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The two iPhone models sold more than RIM's Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio and any individual smartphone model from Motorola, Nokia or Samsung, accounting for 1.8% of all US mobile handset sales during the period.

Sales equaled those of LG Electronics' Chocolate, the most popular feature phone on the US market, iSuppli says.

"While iSuppli has not collected historical information on this topic, it's

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likely that the speed of the iPhone's rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market. Apple achieved this in the face of numerous, well-entrenched competitors," the group says.

The figures reveal that most buyers of iPhones in the US in July were male, under 35 and had a degree. A quarter of those who bought an iPhone switched to operator AT&T, which has an exclusive service agreement for the iPhone in the US.

iSuppli gathers its data through a consumer survey of 2 million US participants that it carries out online once a month.

The company went on to reiterate its forecast that Apple would sell 4.5 million iPhones in 2007, rising to more than 30 million in 2011.

The iPhone goes on sale in Europe later this year.

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