After selling more than 13 million iPhone 6s models in the first weekend following the September 25 launch, Apple today made the new devices available in more than 40 second-wave markets around the world.
We shared our impressions of Apple’s new toys after playing with them for three days, and also took a closer look at whether they might, in fact, be secretly waterproof. Despite the phones’ strong launch and record sales — thanks partly to bringing China forward into the first wave of launch markets this year — investors’ initial response was best summed up as a collective “Meh.”
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Here’s the full list of second-wave markets where the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are available from today:
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- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- Greece
- Greenland
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Maldives
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
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