It's that time again: another iPhone comes our way. After five years, the hype hasn't died down. In fact, it's only gotten stronger. CNET looks back at the anticipation Apple has built, and those who queued up hours -- and even days -- to get the newest iPhone.
Here, hundreds of people jam Stockton Street outside the Apple store in downtown San Francisco on Friday, June 29, 2007, as they await entry and purchase of the first iPhone.
The Apple store in San Francisco shut its doors at noon on Friday, June 29, 2007 in preparation for the launch of the first iPhone at 6 p.m that evening. Employees could be seen scrambling around inside, applying decals to the window that read "iPhone World Premiere Tonight at 6 p.m."
Then, in July 2009, also on a Friday morning, the iPhone 3GS went on sale across the United States, and CNET News' team was once again on the scene at Apple and AT&T stores in Manhattan and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Marketers took advantage of the iPhone 3GS launch at a New York Apple store. This representative from an electronics recycling site called YouRenew.com is sports a very impressive iPhone costume.
Then, on June 25, 2010, came the launch of the iPhone 4. Here's the scene early that Thursday morning outside the Apple store in downtown San Francisco.
iPhone 4S purchasers filed past a tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder and chief executive who had died just the week before the launch. One Post-it note bore the word "iSad."
