This morning eager iPhone users began to gather at the Verizon Wireless store located at 901 South Dewey Street. The highly anticipated iPhone 5 goes on sale today and stores open at 8am.

Lines began to form around 7:00 Friday morning and more are expected as stores open.

The iPhone 5 features a new 4-inch screen, newly designed headphones as well as location of headphone socket, increased sound quality of phone speakers, better face-time camera quality as well as 4G capability.