South Korea's telecom big KT Corp. said Wednesday it had acquired greater than a 100,000 reservations for the iPhone four in the first day of preorders for the latest mannequin of Apple Inc.'s smartphone.

KT, the native distributor of Apple's iPhones and the second-largest cellular carrier within the nation, said greater than a 100,000 individuals had positioned a preorder for the smash-hit smartphone. A preorder, nonetheless, is topic to cancellation if a customer chooses to opt out.

The iPhone four is proving rather more fashionable than Apple's earlier model, the iPhone 3GS, which received sixty five,000 preorders in the first 5 days of reservations in the country. It took 5 days for the Galaxy S, Samsung Electronics Co.'s flagship smartphone released in June, to interrupt the 100,000 sales milestone in the domestic market.

Upon opening at 6 a.m. Wednesday, the preorder Web page for the iPhone four skilled a delay for about one hour as the server was overloaded by tens of thousands of customers accessing the site at the similar time, in response to a KT spokesman.

KT started receiving preorders with out stating the exact date it will ship the model. The iPhone 4 will likely be launched someday in September, in line with KT.

South Korea was originally on the list of 18 international locations for the iPhone four's July release, but it was the one country dropped from the list. Apple and KT postponed the launch citing regulatory requirements.

Apple's previous model, the iPhone 3GS, which was released in South Korea on the finish of 2009, topped 850,000 in gross sales in about eight months.

KT is hoping to boost its smartphone gross sales and retain subscribers as its rival SK Telecom Co., South Korea's prime mobile carrier, sold greater than 600,000 models of Samsung's Galaxy S as of last month, amid the delay within the iPhone four's local release.

source: unwiredview