iPhone 5s Sales: Apple Inc. (APPL) Projected to Sell 5 to 8 Million iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s Units During September 20 Opening Weekend, Says Analysts

By Michael Oleaga / m.oleaga@latinospost.com (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Sep 20, 2013 05:51 PM EDT

Tags Apple, iPhone, iphone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C

Apple is projected to sell more iPhones during its launch weekend than the iPhone 5, however, not by much.

According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, he estimated Apple to sell five million to six million units of the iPhone worldwide as of the Sept. 20 launch to Sept. 22.

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The aforementioned iPhone figures by Munster are for both iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s device.

To be specific, Munster expects the Cupertino-based organization to sell roughly 2.5 million units of the iPhone 5s while the iPhone 5c could reach three million units. The three million units for the iPhone 5c, however, include one million units based on its pre-orders.

"We believe that Apple will likely sell all of the [iPhone 5s] they will produce for launch weekend," wrote Munster. "Based on Apple not taking online pre-orders for the 5S, which we believe was to avoid customers immediately seeing delivery times for 2+ weeks out, we believe the 5S is more production-constrained than the iPhone 5 was at launch, likely due to the addition of the finger print technology."

Meanwhile, BTIG Wireless Analyst Walter Piecyk tweeted at least six million units of the iPhones will be sold during the opening weekend. Piecyk credited the increased sales to China's smartphone market.

As Apple Insider reported, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo estimated six to eight million iPhones will be sold.

In September 2012, the iPhone 5's opening weekend resulted in five million units sold, which was below the estimates of 10 million units.

The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c launched across Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States.