iPhone in France: Customers Already Queuing in the Streets

Six days after the other countries, the iPhone is launched in France, and the iPhone-mania will start too.
several customers are already queuing in front of the Orange shop located on the Champs Elysées (Thanks to Pierre-Henry for the photo). Let's hope that this shop has more than the average 12 iPhone units available per Orange shop as we have learned... It remains unclear if this is due to short supply by Apple, or a clear decision made by Orange to avoid having stocks...

All Orange shops open their doors at 8h00. FNAC and Darty (main consumer electronics distributors) will also have the iPhone in their respective shops today. At the end of the day, most consumers might not have to chance to get the expected iPhone due to the limited number of units available. It is maybe a way for Apple to push sales via the Apple Store...
All Orange shops will get from 11 to 16 iPhone units depending on their size and their location (except the flagship on the Champs Elysées). for 12 units, it will be the following:
- 8 iPhones 3G 8G (black)
- 2 iPhones 3G 16G White
- 2 iPhones 3G 16G Black
For sure Orange will most likely sale them all at the end of the day, and most probably before lunch time.
[update]
The queue is increasing with time, the shop is only opened for 2 hours…