“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.” – Steve Jobs

While benchmarks have shown that Apple’s iPhone 3GS is so fast that it outpaces Palm’s self-proclaimed fastest smartphone, the Pre, also sales of the new iPhone model are breaking speed records: Apple said Monday that it sold over one million iPhone 3GS models during the first three days the handset was on the market.

The new iPhone OS 3.0 was downloaded by six million customers in the first five days since its release.

Back in 2007, the first million iPhones were sold in 74 days, or approximately two and a half months, while last year’s iPhone 3G launch saw a million devices sold in just the first three days. Considering that sales figures reported Monday do not include sales of the newly-priced $99 8GB iPhone 3G, it’s likely this past weekend represented the Apple’s most successful product launch.