Am I the only geek who qued for an hour and a half this morning to get one of these?

i am getting one in a few weeks after the maddnes settles.

Walked past the Apple shop in Sydney today, wondered what people were queuing down the street for.

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Am I the only geek who qued for an hour and a half this morning to get one of these?

Probably, what is it?

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Originally posted by i am simon 2:
Am I the only geek who qued for an hour and a half this morning to get one of these?

No. I've read reports of others

You're not going to like this but I walked into a Carphonewarehouse about midday and said, hey can I upgrade my iPhone to a new one? Sure, last one.

That was the smooth bit. iTunes activation is all up but the spout which has bricked my new phone and stupidly my old one too when I decided (did I mentioned stupidly?) to 2.0!

Arghhhh!

Jay

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Originally posted by i am simon 2:
Am I the only geek who qued for an hour and a half this morning to get one of these?

No me and the missus were geeks as well (with the kids in tow). Having landed back home in the UK on Tuesday am. from 4 years in Oz, we decided to wait until this morning to get new UK mobiles.

What bloody chaos it was. My wife was able to get her phone in the first hour of sales, but after 2 and a half hours I had not succeeded getting through the credit check process with the systems failing.

I went back a few hours later and tried again to find out that Lloyds Bank had now suspended my debit card due to all the earlier attempts using it earlier in the day.

I now have two iphones and am sitting here downloading new versions of itunes which is taking ages. I hope then I can activate them so they are of some use tomorrow -we will see. Bit of a shambles really. At least I got to the Naim day at Infidelity in the middle of it all.

I don't think I would have bothered if we had not needed to get new mobiles.

this little thing is impressive. Sitting in a hotel room posting this post on my iPhone. It really means you can be web connected from just about anywhere.

i'll probably get one - after the dust settles. been waiting for the 3g. plus my employer has a discount program. an irresistable little toy ... didn't realize europe was getting them the same day as the states this time. enjoy.

Sticking with the standard iPhone updated to 2.0 (Waiting for the 3g 32Gbb version).

Update worked but won't run Super Monkey Ball :-(

Definitely on my radar - maybe in a year's time when my current smartphone is clapped out...

I went by an at&t shop in Seattle at about 1:00 on the day of release and the store seemed very quiet. Maybe 7 customers in there. I played with one of the three new phones that were on display for a couple of minutes but didn't speak to anyone while I was there. Learned later that all the at&t stores sold out by 10 a.m. No wonder so quiet...
Upgraded my first gen iPhone to 2.0 on Saturday while at work without hitch and the improvements are welcome.

Really would love to get the new phone but no dire need thanks to the software upgrade. Not so excited about effectively doubling the data package cost from 20 with the original iPhone to 35 for the 3g plus 5 bucks for 200 sms.
Would love the increased speed, however.

I love my iPhone.

My P990i contract with Vodafone ends in September. It looks like there might be some proper competition for the iPhone by around then, so hopefully I can stick with Vodafone. O2's signal sucks where I work, and the Vodafone customer service has been excellent for the last 4 years.
Does the 3g have full Bluetooth?

Tony

Well....

Yesterday my number got ported, and my phone is up and running. After 3 attempts at trying to get our exchange server details from my IT people and thinking that upgrading from my blackberry to the iphone was a mistake, i figured out what i was doing wrong, and i was delighted to get the exchange server verification successful message, phew...

within about 3 seconds, all of my email, contacts and calendar were working on the new phone.

As an email device, you will simply never beat the functionality of a blackberry, but the iphone comes close, and what it loses in ergonomics, it more than makes up for with a better screen, much better rendering of rich emails with strange formatting and graphics etc.

Also the folders tree is all there just like on my desktop outlook, and they are more accessible than on a blackberry.

I think the main downside will be the battery life, but i think this will improve as the novelty of watching bbc iplayer on my phone wears off.

Having queued for an age on Friday morning to get my phone, on friday evening, I waltzed into carphone warehouse on Oxford St at 6.00pm no queue and asked "have you got any iphones left" thinking that I would have no chance, and they replied "yes, we have just had another 30 handsets come in" so i picked one up for my wife with no wait at all!

I think they are not in such short supply, and that Steve Jobs is a marketing genius.

Simon