iPhone 4S accounts for 89 percent of iPhone sales

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89 percent of all new buyers are choosing the iPhone 4S over older iPhone models, that according a new study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP).

The iPhone 4S debuted last year October, and has seen strong sales which have helped Apple show record financial profits for the last quarter of 2011. Apple also regained the title of largest smartphone maker from rival Samsung.

The iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, which are available at discounted prices or even for free to contract customers in the U.S., accounted for just 7 percent and 4 percent of sales respectively.

The iPhone 4S 16GB was the most popular model, accounting for 45 percent of iPhone 4S sales. This was followed by the 32GB model (34 percent) and the 64GB model (21 percent).

“An amazing 19 percent of all iPhone buyers upgraded from the iPhone 4, a phone barely a year old at the time of the launch,” Mike Levin, CIRP’s co-founder, told AllThingsD. “Forty-two percent of iPhone buyers broke existing carrier contracts to get the new iPhone 4S. And 19 percent of these iPhone 4S buyers sold their old iPhone in the secondary market.”

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Tags: Apple, CIRP, Mike Levin, samsung