iPhone - hysteria in photos

At five o'clock on Monday morning, 109 hours before the start of iPhone sales in the US, 43-year-old Greg Packer, armed with a folding chair and a portable fridge with food and drinks, took the line for the “glass cube” - the flagship Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York (in the picture - the store at dusk). Road worker from Huntington, New York, Packer is a professional “first turn-up,” more than 100 times the first in line at high-profile events and meetings with celebrities. Following Packer across the Americas from the ocean to the ocean, thousands of people lined up at the Apple and AT & T stores.


The same Greg Packer - he was first in meetings with Mariah Carey, Ringo Starr, Bill Clinton and George Bush - and wants to be the first to meet the rising star gadget

The brothers Gabi and Paul Galie are in line at the Apple store in Charlotte, North Carolina

Nada shows a fake iPhone bought in Montreal, Quebec.

Spiderman in line at 5th Avenue in Manhattan

On the same 5th Avenue - the queue in the lingering rain

Another Apple fan from the same lineup in Manhattan

After long hours of waiting, I want to warm up.

Queue in Palo Alto, California

Downtown San Francisco. Eric Asher records music in line for the iPhone.

Joggers run past the line at the Apple Store on Avenue Michigan in Chicago

Line at 3rd Street in Santa Monica, California

On the same boardwalk in Santa Monica

13-year-old Patrick is in line for his iPhone in Palo Alto, California

The guys set up a tent to be the first to buy an iPhone in Little Rock, Arkansas

A boy and his mother spent the night in front of a store in Pasadena, California

And rain again on 5th Avenue