People start Queuing for the iPhone 5 eight days before it launches

This year the annual "iPhone camping" started eight full days before the new iPhone 5 actually becomes available in stores. The line at the Fifth Avenue store in New York is already pretty long and they all will wait for more than a week till the iPhone 5 launch.

Waiting in line is not extreme fanboyism, people are there to get some free publicity or with a money making scheme in mind.

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