I am thinking about camping out with Tiffany this thursday night to get the new iPhone this Friday. Anyone else as crazy as I am?

i use a prepaid tmobile phone i got for free with the purchase of 1000 minutes May 2007, which I still haven't used completely.

so no lol

I am. Hoping for there not to be a line when I get there. But Ill check Thursday night when I get home form work.

nope. preordered online and it will be delivered by courier on friday!

Yeah, I have bridals at 6:30 so I won't be in line til 8:00 pm. I am hoping I am the only geek that's gonna arrive that early so I can be first in line I have a wedding on Friday at 4pm in SLC so I want to get in and get out asap.Must be a UK thing? I don't think they are selling any 3g online in the US, all activation has to be done in store. I can't even go alone to buy one for Tiffany, she has to be there to purchase her because they limit it to one per person.

we are very happy about this - but 02 is the only company wiht it and they offered it yesterday online - the site went down due to overhwhelming demand, but we got ours and they are now sold out. it will be here first thing friday!

LUCKY

I'm not camping out but I'm sure going to try to get one on Friday (and not at the Mall of America because eew). If not, then Saturday! Or Sunday!

I'm probably gona try Friday morning. I hope people aren't actually camping out!

I'll be checking out the craziness in Japan...if there is any. So far none of my Japanese friends are that excited about it..it's slow, doesn't have a lot of functions they have had for awhile (video chatting,tv, MUCH better camera, video recording..etc..) They only thing they like about it is the touch screen and the look. Function wise..in Japan...it's nothing new.

But...that doesn't mean I don't want one here in the US! I do...except for that bloated plan. I rarely use my voice phone...something like 30-50 mins/mo. BUT, I'd use the unlimited data ALL THE TIME! Wish there were better options for plans. $70/mo is ridiculous

I didn't know the data plan was so freaking high, where did you find that info at? I thought it was only $30/month for unlimited data

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I probably will be, but I like this sort of thing. My brother and I always camp out on Black Friday at Circuit City or Best Buy depending on who has what, so I'm used to it. People think it's crazy but I actually enjoy it. It's fun.

It is 30.

Ok, good, I about had a heart attack, lol.

I meant the whole plan minimum is $70/mo. on a 2 year contract.

Also, I take that back about the Japanese... http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/iphone-...nt-wear-a-suit/
It's a fad there more than anything...but Mac is taking hold...just very slowly.

Sticking with my 1st Gen 4GB for now - be curious to hear the reviews.... ;-)

I'll let you know Friday night after I get back from my wedding Bill

Not sure I would spend the night for an iphone but I did spend the night with a friend last year on black friday at a best buy. I have to admit I'll never forget that one. Have some crazy stories from that night. I might even do it again this year.

I want to be first in the line so I can get in and out, I have a wedding later on Friday so I don't want to be in a couple hour line then start to stress about getting to the wedding on time, lol.

Plus camping out is fun. Tiffany and I usually camp out on black friday. A couple years ago we were camping outside Circuit City freezing our butts off in the dead of winter, and about 3 or 4am, some punk teenagers drove by and threw water balloons at all of us. Good times, good times.

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Dustin, if you think that $70 for unlimited data would be crazy, you should see what they're talking about for us up here in Canada for the iPhone. No unlimited data, and the charges are still pretty high for data only. Definitely no $30 plan for it here.

Yeah I want to be one of the first too, just so I don't have to sit in line all day while people are signing their new contracts or whatever. What a pain in the but it's going to be.

I stayed in front on Best Buy one year but I don't think I'd ever do it again. It was really sketchy and people were rude. Last year we did Circuit City and it was MUCH calmer and more organized. Then again, we were 3rd and 4th in line. haha

nice. water balloons in the dead of winter. not sure that would fall under my "good times" column but that is hilarious. i definitley wouldn't forget that.

Yeah, I saw that Chris, that totally sucks. They cap you guys out at 6GB and it's hella expensive. We are lucky to have unlimited $30 plans here in the US

Yeah dustin, I just looked into it. $100/6gb plan plus your actual voice plan of a minimum $60, plus their system access fee of $6.95 makes it ridiculous. wow. I think I'll just get an unlocked one and not use the data over the network function, just pickup free wifi spots with it.

Nate is a Creative at the apple store here in Orlando and I still don't think I want to be anywhere near that mall on Friday! HaHa. Maybe I'll use my connections to skip the line. Just kidding, I think I'm gonna keep my iphone for now.ps...he just said that the mall (Millenia) is letting people start lining up at 6:30am and the store opens at 8. Oh my...

