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Answering iPhone’s call

It may not have been the ringtone heard ’round the world, but there sure was a lot of fuss over a phone Friday. At 6 p.m., the Apple iPhone went on sale. “

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At Bellevue Square, about 100 people were waiting by midafternoon, with employees from a nearby Starbucks coming by with a coffee cart (compliments of Apple) every hour and a half.

“I’m hoping it will make me cool,” Ryan Petty, 37, joked of the phone, which he was getting for himself, as well as one for his wife.

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