iPhone X Sells Out in South Korea in Just Three Minutes

South Korea’s mobile carriers said Friday their first preorder batch of Apple’s latest iPhone X were sold out in just three minutes after being launched, apparently due to supply shortages.

According to a new report from Cult of Mac, 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.

Other carriers including KT Corp and LG Uplus also say they sold out of their pre-order iPhone X handsets within minutes. “The initial inventories were … too low to meet the demand,” an official from one mobile carrier said.

The carrier told Yonhap News that the number of units available for the iPhone X was less than half of the iPhone 8 which went on sale earlier this month. The carrier didn’t reveal the number of units which were available ahead of pre-orders, but industry watchers estimate that almost 150,000 units went up for sale, which was lower than 200,000 iPhone 8 units launched a few weeks back.

The second batch of the iPhone X was also sold out in less than two minutes later in the morning.

Considering the price $1319 CAD of the iPhone X, it would have been expected that Samsung’s home ground of South Korea would display more enthusiasm towards the Galaxy Note 8 series of devices.

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