Scenes from iPhone 4 launch (photos)
We take you to New York and the San Francisco Bay Area where the much-anticipated iPhone 4 is hitting store shelves and people have been queuing up to get it.
San Francisco line
First up, we take you to Apple's downtown San Francisco store early Thursday morning, where the line stretched for blocks.
Editors' note: This slideshow was updated at 11:40 a.m. PDT with photos from Palo Alto, Calif., Manhattan, and Brooklyn.
Apple employee
Guy with sign
Apple employees in blue
Apple employee greets the crowd
First in line
Ellis Street
Cupcakes
Mob scene
Scene setter
Way end of line
iPad ad
Line inside Fifth Ave. store
Trying to use FaceTime
Activating the iPhone 4
RadioShack in Brooklyn
The 15th person in line just ahead of the store's 9 a.m. opening time was a girl who said her boyfriend was in line at the Apple Store on 14th Street in Manhattan. He preordered a phone there and said Thursday morning that even the preorder line was moving at a snail's pace; she, meanwhile, preordered at the Montague Street RadioShack: "I'll probably be back in bed before he even gets to the front of the line."