'Overwhelming'
Anticipation has been running high ever since the design, which combines a phone with music player, camera and internet browser, all controlled by a touch screen, was unveiled in January.
Jessica Rodriguez, who was third in line having queued since Tuesday morning, was overjoyed to have the iPhone in her hands at last.
You like it from the first minute you touch it
Norbert Pauli
"It feels great, oh my God, overwhelming. I never thought this day would come - and now it finally has, it's mind-blowing," she said.
"We got no sleep with the rain and the dump trucks going back and forth. I'm going to go home and sleep and play with my phone a little bit."
She plans to give the second handset - Apple will let each customer buy only two - to her sister.
All those who buy the iPhone must activate it via iTunes, so no-one was able to call from their new handset as they left the Apple store.
But Norbert Pauli, a German working at the UN in New York, said he had been impressed by the phone's easy handling even from the little he had been able to do so far.
"The Mac community has waited for so many months and read so many reports. It does feel exactly how it should feel," he said.
"It's a masterpiece of craftsmanship, polished aluminium - the weight and size, it just feels great. You like it from the first minute you touch it."
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