The iPhone 3G seems to be the iPhone that everyone always wanted, at least if the number of iPhones now being sold is any indication. Foxconn, the company that produces the iPhone for Apple, has ramped up production and is now producing 800,000 iPhones a week!

Early estimates suggested that Apple would originally shift 25 million iPhones a year, but if they can sustain the current rate of sales, they’ll be on target to shift 40 million. This should, of course, be put into context of the overall mobile phone market, with over 1 billion phones being sold each year, with Nokia selling 435 million of them. However, 40 million sales of just one product that’s not even two years old yet is a tremendous achievement, and shows that Apple truly has broken into the mobile marketplace, and isn’t about to crash and burn like some early forecasts predicted.

[Source: TechCrunch]