an announcement is expected in the coming days — but the cell network giant said it set a “sales record” for its first day of pre-orders and over the weekend.

In the first hour, the first batch of iPhone 5 smartphones were sold out, pushing back delivery times from September 21 to as far as early October.

Apple said on Friday, following the outages and delays, that it was “blown away by the customer response,” and noted that: “Pre-orders for iPhone 5 have been incredible.”

Apple is expected to sell between 6 million to 10 million iPhone’s in September alone, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, with an overall 49 million units in the fourth-quarter in the run-up to the Christmas holiday season.

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