With less than three days left until the iPhone 5s/5c general availability, Apple this morningposted a reminderthat both handsets are scheduled to go on sale on Friday, September 20 at 8:00am local time at Apple retail stores and at 12:01am PDT at the online Apple Store in the United States, United kingdom, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico and Singapore.

The company promised torelease iOS 7 for public consumption on Wednesdayso we think first iOS 7 and iPhone 5s/5c reviews will be hitting the web real soon. In the meantime, folks who pre-ordered Apple’s cases for the new iPhones have reportedreceiving their shipment early.

iPhone 5s unboxing (image 001)

And over in China, a few lucky customers who seem to have gotten their hands on the firstiPhone 5sand5cunits posted photographic and video evidence of the unboxing as proof…

MacRumorspoints us to what appears to be the first unboxing video of the lower-cost iPhone 5c posted by the Italian technology websiteHDblog.it. The clip, credited to a source at Chinese carrier China Unicom, has been posted to YouKu, which is the Chinese version of YouTube.

iPhone 5c (unboxing, HDBlog.it 002)

You can watch it embedded below, but note it requires the Flash plug-in.

The website also posted a bunch of unboxing photos of both the iPhone 5s (see the image top of post) and the blue iPhone 5c (below).

iPhone 5c (unboxing, HDBlog.it 001)

No surprises here: the package contents of both new iPhones includes the EarPods headphones, a Lightning cable, a USB wall charger and Apple’s standard manual.

So, who’s excited?