Apple Inc.'s new iPhone went on sale  on 7/11 to waiting buyers worldwide, many of whom lined up for hours for the morning launch," Peter Svensson reports for The Associated Press.

"At the flagship Apple store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a line of hundreds encircled the block ahead of the 8 a.m. opening. Many of them were already owners of the first iPhone, suggesting that Apple is preaching to the choir with the new model, which updates the one launched a year ago by speeding up Internet access [3G] and adding a [GPS] navigation chip," Svensson reports.

"Outside an AT&T store in Atlanta, more than hundred people had lined up... By Friday morning, the line at the Softbank Corp. store in Tokyo had grown to more than 1,000 people, and the phone quickly sold out... The phone went on sale first in New Zealand, where hundreds of people lined up outside stores in New Zealand's main cities to snap it up right at midnight... In Germany, T-Mobile stores reported brisk sales, particularly in Munich, Hamburg and Cologne, said spokeswoman Marion Kessing," Svensson reports.

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