The new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C went on sale Friday morning. And Apple fanatics flocked to Apple Stores around the world to be among the first to purchase the two new handsets. For some, it's like Christmas, the last day of school and their birthday rolled into one.
Norman Hicks, who was the first customer at the front of the line at the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London, poses for photographers with two boxed iPhone 5S handsets. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
The second customer in the London queue, Jesse Green, aged 15, makes one of several jumps he repeatedly performed holding a boxed iPhone 5S. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Yui Kashima, left, and Nobuhiko Matsuda wait to purchase an Apple's new iPhone outside a store in Tokyo on Friday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Brian Ceballo emerges from the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue as the first to purchase the new iPhone 5S on Friday in New York. Ceballo and a friend waited for 15 days in line outside the store to be the first to buy the phone. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
Another customer buying a new iPhone at Apple's flagship 5th Avenue store. (Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
First customers of the Apple store in Oberhausen, Germany are all smile with their new iPhones in hand as they leave the store. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
A customer of the Apple store in Oberhausen celebrates with the new iPhone 5S. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Simon Sun, left, gets a high five from Apple sales associate Mike Jones, right, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
