AT&T: 1 million Apple iPhone requests to date

Talk about a pre-season favorite: AT&T today said it had received close to 1 million requests for Apple’s iPhone – and it won’t even be selling it. Cingular, which is the largest wireless service in the U.S. and is in the process of being rebranded as AT&T, will be the exclusive home of Apple’s new music-playing device when it comes out in June. Cingular is not taking advance orders for the iPhone, but it has set up a section on its Web site inviting visitors to leave their e-mail addresses to receive information about the phone when it is released. Apple has said it could eventually sell 10 million iPhones, which play music and video and have a touch screen and it certainly seems like they will be off to a flying start. The version with 4GB of flash memory will cost $499, while the 8GB version will cost $599.