New iPhones selling briskly in first day

WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple Inc.'s newest iPhone was selling briskly today as thousands lined up outside stores around the world to snag one amid concerns of supply shortages.

Some stores including ones in Tokyo, Miami, San Francisco and Charlotte, N.C., sold out within hours as the iPhone 4 went on sale in the U.S., France, Germany, the U.K. and Japan.

Apple called the demand for the phone "off the charts" and said it's working hard to get phones into customers' hands as quickly as possible.

Sean Hill, 39, a Washington police officer who pre-ordered an iPhone, smiled and proudly held it up for the crowd to see as he left the newly opened Apple store in the Georgetown neighborhood.

"I'm like a kid in a candy store," Hill said. "I'm probably going to spend all morning playing with it."