Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the US this evening. The queues have formed, and limits placed on how many of the handsets punters can take away with them. What is all the fuss about? Find out by reading Register Hardware's most popular iPhone stories...

After the launch

• Apple's iPhone Reviewed
• iPhone autopsies conducted

Before the launch

• Euro iPhone launch will reveal 3G phone for Vodafone, T-Mobile
• Apple posts iPhone-friendly iTunes, accessories
• Apple limits buyers to two iPhones
• Brand-name reviews give iPhone the thumbs-up
• iPhone contract charges unveiled
• YouTube hits iPhone
• Apple toughens iPhone screen, boosts battery life
• Jobs unveils iPhone to 4,000 drooling fans

Third-parties and the iPhone

• Google boss brandishes 'powerful' iPhone
• iPhone variants on the way?
• Microsoft's Ballmer: Apple's iPhone will be a niche player
• Apple attacks iPhone UI emulators

The competition

• iRiver shows off VoIP phone media player
• Analyst alleges iPhone already hitting Palm sales
• LG locates Google phone in Europe
• Palm developing own OS - again
• Meizu prices up iPhone-esque smart phone
• Neonode announces 'iPhone Nano'-esque N2
• As iPhone fever subsides, the world asks will there be a Zune phone?
• Samsung launches would-be iPhone beater

iPhone rivals - the reviews

• HTC Touch Window Mobile 6 smart phone
• LG Prada KE850 touchscreen phone

DIY

• How to have an 'iPhone' right now... well, sort of

The ancestor

• Apple's first handheld: the Newton MessagePad