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iPhone 5 racks up two million pre-orders

24-hour pre-order total breaks the record of one million set by the iPhone 4S

Apple has revealed that the iPhone 5 received two million pre-orders in 24 hours, making it the most pre-ordered mobile phone of all time. It has smashed the previous record, held by the iPhone 4S, which got “just” one million pre-orders in its initial 24 hours.

The iPhone 5 will go on sale this Friday, 21 September, at 8am. The 16GB model will cost £530, the 32GB model £600 and the 64GB model £700.

Read our in depth iPhone 5 review.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home