Thousands of tech faithful buy iPhones at launch
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Thousands of U.S. gadget fans made an orderly pilgrimage to stores on Friday to be among the first buyers of Apple's iPhone, a music- and video-playing device expected to reshape the mobile industry.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The professional critics have offered their iPhone opinions, giving Apple&#39;s new cellphone mostly a thumbs up. Now it&#39;s time for thousands of consumers to weigh in after they bought iPhones this weekend. The gadget went on sale starting Friday night at nearly 2,000 Apple and AT&amp;T stores after six months of anticipation. USA TODAY heard from more than 350 people who said they bought an iPhone. Based on their first weekend&#39;s experience, virtually all of them said they&#39;d do it again.
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Some of those in line for the much-coveted Apple handset are doing so to put the device on eBay and donate the proceeds to charity.
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Love it or hate it, the frenzy around Apple's iPhone is forcing consumers to think about what they want from a mobile device.
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Major handset vendors have much more to gain than to lose from the buzz Apple Inc's coveted iPhone will create when it arrives in European stores for the key shopping season ahead of Christmas.
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Apple said yesterday it has sold a million of its popular iPhones, reassuring investors who were worried that last week's price cut meant sales had been weak.
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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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Apple Inc.'s  iPhone hits  store shelves on Friday in a consumer spectacle that has  whipped gadget fans into a frenzy over a device that challenges  business as usual in the mobile phone industry.
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Over the weekend following the iPhone's Friday night debut, Apple Inc. sold more than half a million of popular devices, according to PiperJaffray's Gene Munster.
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Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices, a survey out today says, and Apple and AT&amp;T are luring customers from rivals as a result.
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About 2 percent of people who bought  the keenly-awaited iPhone, launched on Friday by Apple Inc.  , have been experiencing delays in activating their  service, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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Many people who lined up to be the first buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPhone made good on promises to try to flip the gadgets online at inflated prices, but a quick buck appeared out of reach for many.
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The Apple iPhone, the most-anticipated gadget debut in years, went on sale Friday in the eastern United States, ending months of waiting for diehard Apple fans and signaling the start of what could be the company's biggest test yet.
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Tech-heads camped overnight outside Apple electronics stores in US cities aiming to be the first to own an iPhone, marketed as the coolest gadget on the planet, when they go on sale Friday.
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When Apple Inc. launches the iPhone on Friday, it is set to get a jump on its competitors and spark a flurry of new phone designs, regardless of how well the device actually sells.
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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 expected to reshape the mobile industry.
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With the iPhone launch still over a week away, mobile market research firm M:Metrics reports that 19 million Americans have shown strong interest in purchasing the device.