Apple’s iPad 2 was released on Friday and apparently sold out of every store in the United States by Saturday. That’s what Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray learned from a survey he did of retailers across the country this weekend, and what’s being confirmed by Deutsche Bank analysts this morning. Munster estimates something between 400,000 and 500,000 iPad 2?s were sold this weekend as compared to 300,000 original iPads sold on the opening weekend last year. Other analysts are putting the initial sales closer to one million iPad 2?s sold. Munster’s team called several retailers such as Apple stores, Target, Best Buy, and found no stock of iPad 2 anywhere they checked. They also walked up and down lines in New York City and Minneapolis and interviewed 236 potential buyers to profile was who buying the new tablet. In addition to large sales to already existing iPad owners, they found about 70% of the people in those lines were getting their first tablet. Out of all the buyers, 47% of them got a 3G model and 41% bought the 32 GB iPad 2, an increase from 32% who had gotten the 32 GB first-generation iPad, and that 64 GB models also sold better than before. This may have been driven by availability: Fortune reports that many Apple stores ran out of 16 GB iPads first and 32 GB models. “iPads are sold out across virtually all channels,” said Munster, adding that his team was “unable to find any availability.” Munster now believes that sales could exceed his earlier prediction of 5.5 million iPad 2?s in this quarter. DeutscheBank did its own survey this morning and found exactly zero iPad 2?s at any of the 50 Apple retail stores, 20 Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores as well as AT&T and Verizon stores they called. Wedbush Securities, a financial research firm, estimates even higher total sales than Munster. What do you think of all the iPad 2 hype? Did you manage to get one yourself? Share your thoughts and comments in the section below! As usual, stay tuned for more tech news and info by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed. [Source: Fortune] Authors:

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