Monday, November 12, 2007

iPhone launches in UK

<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2214735,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">Apple's iPhone debuts in the UK,</A> but with less fanfare than in the United States. Only a handful of people bothered to sleep outside Apple's flagship UK store on London's Regent Street last night, awaiting the moment when at 6.02 p.m. the long-awaited iPhone would go on sale.

Apple has struck a similar deal to the AT&T deal in the United States with UK operator 02 (hence the 6.02 p.m. launch time). An O2 spokesman said the operator will have 430 stores selling the phone, in addition to the retailer Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores. All together about 1,300 retail outlets will be selling the iPhone. More than 1.4 million iPhones have already been sold in the United States.

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