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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âAppleâs iPhone could emerge as the most successful product introduction of the 21st century, new research suggests.â  Conducted by Lightspeed Research, âthe research findings are staggering,â reports Jonny Evans (Macworld). âNearly 90 percentâ of the respondents had heard about iPhone, and 32% of those who didnât already own one intend to purchase one. In a separate survey, Lightspeed Research also learned that ânearly half of those who would like to own an iPhone stated that the benefits of having music, movie, internet and wireless all in one was the top reason.â
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Shoppers are expected to snap up 1 million or more iPhones when the sophisticated cell goes on sale Friday. But Hollywood and other entertainment providers will be looking for more than sales: They&#39;ll be watching for signs of the next mobile revolution. Video on cellphones is not new. But the new iPhone ($499 for the 4GB model, $599 for 8GB) is far more advanced than predecessors.
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Opening weekend sales of iPhones may have reached 500,000, according to an analyst's estimate, as Apple's much anticipated product saw sales that lived up to and even exceeded its hype.
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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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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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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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Older gadget geeks fueled an Apple  iPhone launch frenzy on Friday by taking a prominent place on  growing lines across the United States -- or paying  20-somethings to do it for them.
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Apple Inc.&#39;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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It's sort of a mushy number, but Apple said yesterday 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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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Hundreds of gadget fans, or their paid stand-ins, lined up on Friday to be among 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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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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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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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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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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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.