Business users meet gatecrashers at UK iPhone launch

Friday evening saw Apple's eagerly anticipated mobile handset, the iPhone, go on sale for the first time in the UK.

At 6.02 pm — a nod to the operator O2 which has a "multi-year" exclusivity deal with Apple to support the iPhone in the UK — the doors of the Apple flagship store on Regent Street were opened to the earliest of London's early adopters.

ZDNet.co.uk was there to speak to those in the queue who were considering using the iPhone as a work phone, although the thought had apparently not occurred to most who were lining up for Apple's handset, dubbed by some as the "Jesus Phone".