Apple might sell four million Iphone 4S this weekend

FLOGGER OF SHINY TOYS Apple could sell as many as four million of its latest Iphone 4S smartphones this weekend.

The cappuccino company is poised to shift over twice as many Iphone 4S phones as it did Iphone 4 devices in their days on sale, according to Bloomberg and an analyst roundup.

The four million figure comes from Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe, who told the INQUIRER, "I've heard figures that Apple built more than 4M units for launch; All carriers currently show sold out."

Charlie Wolf from analysts Needham & Co pitched the numbers lower but added, "It's going to easily outpace any previous launch," in his interview with Bloomberg. The lower estimates put sales at two or three million.

In that fiscal quarter, Apple's third quarter of last year, the firm sold 8.4 million handsets. If Apple does sell half as many as that this weekend it will prove that there is some real cash, and not just people, in the queues outside its stores. µ