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At Apple's iPhone 4 press briefing last Friday, there was mention made of how many iPhone 4 devices it had sold since launch: about 3 million.

In its quarterly report Tuesday, Apple said it had sold a total of 8.4 million iPhones between April 1 and June 26. The number was a little weaker than estimates, but it includes only the first two days of iPhone 4 sales. Total iPhone sales were up 61%. Compare that to research outfit IDC which says the smartphone market grew 38% y/y during June quarter.

On the company's earnings call, COO Tim Cook said that Apple is making iPhone 4s and iPads as fast is it can:

“Both of these products, the iPad and specifically the iPhone 4 we had backlog at the end of last quarter that we were not able to fill and currently we are still selling both of those products as best as we can make them. So, we still are quoting longer lead times than we like, and we are working around the clock to try to get supply and demand in balance. In the scheme of things, it is a good problem to have.

The iPhone, we just started ramping it in June. We had very limited days last quarter. As you know, we launched on the 24, and the quarter ended on 26. And we were still ramping and increasing volume, but again there is not a specific thing that is overwhelming. It is just a matter of getting up the ramp.

Cook also said the company isn’t seeing any major effect from the antenna problems reported recently:

The returns that we have seen on the iPhone 4 are less than the iPhone 3GS that Pete shared in the presentation of products, and the ones for this specific issue are extremely small.

The iPhone is available on 154 carriers in 88 countries.

Apple earned $3.25 billion on $15.7 billion of revenue in the June quarter.

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