New Zealanders queue in cold for iPhone

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealanders eager to be the first in the world to buy Apple's (AAPL.O: ) new-generation iPhone have began queuing up in freezing temperatures, two days before its release, local media reported on Wednesday. Four people with deck chairs, sleeping bags and a small tent started queuing on Tuesday night outside the Auckland shop of phone company Vodafone (VOD.L: ), the New Zealand Herald reported. Vodafone, New Zealand's biggest mobile-phone operator, will start selling the much-hyped and keenly sought 3G iPhone at 12.01 a.m. Friday (1201 GMT Thursday), the first in the world, from three of its shops in New Zealand's main cities. "I'm really just doing it to be able to say that I'm the first one in the world with one of these phones," 22-year old student Jonny Gladwell told the newspaper. He said he was... [read full story]