iPhone luanches in the UK today

Many people have been keeping track of the launch of the iPhone over in Europe and today that wait is finally over. As of 6:02 pm GMT the iPhone will be released in the UK. Along with this luanch also comes the release of Apples firmware 1.1.2 which early reports claim shut down any third party applications. It is estimated that well over 10,000 iPhones will be sold in the first twenty four hours and hackers all over have announced that they will have a jailbreak application (a third party app that can get past the iPhones proprietary systems) ready within hours of its release. However many questions have been asked about if the iPhone will truly have the success in Europe as it has in the US. The iPhone in Europe is more expensive, also the service agreements are more expensive as well. Yet both of these factors are not what many people point too as the major drawback.

Europe has been using the G3 network for a while now, and the iPhone runs on the slower Edge, so many people have speculated that people may not be willing to give up their current phone speed simply to buy a feature rich product such as the iPhone. Whatever the case, lines are growing and the launch is immanent.