Customers Line Up for IPhone Launch

June 27, 2007 By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Customers Line Up for IPhone Launch (AP)

Jessica Rodriguez joins the line to purchase an iPhone in front of an Apple store on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 in New York. The much-promoted mobile phone from Apple goes on sale Friday in U.S. markets. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(AP) -- For Jessica Rodriguez, waiting four days for an iPhone is nothing when the prize is "the next big thing."

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