“Apple fans queued through the night in Germany and Britain to be among the first in Europe to buy an iPhone, the must-have gadget that is set to shake up the mobile industry,” Nicola Leske and Kate Holton report for Reuters.
“Over 10,000 iPhones were sold by Friday afternoon in Germany, a T-Mobile spokeswoman said, after it went on sale at midnight in a Deutsche Telekom shop in Cologne,” Leske and Holton report.
“In Britain, fans had to wait until 1800 GMT before the music-playing, Web-browsing phone went on sale at stores from Apple, mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse and mobile operator O2,” Leske and Holton report. “The queue outside central London’s main Apple store stretched around the corner and long lines also formed in the city’s financial area.”
“The phone will go on sale in France at the end of the month,” Leske and Holton report.
Full article here.
MarketWatch reports, “Customers bought the phones via the company’s shops or on the internet, T-Mobile said.”
“Sales also started in the U.K. Friday, with Europe’s largest mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse PLC (CPW.LN) expecting to sell 10,000 iPhones on the first day of sale in the U.K.,” MarketWatch reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]