Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were met with long lines full of fans when they went on sale Friday throughout the U.S.
Retail stores began selling the devices at 8 a.m. local time for lines that are longer than have been in recent years, according to TechCrunch. The lines at Apple's store on Fifth Avenue extended for at least five city blocks and are estimated to include over 1,000 people.
The line outside the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant's store at Toronto's Eastern Centre stretched around the whole upper floor of the mall where the store stands.
The U.S. was only one of many countries to begin selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus on Friday, with others including the U.K., Canada, Puerto Rico, France, Germany Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, The Detroit News reported.
The first to get in line for the new devices at the Somerset Collection mall in Troy, Michigan was 20-year-old Drew LaVigne of Lake Orion, who began his wait with his friends on Thursday at 9 p.m. LaVgine received his phone after waiting on line for eleven hours.
"I waited for it because pretty much every part is new and better. There's a bigger screen and bigger resolution," he said. "I love it. It's such a beautiful phone. And it's so much thinner than the last one."
22-year-old Elias Kartout, a Belgian student who waited for his phone in a line in Paris, said he hasn't decided yet on if he will buy the iPhone 6 or the 6 Plus, The Detroit News reported.
"I'll decide once I've tried it to see how it feels in my hand," Kartout said.
24-year-old Lucy Woika said she was waiting outside Apple's store in San Francisco Union Square since "about 7" Friday morning, USA Today reported.
"If you're going to get new technology, you might as well get it when it first comes out?" Woika said. "Then there's time to see what it can do."
The line outside the Apple Store in Palm Desert, Calif. included over 300 people, one of which was 23-year-old Megan Lanning, who had been waiting in line since 8 p.m. Thursday night and was paid by her uncle to wait in line for him.
"It's fun," Lanning said. "Until about 3 a.m. Then everyone gets dead tired."
The release of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus follows one week after Apple began accepting pre-orders for the devices, receiving 4 million in the first 24 hours, USA Today reported. Some iPhone fans decided to wait at physical stores for their phones since those that pre-order the devices have to wait until November to receive them.
