The Apple iPhone launched in Europe Friday and T-Mobile the exclusive iPhone partner in Germany reports that they have sold already 10,000 iPhones on the first day.

This is a good result, but the iPhone hype in Europe is by far not as big as it was in the U.S. at launch last summer. It will have to be seen if sales continue for T-Mobile as the 2 year plans you have to choose for the iPhone are rather expensive starting at 49 Euro (~$70).

The 49 Euro iPhone plan includes kind of unlimited Wifi and Edge data (if you use more than 200MB/month than you get throttled), 100min. and 40 SMS.

In the U.S. the lowest iPhone plan from AT&T costs $59.99 and includes unlimited data, 450 min., 5,000 weekend min. and 200 SMS. Now AT&T does not look that evil anymore does it?

Dialaphone has taken some photos of Carphone Warehouse and O2 stores in London on launch day. In the afternoon before the sales start of the iPhone at 6.02pm no lines have formed. Only at the Apple store some people gathered. O2 did not release iPhone sales numbers for the UK yet.

If Apple would have launched the iPhone at the same time in Europe as in the U.S. the frenzy would have been much, much higher. The excitement for the iPhone was huge in Europe, despite people could not buy the phone at the time.

Apple already sold way over 1 million iPhones in the U.S., making Europe not that important right now.

T-Mobile iPhone sales numbers via this T-Mobile press-release (German).

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