Local Stores See Pre-Dawn Lines for New, Colorful iPhone

Local iPhone fans lined up outside stores selling iPhones early Friday morning to be among the first on the East Coast to get one of the new gadgets.

Two new iPhones were released on Friday, Sept. 20: the iPhone 5S—a "state-of-the-art phone with a fingerprint ID scanner," and available in gold, space gray and silver, NBC 7 News in Boston reported—and the iPhone 5C, which is available in different colors, including pink, green and blue.

Read more about the two phones on Apple's website.

In Silver Spring, the first iPhone customer at the AT&T store at 8519 Georgia Ave. got in line at 4:17 a.m., an AT&T spokesperson told Patch.

Nearby, in Chevy Chase, there already was a line of iPhone customers outside the AT&T store at 5301 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC, well before 7 a.m., another AT&T spokesperson told Patch.

And, in Bethesda, the long line of eager iPhone customers got a shock when the Apple store at 4860 Bethesda Ave. lost power just before opening at 8 a.m., The Wall Street Journal reported. Power was back on by 8:07 a.m., Derrick Ward of NBC 4 reported on Twitter.

The power outage affected about 119 customers in all, and Pepco restored power to the area by 9 a.m. The outage was caused by an overhead fuse that blew out, shutting down a transformer, Pepco spokesperson Bob Hainey told Patch.

See a slideshow of the new iPhones being released at stores across the world on The Washington Post's website.

Did you get one of the new iPhones today? Or, will you be getting one soon? Which one, and in which color? Or, are you sitting this release out? Tell us in the comments.