Apple launches iPhone 5S and 5C worldwide [See Pictures]

New Delhi: Apple's iPhone 5s and 5c are now on sale at retail and online stores around much of the world. And the consumers responded to the debut of Apple's latest smartphones with the usual gusto. Long lines were reported at Apple retail locations everywhere.Analysts expect Apple to sell up to 6 million iPhones this weekend or more, if inventories last. The gold model of the new iPhone 5s has been especially popular as quickly got sold out on Apple's online store.One analyst claimed that Apple's flagship store in Manhattan saw its longest lines ever, with almost twice as many people waiting this year compared to last year.See the pics:Pic 1. Pic 2: Yui Kashima, left, and Nobuhiko Matsuda wait to purchase an Apple's new iPhone outside a store in Tokyo. Pic 3: Apple sales associates cheer customers waiting in line for the latest versions of the iPhone, before the opening day of sales of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C at the Apple store at the Americana at Brand mall in Glendale, California.Pic 4. Norman Hicks, left, and Jess Green, aged 15, the first two customers at the front of the queue, pose for photographers with boxed iPhone 5s handsets as they leave the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London. Pic 5. NTT docomo President Kaoru Kato lifts a newly released Apple's iPhone as he poses for photographers during a ceremony to mark the first day sales of the latest iPhones 5C and 5S at a store in Tokyo.Pic 6. The first two customers in the queue Norman Hicks, left, and Jesse Green, aged 15, high-five each other just before being allowed to enter the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London.Pic 7. Apple employees applaud as the first customer proudly shows off his new iPhone 5S outside an Apple store in Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing.Pic 8. Customers show off new iPhones outside an Apple store in Tokyo.Pic 9. First customers of the Apple store in Oberhausen are all smile with their new iPhones in hand as they leave the store after the start of the new iPhone sale in Oberhausen, Germany.Pic 10. A customer of the Apple store in Oberhausen celebrates with the new iPhone 5S as he leaves the store at the start of the new iPhone sale in Oberhausen, Germany.