Apple iPhone X sells out in minutes in South Korea
Apple has sold out the in South Korea LG and Samsung's home market. South Korea's biggest carrier SK Telecom has confirmed that it has exhausted all of its iPhone X pre-order stock in 3 minutes in contrast, the initial iPhone 7 stock took 20 minutes a year ago. SK Telecom has said to Korea's Yonhap News Agency that it had less than half as many iPhone X units as it had iPhone 8 ones and that the silver iPhone X took about 1 minute to sell out in pre-orders. Industry analysts estimate that around 150,000 iPhone X units were allocated to South Korea. According to analysts the iPhone 8 series had around 60-70% of the interest of the iPhone 7 series probably due to the iPhone X's arrival to market. It seems interest in the iPhone X is strong in South Korea, despite the smartphone carrying a big price premium compared to its Stateside price Korean buyers are charged around $1,237 for the base 64GB model, compared to the $999 US price.