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IPhone 4S Tops Sales Charts, Samsung Surges Too

The iPhone 4S was the top-selling smartphone at Verizon, Sprint and AT&T in November, according to Canaccord Genuity, as Apple‘s handsets fight off tough competition from Samsung.

Apple’s 4S topped the list at all major carriers offering the device in the U.S., while the Samsung Galaxy S2 took the crown at T-Mobile. The S2 also came in second at Sprint and AT&T, sandwiched in between Apple’s 4S and iPhone 4, while the Motorola Droid Razr and HTC Rezound rounded out the top three at Verizon, where the S2 is not sold.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has had the top-selling smartphone at AT&T and Verizon every month this year, and continued that pattern at Sprint in October when the 4S became available on the carrier. Still, Samsung’s smartphones have been challenging Apple every step of the way.

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AT&T Says IPhone to Help Push Smartphone Sales to Record

AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. wireless operator, said smartphone sales in the fourth quarter are likely to hit a record, driven by devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone.

The company said it sold 6 million smartphones in the first two months of the period, compared with the previous quarterly record of 6.1 million in the third quarter of 2010. Since December is traditionally one of the strongest months for sales, AT&T said it expects to push past the previous mark.

“We expected this to be one of our strong smartphone sales quarters ever,” John Stephens, the company’s chief financial officer, said today at a UBS AG conference in New York. “What we didn’t know was that we would nearly break our smartphone sales record in just the first two months of the quarter.”

AT&T, the first operator to offer the Apple phone in the U.S., sells the latest model, the iPhone 4S, and the older iPhone 3GS, which is free with a two-year service contract. It also offers devices that run on Google Inc.’s Android operating system from Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

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