Tami, That's rad that you were one of the ones who got an Iphone from O2 or preorder. I heard all sorts of stories about how they crashed their site and stuff from traffic overload. Very cool

I dont think we am going to camp. Im sure it would be fun- but it is suppose to rain all week here- and I dont think it will be necessary in the end. I was thinking of going real early on Friday morning instead.

Im excited about getting it- but Im kind of over the hype and am just ready for Friday to be here. Yay for Iphones

The voice plan + the $30 unlim. data plan DOES NOT INCLUDE TXT MESSAGING.
You'll have to add on a "messaging plan", too, if you do txt messaging.
I'm probably going to do the $5/month for 200 messages.

So, I'll dump my $20/mo data plan, get the $30 3G plan plus $5 messaging, and my bill will go up by $15 (plus whatever new taxes I get -- you know they'll be there!)

I've just got to find an Apple or AT&T store up in Carson, where I'll be Friday.

The cool thing that I saw on apple.com yesterday is that they'll have them fully charged in the store on Friday, so you can walk in, pick your plan, sign up, buy the phone, and walk out with a phone that you can make calls on & start browsing the net, too ... awesome

it's always strange to me how much people say "don't get a iphone the plan is really expensive"
when it's exactly the same as any other smart phone, you never hear anyone complaining about the costs of a blackberry plan.
and then you read about other countries and their data plans are WAY more expensive than in the US especially for unlimited data.

anyways, back on topic, i'm probably going to just go to my local at&t store an hour or two before they open on friday.
i was in there the other day, the manager expects people to camp out, it'll be interesting to see how many people are already there when i get there.

at&t stored in my area aren't carrying the iPhone. only the Apple Store. I will be there in the evening when the caos has died down. I don't think it will sellout or have the same shortage and high demand as the wii... knock on wood:)

Well all, Tiffany and I are off to the local at&t store I am such a dork and poor Tiffany being dragged along. See you all tomorrow

Chris u will DEFINITELY want to check out this little promo offering that $100 plan 6gb for $30/month if you buy within the first 30 days... I use roughly 2 - 3gbs of data with what I consider to be a tremendous amount of usage so if u can lock in this rate its basically "virtually" unlimited :-).http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=...4-0&Start=0http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/09/rogers-offe...hone-data-plan/this is pretty cool of rodgers to do! go canadians!on the 2G u can get a go phone sim card (pre-paid sim) and then just pay for the data plan and add mins at a higher per min rate (but right in line if u truly only use 30 - 50 mins/month). I think this would run u like $40 - $60/month? Not sure and this may or may not work with the iphone 3G..

yes, a friend of mine recently went to Canada for a weekend visit with family, and between Friday and Monday he managed to wrack up over $1000 in data/roam charges on his iPhone and didnt know it. He is still arguing the phone company about this.

my husband has his courier tracking number and i swear he has been checking it every hour... (just kidding)

it should be here in about 4 hours though.....

for eveyone waiting for a package, you may enjoy this

Big D! Got your new toy business tool yet?

Just got a call from a friend who got to the AT&T store at 5:45 this morning. Was the 38th customer and got the next to last black 16GB iPhone. The system was so bogged down that it took forever, had problems running his credit card. Had to run it twice. When they ran it again, the system showed that his particular iPhone had already been purchased. So he had to leave the iPhone there until they get it resolved. It's a crazy day for the AT&T people!

Tiffany and I were first in line and both got 16gb iphones. In the store, we waited about 10 minutes while they tried to activate the phone through iTunes, which wasn't happening and timing out. So they told us to take the phone home and activate it through our home iTunes. Problem with that is the whole nation is doing the same thing. So we are stuck here without a phone until iTunes is back up.

Apple really should've released the 2.0 firmware a week ago, so that most of the traffic for upgrades would've been out of the way. But now every one with a v1 iphone is trying to update their firmware, while all the nation is trying to activate their phones, so it's just a nightmare.

so we ended up camping out anyways- we went to the att store last night and was talking to a few campers- who told us that location sold out really quick last year- so we camped out- and I was really glad- because we were fourth in line- and by the time we left the line was wrapped around the building. Activation was pretty slow- the att people were all working out their kinks on us.

First impressions...I really like the black plastic back- the GPS is really accurate and I love that it shows traffic. The touch screen feels more responsive and the audio quality is a lot better. I am very pleased.

