iPhone makes official debut in Germany and U.K.

Apple's iPhone made its much-anticipated European debut today, with the computing giant hoping to replicate the success it has so far enjoyed in the U.S. market, where the device has sold close to 1.5 million units since hitting retail in late June. Apple said it hopes to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, counting on brisk sales in Europe as well as Asia, where the handset will go on sale sometime next year.

The iPhone is now on sale in more than 700 T-Mobile stores in Germany for €399 (about $587)--according to the Associated Press, about 350 consumers were lined up outside a Cologne location this morning in anticipation of the device's official release. British consumers will pay £269 ($566) at Carphone Warehouse and O2 shops when the iPhone goes on sale at 6 p.m. this evening--France Telecom, which will sell the device via its Orange mobile unit, will not begin sales until Nov. 29.

For more on the iPhone's European launch:
- read this Associated Press article

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