Here are your daily Apple rumors and news items for Tuesday: Sprint iPhone 4S
Not Selling Out: The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPhone 4S, out on Friday, already is
selling well. More than 1 million consumers pre-ordered the device within its
first 24 hours of availability, crushing the previous record of 600,000
pre-orders held by the iPhone 4. Swift as sales have been, though, the iPhone 4S
pre-orders havent sold out everywhere . According to a report at All Things
Digital , three of the four new iPhone models still are available for pre-order
through Sprint (NYSE: S ). The first-tier iPhone 4S, a $199 machine with a 16GB
flash drive, has sold out at the third-place telecom, but the 32GB and 64GB
models as well as the new 8GB iPhone 4 still are available. This is by no
means a sign that the iPhone wont be a popular device for the company, but it is
surprising that the only telecom offering unlimited data plans for the iPhone
isnt selling out of its pre-order allotments faster than Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) or
AT&T (NYSE: T ). AT&T Bulks up Android Support: AT&T coasted on its exclusive
support of the iPhone for years. Since Apple started spreading the wealth to
Verizon and now Sprint, however, AT&T has been bulking up its support of phones
running Google s (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android operating system. A Tuesday report at
Apple Insider detailed an announcement from AT&T that it will support Motorola s
(NYSE: MMI ) Atrix 2, Samsung s (PINK: SSNLF ) Captivate Glide and DoubleTime,
Pantechs Pocket, and its own Avail phone. This brings the total number of
Android phones on AT&Ts network to 19 far more than the 12 Android devices the
company originally planned to support in 2011. Facebook iPad App Released: Its a
few days late, but its finally out. Months after the worlds most profitable
social network said it would release an official app for Apples iPad, Facebook
finally has released its tablet specific app . What held up the apps release? No
one knows for sure, but former Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen, who left the
company for Google in September, indicated that inter-company conflicts were the
source of the problem . Apple and Facebook have clashed over integration with
each others products in the past, particularly over Apples failed iTunes social
network Ping . As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position
in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
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