First post from iPhone 3G
Got the 16GB from the Apple store.
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Got the 16GB from the Apple store.
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I still haven’t been able to get an answer related to the 1st Gen iphone. If I purchased a used 1st gen, would I be able to get the old (discontinued?) plan, or would I have to sign up for the new more-expensive 3G plan? And would I have to agree to a 2-year contract?
If I couldn’t get the old plan and would have to sign a contract, it would be pointless to ever buy a first gen phone.
Lucky for you I decided to take it easy today on attaining the Iphone. I went to get my oil change first, then do a couple more errands and by 10am, I went to an ATT store. Needless to say, the line wasn’t too bad but the sun was scorching. After halfway through, a person come out of ATT and was like, “I hope you all are not waiting for the 16gb”
I was like “crap!”, after waiting 2.5 hours, I left, decided to go home relax and try again around 2:30pm.
This time I’m not taking any chances so I went to a Mac store. Stood there for 4.5 hours and finally, home with a 16gb white Iphone!
Activated and everything. No issues. Other than the double wait!
7 hrs wait? Yikes! People, it’s a just a phone! And you might have been able to get it without much wait tomorrow, if these reports are right:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/11/apple-and-att-in-cahoots-over-fake-iphone-shortage/
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/07/11/att-stores-playing-nasty-with-their-iphone-3g-stock/
I wonder if His Steveness recognizes the incredible aggregate waste of time he just caused.
If you want AT&T’s phone service, weezedog, you’re going to pay AT&T’s prices for it. They never offer “old” plans – if you have the plan and they discontinue it, you can still use it. But if you sign up for new service, you have to sign up for current plan pricing.
That’s the way it’s always been for me and I’ve been a customer of theirs since before they bought Cingular.
Check your 3G iPhone. Some of them have a yellowish tint.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=516792
My Albino is sucking up 15GB of goodies as I type this. The 7 hour wait was BRUTAL on this category III cardiac patient but the Apple people told me chairs were not allowed on the waiting line.
And it isn’t just a phone: its a life saving device for me. First call I made, even before I left the store, was to 911. The operator got pissy with me and I told him the story of my adventures in the ER last week. He hung up! I calmed my tortured heart and called back, got the same operator. This time he was meek as a lamb and when I asked: did you get my GPS coordinates? HIs response was: yes sir, I have your GPS coordinates.
Yahoo! I instantly felt safer. Thank goodness Apple implemented this feature even if they couldn’t tell anyone they had (none of the Apple employees knew, or even cared ).
Someone volunteered for a tazering in front of the store during the long wait: tempers were getting short. They almost had to use the tazer on me to keep my heart ticking. It was a long brutal wait.
I was almost sorry we didn’t have a repeat of last years iPhone launch drug dealer big shot confrontation: “I sell lines, I don’t do lines!!!” :-)
Most of the folks were there for new phones, I had 2.0 loaded on my existing iPhone. I also had Texas Hold ‘em and was hoping for a partner to play a hand or two with but alas no one ever showed up.
“I wonder if His Steveness recognizes the incredible aggregate waste of time he just caused.”
I was thinking the same thing as I read all the tweets from folks complaining about how much time they spent (wasted?) trying to get an iPhone. Wouldn’t surprise me if the 3rd quarter productivity numbers are down due to the fact that everyone was standing in lines all day yesterday
Oh, and should we expect your next post to be about how much better you are than the rest of us now that you have your iPhone?
:)
Yeah, I went to the store at the Grove here in L.A. at 1 p.m. and the line was egregiously long. I was told there were still people not in the store yet who had been there before opening time. I left and may or may not get one later depending on how the reviews play out.
BTW, can you use the “Wifi iTunes Store” when connected over HSDPA?
Okay so I’ve got eReader up and working on my iPod touch. Free books Last of the Mohicans and Tarzan of the Apes. Books load into the reader slowly compared to on my Axim.
Now how/when do I get books from eReader.com on my Touch?