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Apple begins week-long Euro-invasion: iPhone for sale in U.K. at O2, Nov. 9

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., held forth from London this morning to orchestrate consumer frenzy over the iPhone’s arrival in the United Kingdom, the first in as many as three European markets to announce this week.
One can only imagine the spectacle of a studiously unshaven American in jeans presenting a handset in the United Kingdom. Regardless of its merits, the iPhone has focused the global wireless industry’s attention on convergence, Apple-style.
Throngs gathered at an Apple flagship store in London to hear the oracle from Cupertino announce that O2 UK, the British operator owned by Spain’s Telefonica, will offer an EDGE-enabled iPhone on Nov. 9 for

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