iPhone X pre-orders sell out in minutes; Twitter rehashes jokes about selling arm and a leg, & kidney

Pre-orders for the iPhone X, Apple's most expensive smartphone, sold out within minutes after they opened yesterday.

In the UK -- where the phone has a starting price of £999 (a little over Rs 85,000 for the 64 GB) -- the Guardian reported the pre-orders sold out within 10 minutes. 

"We can see from the initial response, customer demand is off the charts," Reuters reported an Apple spokeswoman as saying.

"We're working hard to get this revolutionary new product into the hands of every customer who wants one, as quickly as possible," she added. 

Reuters reported the company's website as showing delivery times for the phone pushed out to five to six weeks, compared to an initial plan of Nov. 3. 

The phone will go on sale in India on November 3. 

The X (pronounced "ten") will have a starting price here of Rs 89,000. While the 256 GB version will cost Rs 1,02,000. 

Introducing the X in September, Apple CEO Tim Cook had called it "the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone."

The X uses facial recognition to unlock, can be charged wirelessly, and has no home button. 

Twitter meanwhile went into overdrive -- with one half saying, yippee, they'd got hold of an X, and the other half rehashing the old jokes about selling an arm and a leg, and a kidney. 

Have a look: 

While also saying that Apple was laughing all the way to the bank: