Thousands of tech faithful buy iPhones at launch
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Thousands of U.S. gadget  fans made an orderly pilgrimage to stores on Friday to be among  the first buyers of Apple&#39;s iPhone, a music- and video-playing  device expected to reshape the mobile industry.
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Speculators return them to stores Some were boasting from their camps outside Apple stores before the iPhone rush began, of how much money they would make on eBay auctions; and apparently, at least one optimist let it be known that $2,000 would be needed to buy a $600 iPhone.â¦
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Customers lined up in droves, some for days, but plenty of the phones are still available for the taking.Photos: Big Apple gets the iPhone
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Apple's offer of a $100 credit to early iPhone buyers has restored faith in the company for most customers.
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It's sort of a mushy number, but Apple said Monday that it thinks 250,000 of the 1.4 million iPhones sold so far were bought with the intention of unlocking them from AT&#38;T's network.
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A new study outlines exactly who the potential buyers are for the iPhone--it's a big audience.
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On the eve of the day of reckoning for the most-hyped gadget in recent memory, eager customers lined up Thursday, a few even braving torrential rain, to be among the first to get their hands on the coveted new cell phone from Apple Inc.
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No true fans of the coveted  iPhone could be found standing in line outside Apple&#39;s flagship  store here a full day before the gadgets go on sale. There were  just exploiters, exploited and a few clowns.
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Fans think the wait was worth it as they get their hands on the new iPhone, the BBC's Laura Smith-Spark reports.
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More than a quarter of people who bought Apple Inc's  iPhone are using them on wireless networks other than AT&T's, the exclusive iPhone carrier in the U.S., a "stunning" number that will pressure the company's business model, an analyst said on Monday.
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Major handset vendors have much more  to gain than to lose from the buzz Apple Inc&#39;s  coveted  iPhone will create when it arrives in European stores for the  key shopping season ahead of Christmas.
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Apple Inc.'s  iPhone may be too expensive for most Americans, but the much-hyped device is expected to help AT&T Inc.  win quality customers and drive shoppers into its stores.
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Within hours of the first iPhones going on sale, fans scrambled to be the first to discover what makes the devices tick, posting photos and videos of disassembled phones on the Internet.
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The future of Apple&#39;s much ballyhooed and eagerly anticipated iPhones is finally in the hands of devotees of the iconic company&#39;s culture-altering gadgets.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Hundreds of gadget fans,  or their paid stand-ins, lined up on Friday to be the first  buyers of Apple Inc.'s  iPhone, a music and video  playing phone that seeks to reshape the mobile industry.
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For many who bought Apple's new iPhone, members of the early-adopter clan, money is not the issue. Though some are angered by Apple's sudden price drop, some who snapped up the first iPhones say their gratification is being among the first owners of something cool and possibly revolutionary.
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The iPhone has so many devotees already that people like it without having touched it, a survey finds.