Buyers camp out to purchase new iPhone 4S

NEW YORK (AP) — A faster iPhone with better software and an improved camera went on sale in seven countries today as hundreds of buyers camped out for hours to be among the first to get one.

About 200 people were at Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan as the iPhone 4S went on sale at 8 a.m. Steve Wozniak, who created Apple with Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was first in line at a store in Los Gatos, Calif.

Many said the event resembled a remembrance to Jobs, who died last week, a day after Apple Inc. announced the new phone.

Emily Smith, a 27-year-old user experience designer in New York, checked in to the line on the location-centric social network Foursquare. She got a virtual Steve Jobs badge that read: "Here's to the crazy ones. ThankYouSteve."

Others joked that the 4S model stood "for Steve."

Many people came out despite the fact that they could have ordered phones online and had them shipped to their homes or offices.