Queues were forming today outside Apple stores in London, San Francisco and other major cities as the company prepared to introduce the latest version of its iPhone.
The iPhone 4 goes on sale in five of the world’s six biggest economies tomorrow, starting in Japan and followed by France, Germany, Britain and the United States.
Customers bought 600,000 of the slimmer handsets on its first day of pre-sales this month.
Dozens of Apple fans queued outside a mobile phone store in Tokyo hoping to buy one of the “limited” quantity reserved for retail sale only.
“I’m a huge fan of Apple. If a new product comes out, I want it,” said Manabu Ishiyama, 28, who has camped since Monday outside the Tokyo branch of Softbank,