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IPhone Debuts to Eager Hordes in Japan

A line outside Japanese mobile carrier Softbank’s flagship store in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) They may still be fuming in Spain about the lack of actual iPhones at the iPhone launch but things went off without a hitch in a party atmosphere in Tokyo, the AP reports. Lines formed about the block […]

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A line outside Japanese mobile carrier Softbank's flagship store in Tokyo's Omotesando shopping district. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

They may still be fuming in Spain about the lack of actual iPhones at the iPhone launch but things went off without a hitch in a party atmosphere in Tokyo, the AP reports.

Lines formed about the block at the Softback store where eager buyers of the iPhone 3G counted down the final seconds to with a digital clock at the entrance and amid swirls of smoke as the store opened at exactly 8 a.m.

The inventory of iPhones quickly sold out, but not before 28-year-old filmmaker Taichiro Nakamura got his.
"I'm so happy," he said.

Nakamura's first call? To his girlfriend. Smooth, dude. Very smooth.

Read the entire AP account here.