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Analysts have predicted that between three and four million iPhone 4S units will be sold during this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world have taken their position in long lines in front of Apple Stores sand other carrier/retailer stores where the device is being sold.

History repeats itself. Urban campers have already set up their folding chairs and are happily waiting for Apple stores and retail outlets to open at 8 am Friday, with a gleaming new stock of iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S, has already broken the pre-order record of 600,000 held by the iPhone 4, with the first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S the highest for any new product that Apple has ever launched.

Even if you have successfully placed a pre-order at Sam's Club for the Apple's newest iPhone 4S, there is only a slim possibility that you might actually get one on Friday. According to a report in Geek.com, Sam's Clubs nationwide haven't received iPhone 4S shipments expected for Friday's launch. Sam's Club representative confirmed the news that they were notified by Apple that initial iPhone 4S shipments would not be arriving as expected.

The pre-orders for iPhone 4S are sold out for Apple and all the carriers, which is meaning that there will be a few weeks of delay before an order placed online will be delivered to the customer leaving behind the only option of going to the local store to get it.

Apple's new operating system, for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, iOS 5, comes with more than 200 new features, and one extremely useful among them is the iMessage.

A federal telecommunications regulator asked AT&T Inc on Thursday to provide data on claims that its deal to buy T-Mobile USA would mean a net gain of U.S. jobs, saying its responses on this issue remain incomplete.

The new iPhone 4S may have disappointed reviewers who expected a newer machine, but the device has already become huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs

Apple iPhone 4S is being sold in stores on Friday. iPhone users have been anticipating the arrival of the iPhone 4S, so much so that pre-orders for the new smartphone sold out ahead of the store launch, according to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's Web sites.

Reports say the newest addition to the iPhone family, Apple's iPhone 4S, has sold out for pre-order at all three U.S. carriers -- Verizon, AT&T and Sprint.

The iMessage feature on the iOS 5 system may mean less money to the phone company and more money to spend on more Apple products.

Apple's new iPhone 4S will be available in Apple Stores from Friday, and the same day, customers who pre-ordered the new smartphone will get the product in their hands.

iPhone 4S will be available in two models - a 64-gigabyte model for $399 and a 32-gigabytes for $299 - with a two-year carrier contract.

Apple will finally release the new iPhone 4S in stores on Oct. 14. In addition to the online and physical Apple Stores, here is a list of the various retailers selling the iPhone 4S on its big launch day.

AT&T and the New York City Parks Department have brought free Wi-Fi to five more public parks across New York's boroughs. The initiative is part of a greater plan to digitize NYC.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S, which was unveiled on Oct. 4, will be hitting the stores on Oct. 14. The smartphone from Apple is going to face a tight competition with Motorola Droid Bionic.

Barclays Capital said the pace of iPhone 4S roll-out is fastest in the iPhone's history and points to a big December quarter push for Apple Inc.

AT&T/ Verizon / Sprint: Which is Best Network for the 'Most Amazing' iPhone 4S?

This will happen with an iOS release from Apple. Since iPhone 4S is an HSDPA device, our customers will get 4G speeds from day one. Only AT&T has this unique network advantage, the memo in the Verge emphasizes.

The release of the iPhone 4s smartphone by Apple (AAPL) will likely juice the shares of AT&T's (T) by attracting hundreds of thousands of younger adult subscribers to AT&T's stable. Those extra subscribers should also help T improve its network quicker -- something the company needs to do.

So it wasn't the highly-anticipated iPhone 5 so many wanted to see that Apple finally unveiled at its Let's talk iPhone event. Instead, it was the iPhone 4S, a charged-up version of the company's popular iPhone 4 that was unveiled and launched for sale in pre-orders last week. But the new iPhone 4S is still a big hit, as Apple says more than one million people ordered the new iPhone 4S in the first 24 hours the smartphone was put on sale.

Finally Apple has broken its silence over the number of pre-orders placed for the newly launched iPhone 4S, and imagine what; the new iPhone has broken the record set by its predecessor iPhone 4.

Shares of Apple rose 4 percent after the company announced receiving more than one million orders for the iPhone 4S in a day, nearly 70 percent more than an older version.

Apple Inc.'s next-generation iPhone 4S is fast becoming the people's favorite smartphone. Apple, AT&T and Verizon have exhausted their pre-order supplies of the iPhone 4S, which will begin delivery on Oct. 14, according to media reports.

Notwithstanding sad prophecies of a big failure, Apple Inc. has hit yet another out-of-the-park home run with its new iPhone 4S, with AT&T reportedly rang the register on 200,000 pre-ordered models of the smartphone in just 12 hours. Reports said that the company that also serves as the carrier of the Samsung Galaxy S2 or S II is working with Apple to show 4G indicator in iPhone 4S status bar.

iPhone 4S sales did not take a cue from Apple shares in the aftermath of the death of Steve Jobs. Apple Inc. has been expected to fare badly when Jobs finally disappeared, but the latest iProduct that Jobs lived to see defied gloomy predictions and is now emerging as probably the greatest of 'em all in terms of sales.

At a time when rumors are rife that Google and Samsung's imminent smartphone Nexus Prime or Galaxy Nexus is going to be launched on Oct. 27 after its scheduled launch on Tuesday got postponed, new reports have emerged stating that it has passed through the FCC earning approval for a world capable version.

The iPhone 4S, which was labelled to be a flop phone by many, has shattered all preorder records of previous iPhone.

Recently announced by Apple, the iPhone 4S will be launched within the next two weeks, while Samsung launched its Galaxy S2 in U.S. markets sometime in the middle of September. The Motorola Droid Bionic was also released around the same time. Here is a comparison of the three phones - on the basis of specs, features and price.

Apple's new iPhone 4S has quickly become the latest and greatest among iPhone users, as carrier AT&T received more than 200,000 pre-orders for the device within the first 12 hours.