First-day buyers today lined up at Apple retail locations and its carrier partner stores to get a first crack the latest iPhone. Some camped out overnight in San Francisco, while others in New York had set up shop even before the phone was announced.

Some even traveled around the world to get one, including Martin Gizemijter, who flew 11 hours from the Netherlands to pick up an iPhone from an Apple store in Pasadena, Calif., having done the same for the iPad 2's launch earlier this year.

"I've been awake for a long time," Gizemijter told CNET. "It's not a matter of being worth it," when asked about waiting in line. "It's not an intellectual decision. It's about the experience."

Whether the iPhone 4S could draw the same crowds as Apple's last iPhone was called into question after its unveiling last week, with some calling it an "underwhelming" update from Apple.

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