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Related Topics Technology » Media » iPad » Related Video Apple wins new fans with iPhone 4s Fri, Oct 14 2011 A customer uses his new iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple's flagship retail store in San Francisco, California October 14, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith By Kate Holton and Poornima Gupta LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO | Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:17pm EDT LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones. Nearly one in four people who thronged Apple stores from Tokyo to San Francisco told Reuters on Friday they were ditching BlackBerries, discarding Nokias or even giving up Google Android-based phones, hoping for something better. The majority of the 127 iPhone 4S buyers polled informally by Reuters in the United States, Japan, Australia, France, Germany and Britain were Apple diehards upgrading their devices. But 28 claimed they were making a switch, with some saying they were disillusioned by Research in Motion after this week's global BlackBerry outage that enraged millions. "I was with Nokia before, but I guess they've sort of lost their way in terms of the interface and everything. Plus, most of my friends use Apple," Myles Geissler, 25, said while shopping for an iPhone in Sydney. Apple had already pre-sold over a million during the first day it went live on the Internet -- a week before it hit stores selves in seven countries on Friday. RIM's BlackBerry and smartphones by manufacturers such as Nokia -- which abandoned Symbian and will this year unveil devices based on Microsoft software -- have been losing ground to the iPhone, which is facing a serious threat only from Android phones. 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