It was a cold and wet night in Cologne, Germany, but over 300 customers lined up outside the T-Mobile store waiting for 00:01 CET on Friday 11/9 for the premiere of the Apple’s phone in Europe.
Nicola Leske reports for Reuters, “Hundreds of Apple (AAPL.O) fans braved rain and wind in the German city of Cologne early Friday morning to be among the first in Europe to get their hands on the coveted iPhone.”
“A few hundred people lined up at a Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) shop, where its mobile communications unit T-Mobile allowed customers to buy the music-playing and Web-browsing device at midnight before the phone goes on sale across the country later in the day,” Leske reports.
“When iPhones went on sale on June 29 in the United States, Apple fans endured heat and downpours to queue for days to buy what has been dubbed the “Jesus Phone” by Internet bloggers who see it as the ultimate mobile device,” Leske reports.
“The iPhone goes on sale in the UK at 1800 GMT on Friday. In France it will be available at the end of the month,” Leske reports.
Full article here.
The Italian language Website setteB.IT was there, snapping photos:
See them here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fabio” for the heads up.]