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"Apple is about to more than double the number of countries where the iPhone 5 is available.\nApple announced Monday that the iPhone 5 will go on sale in South Korea this Friday, and arrive in more than 50 additional countries by the end of this month.\nThe iPhone 5 officially went on sale in the U.S. and a handful of other countries on Sept. 21 and is currently available in 47 countries around the world. The accelerated roll out this month will help Apple to make good on its promise to get the iPhone on sale in 100 countries by the end of the year.\nThe news of the expanded roll out comes at a time when supplies of the iPhone 5 finally appear to be catching up to demand.\u00A0Shipping times for the iPhone in the U.S. are now down to just one week, after more than two months of shipping times between two and three weeks.\nHere's the roll out schedule, according to Apple:\n\nFriday, Dec. 7: South Korea\nFriday, Dec. 14: Albania, Antigua, Barbuda, Armenia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Grenada, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Macedonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Montenegro, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela\nFriday, Dec. 21: Barbados, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St.Vincent &amp; the Grenadines, Tunisia, Uganda and Vietnam.\n\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Brett Jordan."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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