Apple fans begin queueing for the new iPhone 7 five days ahead of its release
The iPhone 7 is not being released until Friday but the famous queues have already started outside some of the stores worldwide.
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In Germany and America people are already setting up camps outside the stores on Kurfuerstendamm Boulevard in Berlin, and its flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York despite there still being five days until its release.
It is a familiar site every time Apple releases a new product but it seems this may be a record for the earliest people have started to queue.
According to Harvard Zhang on Twitter, an intern at Bloomberg News, the first man in the queue has been waiting since August 25 - long before the iPhone 7 was even unveiled and some people are even asking for fees to keep spots in the queue.
Would you pay over $3,000 or around £2,500 for a person to hold your spot in the queue?
If queuing wasn’t your thing you might like the idea of a mobile network in New Zealand who is giving the first 100 customers a robot to stand in line for them – let’s just hope the robots don’t get kidnapped!
Since 2007 the media have reported on people of all ages waiting in anticipation for a new iPhone with pizzas being ordered to be delivered to queues and friends waiting with their survival packs.
There was doubt over whether long lines of people would appear this year following reports sales had peaked and the hype for Apple’s products were fading – but clearly this just isn’t the case.
