Apple iPhone mania has hit the US with the iPhone hitting US stores US Friday.   Here are some photos courtasay of www.smh.com.au

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Surrounded by cheering Apple Store employees, one of the first iPhone buyers leaves the store on Fifth Avenue in New York.

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Customers line up on 58th Street for the iPhone outside the Apple Store in New York.

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Apple employees cheers as an excited customer leaves the Apple Store with his new iPhone in New York. 

I work in Finance at Sun and for us June 30 is a big day and is like our Financial New Years Eve.  I like many Sun finance folks globally are in the office today closing the June quarter and the financial year 2007.   For us in finance this is a very busy time of the year.  Please spare a thought today for the Sun finance folks who are burning the midnight oil during and over the close.

To my finance colleges at Sun and especially my Cash Teams in Sydney, Broomfield and Amersfoort:

The wait is over..  the Apple iPhone has hit the market.   So what are the reviews like..  here is a snap-shot of some of the reviews:

"Apple has delivered a prodigy," wrote USA Today reviewer Edward Baig.

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret described the gadget as "on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld phone".

The New York Times's David Pogue called it "the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years".

And Newsweek's Steven Levy agreed: "It's a superbly engineered, cleverly designed and imaginatively implemented approach to a problem that no one has cracked to date: merging a phone handset, internet navigator and a media player in a package where every component shines, and the features are welcoming rather than foreboding."

New Apple of his eye ... Apple chief Steve Jobs is said to regard his products as sacred objects that should inspire techno-lust.