Apple's blew away analyst expectations by moving more than one million iPhone 3G S handsets over the weekend. While the lines at Apple stores weren't quite what the press had expected, both Apple and AT&T had been pushing for customers to order their phones online, a fact that may have thrown a wrench in some analysts estimates.

Gene Munster, for one, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, estimated some 750,000 handsets over the weekend--a marked drop from the one million iPhone 3Gs sold at last year's launch, but still roughly a 50-percent increase in his initially estimates. Still, despite increased competition from new phones like the Palm Pre and the continued sale of Apple's own iPhone 3G (now a tempting $99), the new phone sold rather briskly.

Also, interesting, the news was accompanied by a quote from the company's M.I.A. CEO, Steve Jobs, stating confidently,

Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple's revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.