iPhone 5 Sales Helped Drive September Retail Bump

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The latest version of the Apple iPhone contributed in September to a 1.1 percent jump in U.S. retail sales. Some economists cautioned that the sales bump in September could be reversed in the following month.

Here is a look at how retail sales performed each time Apple introduced a new version of the iPhone and also in the month following each release.

Release	Total retail sales in release Month	Total retail sales in following month
iPhone 3G, released July 11,2008	Sales fell -0.5 percent	Sales fell -0.4 percent
iPhone 3GS, released June 19, 2009	Sales rose 1.2 percent	Sales rose 0.3 percent
iPhone 4, released June 24, 2010	Sales fell -0.4 percent	Sales rose 0. 3 percent
iPhone4S, released Oct. 14, 2011	Sales rose 1.0 percent	Sales rose 0.5 percent
iPhone 5, released Sept. 21, 2012	Sales rose 1.1 percent	Report due on Nov. 14.

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