Id say that these stats are hardly a suprise, I doubt many people in the states used their mobiles to look at the internet pre iphone because of the lack of 3g phones. The iphone has created a niceh because its browsing experience is that much better than the mainstream handsets available in the states, also apples Marketing muscle most likely has opened the general public’s eyes to the internet on a mobile.

(Sorry this probably doesnt make uch sense, gonna hit the sack now!)

Also, the iPhone failed to meet O2’s expectations, we already mentioned the iPhone’s “laggard” UK sales(http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/28/apple-facing-laggard-o2-iphone-sales-in-uk.html), but the real reason for the lagging sales may have more to do with the fact that Brits are averse to paying more than a few pounds for a new phone with new contract.

and there are not sale many iphones in Europe >
So, how did O2 fare in their initial iPhone sales? Not as well as they would have liked, apparently. “Slow” would be one way to describe iPhone sales in the UK. The Register reports that initial iPhones sales figures have yet to break 30,000 units – with 26,500 iPhones having been activated in the two weeks since the iPhone’s launch on O2. Carphone Warehouse reported sales of 11,000 units over the launch weekend. And, an unnamed source told AppleInsider that the premier Apple Store in the UK, located on Regent Street, was still working to sell the entirety of their initial iPhone stock – which was shipped to the store prior to the iPhone’s UK launch on November 9. The Regent Street Apple Store has reportedly been selling a laggardly 100 iPhone handsets per day (compare that with the LG Shine that effectively sold more than 10,000 units worldwide for every day it was on the market this past year). http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/11/12/apple-iphone-launch-full-of-fail/