Apple fans queue up for new iPhone EAGER Apple fans around the world queued up today to make sure they would be among the first people to get their hands on the new iPhone 5. In Australia, an estimated 600 people queued around the block from the Apple store in central Sydney, the first in the world to hand over an iPhone 5 to buyer at 8am local time - 10pm last night in this country. Customers were limited to buying a maximum of two phones. In Hong Kong, small groups of people carrying rucksacks filled with cash waited outside the city's flagship store hoping to snap up phones for resale. Masayoshi Son, president of Softbank Corp, one of the two Japanese carriers selling the phone, said he was concerned that Apple does not have enough production capacity to meet demand. KDDI Corp, the other Japanese carrier offering the iPhone, said that it had already run out of the new phone.