So did you get to activate the phone in store?

Oh man, I hate to hear that. Hopefully it will be up and running soon. If it's any consequence, I'm very jealous and envious of you right now.


Yes, envious of you as well.

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Yeah Josh and I had to have it activated in the store. We had fun camping out and l am glad we did. The line was ferocious after midnight

woo hoo After an hour of trying to activate on iTunes, I finally got in. It's restoring my settings from my old iPhone as we speak.

had ours for a few hours now. its taking a while to set up... but husband is quite happily doing so.

when the courier arrived, i thought my husband was going to hug him!

i just got back from the att store, i ended up not getting there till 7am. by then there were probably 100 people in front of me, and a couple hours later there were the same amount of people behind me, so i ended up in the center of a really long line.
they completely ran out of phones probably 10 people before me.
so in the end i waited in line for that long and i drove away with a receipt and a "we'll call you when your phone arrives"
so in about a week i should be enjoying mine. oh well, was still a fun experience, all the people in line around me were really nice.

can't help but wish i had gone 1hr earlier.

but at least i have one coming that has my name on it.

Just got home with mine... showed up at around 6:30am at the Apple store in the King of Prussia mall, was out of there by 10:30 with my beautiful new 16GB. iTunes servers were S....L....O....W but after about 25 mins the phone finally activated and i'm up and running... didn't even have to camp out!

SO dustins is done and i am working on mine now, i need to find a slot where i can slip and and activate this sleek beautiful white 16gigThere have been many times when the UPS man comes to our door and Dustin is so excited and I too think that he will hug the man

I am seriously jealous!!!

*falls over and dies*

Hey Joshua,

I'm curious to hear more about the audio being better. Is it very noticeable? Is it with music that the audio is better, or talking, or both?

I don't live anywhere where there will be 3G coverage, and I don't care at all about GPS, so I'm trying to decide if I want a new one or to try and find a 2G version.

I was thinking the 2G version would meet my needs great until I read what you said about better audio quality. I love music so audio quality is important to me, so I'd love to hear what you notice as different and improved. Anyone else notice better audio quality?

Thanks!!!

Shawn,

I think the audio has improved dramatically. Before when I would play my iphone through the speakers, it was really scratchy, now with the new iphone, it's not as scratchy and sounds really nice. I also think the calls are a little easier to hear.

Thanks Dustin!! I think it may be what sways me to get a new one rather than an old one, even with no 3G around here and no cares for a GPS.

Audio quality is important, and someone else mentioned on the Pictage forum that:

There's supposedly a lot more to this upgrade than just 3G and GPS from what I've heard. A faster processor, a much better antennae, better battery life, and way better sound quality.


Sounds great to me!

OK, time for my iphone story from today. I got up around 6:30 am this morning and literally had to drag my 7 year old out of bed to come with me. I thought that if we could get to the store around 7:30 or so we would be OK.

So I get to the AT&T store. There was no line, just a few people waiting in cars. I was like, great, this is gonna be easy! So it gets closer to 8am, and all of us is anticipating the store opening soon. Someone pointed out that there was no iphone posters, or anything up. We then realized that the store was an authorized retailer and not a regular AT&T store. This is a fairly large store, and I always thought it was the AT&T store. The AT&T store was actually next door located inside the Walmart. Talk about feeling dumb! OMG!

So then we heard that the store in Walmart had already counted the first so many in the store and sent the rest home! So I drove across town to another AT&T store. We get there at 8:20. We had about 50 or so people in front of us, so I was confident if we waited we would get a phone. Surely they had more than 50 iphones! A guy kept coming out giving us updates and I asked him, why can't you just tell us how many phones you have so we don't all have to wait. He refused to tell us. He said only his manager knew how many they had. I felt like they really did us a disservice by not telling us. Finally after we waited in line for 2 hours they ran out of phones. It was gonna be another hour just to get on the list! No way Jose!

We decided just to go home and buy one later. But instead of going home (yes, I am a glutten for punishment), I decided to check one more store. I knew they wouldn't have any but I thought I wouldn't have to wait in line to get on the list. Luckily we got there, and only had to wait a few minutes. I was able to go ahead and purchase the phones, and they told me that they would email me when they came in. I have no idea how long that will take though.

All in all I spent over 4 hours in lines or waiting at AT&T stores today. Still didn't get an iphone. I was really disappointed that I didn't get to go home with an ipod today but, oh well.