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"Issuing its third-quarter financial results today, US operator AT&amp;amp;amp;T continued to see strong iPhone sales, announcing that it activated 4.7 million iPhones in the quarter - 77 percent of its 6.1 million total smartphone activations.\r\n\r\nThe launch of the iPhone 5 (which went on sale at the very end of its third quarter) helped push\u00A0activations\u00A0up by a million from the previous quarter, where they totalled\u00A03.7 million (or 73 percent of its smartphone sales).\r\n\r\nAT&amp;amp;amp;T's figures are up on its rival Verizon which saw\u00A03.1 million iPhone activations in its third quarter, (650,000 of which were the iPhone 5).\r\n\r\nHowever, AT&amp;amp;amp;T didn't just see impressive iPhone activations, it also saw record quarterly activations of its Android and Windows Phone devices, but with 1.4 million devices potentially falling in that category, Apple reigns supreme.\r\n\r\nApple announced in September\u00A0that it sold more than\u00A02 million units\u00A0in its first 24 hours available on preorder,\u00A0amassing\u00A05 million iPhone 5 sales over its first weekend (three days) of general availability, slightly beating the 4 million iPhone 4S sales it recorded in October 2011.\r\n\r\nThe real impact of the iPhone 5 will be demonstrated in AT&amp;amp;amp;T (and Verizon's) fourth quarter, where holiday sales will also be reflected.\r\n\r\nImage Credit: AFP/Getty"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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