Apple generally makes use of public relations opportunities like the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) to tout big sales of its new products, as it did iPhone 4 and iPad.

According to Apple’s claims, it had sold 1.7 million units of the iPhone 4 in the first weekend of its launch, and 300,000 units of of the iPad in just 24 hours of its release.

But, the company didn’t tout Verizon iPhone’s weekend sales, which suggest that the product really failed to attract expected number of customers.

Verizon started accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 4 on February 3, with sales started on February 10. Shorter-than-expected lines were noticed at the Verizon and Apple stores for the handset.

Analyst Daniel Ernst, of Hudson Square Research, said the longest line of potential iPhone customers he saw before stores had merely 35 people.

Before the iPhone’s availability via Verizon, the handset was available only through AT&T, thanks to an exclusive deal between the manufacturer and the carrier. But, AT&T’s allegedly poor network service forced Apple to launch its flagship phone via Verizon also.