The long-awaited Apple Watch will begin shipping in April, Apple confirmed today.
CEO Tim Cook made the announcement during a Tuesday earnings call with investors. He did not provide an exact shipping date, or provide details on pricing. Cupertino has said that the Apple Watch will start at $349, but it comes in three versions, and the high-end luxury "Edition" watch will likely retail for much more.
Not surprisingly, meanwhile, Apple fans were very eager to get their hands on larger iPhones. Cupertino announced today that it sold a record 74.5 million iPhones during the fourth quarter.
That's almost double the 39.3 million iPhones the company sold in the third quarter, though buyers were undoubltedly waiting for the fall launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple's latest large-screen smartphones.
"We'd like to thank our customers for an incredible quarter, which saw demand for Apple products soar to an all-time high," Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, said in a statement. "Our revenue grew 30 percent over last year to $74.6 billion, and the execution by our teams to achieve these results was simply phenomenal."
After a bit of a slump in 2014, Apple sold 21.5 million iPads over the holiday quarter, up from 12.3 million in the previous quarter, though that was still lower than the 26 million it sold in the year-ago quarter.
Mac sales were relatively unchanged from the third quarter at 5.5 million, though that's up from the 4.8 million it sold during the same time period last year.
Stay tuned for more details from Apple's 5 p.m. ET conference call.
For more, see PCMag's review of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, as well as the iPad Air 2.