Call him the earliest of adopters.

Luke Schoenfelder, 18, of Willow Street, was the first to buy an iPhone at Park City Center Friday at 6 p.m. sharp.

So after a few days of playing with the new gadget, what does he think of it?

"It's amazing," he said as he demonstrated the phone Monday. "I had pretty high expectations, but this definitely exceeded them."

Schoenfelder arrived at Park City at 7:15 a.m. Friday and was the first in line outside the mall's AT&T Wireless store.

He spent most of the next 10 hours and 45 minutes on his MacBook laptop, and he even downloaded the latest version of iTunes so he could connect his phone to the computer and set it up outside the store using the mall's wireless Internet.

Since then, he has been demonstrating his iPhone nonstop for friends, family — and anyone else who happens to be around whenever he takes it out of his pocket, he said.

"People just swarm around it," he said. "I was at Conestoga Country Club over the weekend and like six adults saw it and took out their Blackberrys trying to look cool."

The iPhone went on sale Friday in two Lancaster County AT&T Wireless stores, one in Park City and one at 2233 Lincoln Highway East.

AT&T spokeswoman Ellen Webner said the sales have been brisk since Friday and nearly all of the phones stocked Friday had sold out by Monday afternoon.

Managers reached at both local stores would not comment on sales, except to say they were sold out. They referred all other questions to Webner.

The model with four gigabytes of memory sells of $499 and the eight-gigabyte version, which Schoenfelder bought, is $599.

Schoenfelder said he paid for the phone himself using money he received after graduating from Penn Manor High School in June.

He also has a job at Willow Valley Resort, which he said will replace some of that money and help pay for the monthly service plan.

The only thing the device doesn't have, he says, is video chatting. But he's not too upset about that.

"That would have been sweet," he said of the feature. "But I can't complain too much, I guess. This phone has everything else I want."

Schoenfelder said his family owns a combined three Mac computers and four or five iPods.

He's been following news about the iPhone since the concept was announced about three years ago. The phone was officially unveiled in January at the annual MacWorld Conference in San Francisco.

Webner said AT&T is now directly shipping iPhones directly to customers on waiting lists as they become available.

Once someone receives the phone, he or she can log into iTunes to activate the phone and choose a service plan, Webner said.

Neither Webner nor the store managers would say how many iPhones Lancaster County received or the strategy behind how they were divided among stores around the country.

Schoenfelder said the people he saw waiting in line Friday varied greatly in age.

"I saw kids from school that I hadn't seen in years," he said. "I also saw two people who looked like they were in their 70s, so there was really a variety."

He will take his collection of Apple gadgets with him this fall to Temple University, where he said he will likely major in Middle Eastern studies with a minor in photography.

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