Huge queues wait to buy iPhones

CUSTOMERS in Germany and Britain lined up to buy the iPhone as it debuted there yesterday, with Apple hoping to replicate the success that the combination mobile phone, music player and web browser has seen in the US.

Apple hopes to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, helped by its launch in Asia next year.

In Germany, the phone went on sale at more than 700 T-Mobile shops, including one in Cologne that opened just after midnight with 350 customers already waiting outside.