The 25-year-old has been a Sprint customer, spending the last three years using a BlackBerry Pearl. Mathews was in the crowd queued up outside the Apple Store on Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Friday morning, waiting for a chance to buy the iPhone 4S. Apple’s latest smartphone went on sale across the U. S. on Friday. At the Walnut Street store in Philadelphia, around 100 people were in line an hour before the store opened its doors. But with the iPhone 4S now available to Sprint customers as well as to AT&T and Verizon subscribers, “There is incentive (to upgrade) now. Fewer than a dozen people camped outside the store overnight, with the line picking up mass around 4 a. m. “It’s not a very smart phone,” she said of the BlackBerry. The iPhone 4S is available in either black or white in three capacities: a 16GB model ($199), a 32GB version ($299) and a 64GB offering ($399). it’s also available in Canada, Australia, U. K. , France, German, and Japan, with plans to sell the phone in 70 countries by year’s end.

Source: Macworld