The first Apple iPhone 3G for sale in Belgium arrives in style, with bodyguards, at a Mobistar center in Brussels late Thursday. The first phone was sold at a minute past midnight. (Aude Vanlathem AFP/Getty Images)
Models display the new iPhones in Hong Kong during their first day of release. As Apple rolled out its newest iPhone in Asia, dealers and buyers said it was only a matter of time -- maybe as little as a few days -- before the devices hit the region’s thriving underground marketplace. (Kin Cheung / Associated Press)
Customers brave long lines inside the Apple Store on Regent Street in London for the launch of the new Apple iPhone. (Sang Tan / Associated Press)
Michael Slater, center, celebrates being the first customer to activate his new Apple iPhone 3G handset at the Apple Store on Regent Street in London. (Sang Tan / Associated Press)
Zurich might have been the place to avoid opening-day mania, as the iPhones appear to outnumber customers as sales begin in the Swiss city. (Alessandro Della Bella / EPA)
At every Apple Store someone had to be first. At the location on Fifth Avenue in New York, customer No. 1 was David Yoo, 24. His first call? To Mom. (Don Emmert AFP/Getty Images)
Another location, another long, winding line. Here in Miami, at least, customers could enjoy clear skies. (Alan Diaz / Associated Press)
For many customers, including these guys in Dallas, the wait started overnight. (Rick Gershon / Getty Images)
Jason Halverson passes the time surfing the Web while waiting with more than 200 other customers for sales to start at the Apple Store at the Grove in Los Angeles. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Lari Wolf of Beverly Hills was prepared for a long wait to buy a new iPhone at the Grove in Los Angeles. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Just in time: A worker delivers a cart load of 3G iPhones to the Apple Store at the Grove just before they went on sale. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Their destination in sight, customers queue up at the Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. (Jerome Adamstein / Los Angeles Times)
By 8:30 a.m. the long line outside the Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica stretched down 3rd to Wilshire Boulevard and west toward the ocean. (Jerome Adamstein / Los Angeles Times)
The smile and the T-shirt say it all as Kevin Edwards is the first to exit the Apple Store in Palo Alto with a new iPhone 3G. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)
