Apple iPhone to Hit Stores, Lines Grow

Hundreds of gadget fans, or their paid stand-ins, lined up on Friday to be among the first buyers of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, a music and video playing phone that seeks to reshape the mobile industry.

Just after dawn, nearly 200 people were waiting outside Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York City for the device, which was not to go on sale for another 12 hours. The iPhone has whipped technology lovers into a frenzy usually reserved for rock stars.

The iPhone melds a phone, Web browser and media player. It received rave reviews from U.S. technology gurus who praised the gadget as a "breakthrough" device that is "beautiful."

Reuters