Carphone Warehouse expects 10,000 iPhone sales on day one

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Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is expecting to sell as many as 10,000 iPhone handsets, when Apple's smartphone goes on sale in the UK next week.

The touch-screen mobile phone, which combines iPod-like audio and video playback with a camera, Wi-Fi support and a web browser, will be sold through the retail stores of O2, the exclusive UK mobile network carrier for the phone, as well as through Carphone Warehouse and Apple retail and online stores from 9 November.

Apple has not issued any specific figures for UK sales since its chief executive Steve Jobs announced the launch plans for Britain but Darren Gardner, head of wireless UK at Carphone Warehouse, said with around 800 stores across the country, Carphone could hope to sell up to 10,000 in the first day.

The phone will go on sale at 6 pm next Friday and the Carphone stores are set to stay open for four hours to meet consumer demand.

"We will hope to represent a big share of what is sold," he told reporters.

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