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Starting at 8AM local time here in the United States (that’s local whatever time zone you’re in), the iPhone 5s will be going on sale – and at midnight (this morning) the iPhone 5s in gold was the first to start flying off digital shelves. It’s become readily apparent not only online, where at Apple’s […]

That gold iPhone 5S sure is popular — if you try to order through Apple’s website, it won’t ship until October. What a champagne pain.

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Apple’s iPhone 5s and 5c are now on sale at retail and online stores around much of the world, and the general impression from consumers is one of high anticipation. In North America, lines are being reported at Apple retail locations everywhere, including what analyst and Apple watcher Gene Munster (via Mashable) calls Apple’s longest ever lineup for an iPhone device.

The line at Apple’s 5th Avenue NYC flagship store was 1,417 people long at 8 a.m. ET, according to Munster, which is 83 percent longer than the iPhone 5 line at the same time. Munster’s been keeping tallies on iPhone queue length since 2008 with the iPhone 3G, and that line was 549 people long. The next-longest after the iPhone 5s/5c was the iPhone 4, which attracted 1,300 to the flagship New York location.

Of course, Apple didn’t allow pre-orders for the iPhone 4, which is bound to drive more people to retail since they weren’t able to order early and just wait for the FedEx person to drop off their new devices. One good theory about why Apple didn’t offer pre-orders for iPhone 5s is because of supply constraints, owing to the technical challenge of building the new A7 64-bit system-on-a-chip, and the sophisticated new fingerprint scanner built into the 5s Home button.

Images and video have been coming in on social media channels from around the world showing long lines at various Apple retail locations, including the following shot from TUAW depicting an army of Apple employees preparing for the deluge:

Great glass elevator. /mr http://t.co/Y4uWRHtFHc—
  (@TUAW) September 20, 2013

Canadian queues also appear to be much longer than last time around, indicating there’s a strong appetite for the iPhone 5s in that market, too:

We're over 250 deep now. #iPhone5s #EatonCenter instagram.com/p/eexvSHna21/—
Corey Herscu (@cellguru) September 20, 2013

Just under an hour and a half remains before the store doors open in San Francisco, but there’s plenty of anticipation there, too:

6:40 am line goes around the block at San Francisco Apple store. Gold iPhone is already sold out. Who woulda thought. http://t.co/1jDEjHo7ty—
moshen (@paranoidroid) September 20, 2013

All reports also seem to be echoing a common refrain of the new gold iPhone finish being the rarest and hardest to get your hands on, which is likely to do with a combination of that model being in relatively short supply to begin with, and it being attractive to buyers because it’s so different and unique from previous iPhone color options.

Apple hasn’t yet reported any numbers regarding its early iPhone pre-order amounts, but it’s almost guaranteed they’ll offer up some kind of figure of cumulative iPhone 5s/5c pre-orders after this initial launch weekend.

Clad in a plastic back, the iPhone 5C might be cheaper, but is it more durable than the 5S? Obviously, the only way to find out is by dropping the new phones.

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If you’re the proud and lucky owner of the brand new iPhone 5s and/or iPhone 5c, it looks like Apple has a new update waiting for you guys in the form of iOS 7.0.1. This is an update exclusive for both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, so for other iPhone users, do not be alarmed if you do not see this update waiting to be downloaded. The update can be downloaded OTA so check your phone’s software updates to see if you are able to pull it manually in case you haven’t been notified of said update.

The iOS 7.0.1 update follows the release of iOS 7 which took place earlier this year, but like we said, this is an update exclusive to the new iPhones and will address a couple of bugs. One of them has to do with the TouchID sensor found on the iPhone 5s, while the other fix is said to address the iTunes App Store purchase system. Since we don’t own either device (yet), we’re not sure how big a deal these bugs are and how much they affect the functionality of either iPhone, so if you have the iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c, let us know in the comments below if the update fixed any problems you might have had with your brand new phone!

iOS 7.0.1 Update Released For iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c original content from Ubergizmo.