The phone first became available in stores Friday morning, with openings at 8 a.m. local time kicking off aglobal rollout that began in Australia and Asia and then hit Europe before arriving in the U.S. and Canada.
"With technology being what students need to learn in order to participate in aglobal world and economy, I'm not sure schools can forfeit the time to teach cursive, unfortunately, " said Paige French, an eighth-grade history teacher in Dallas, Texas.