The one-week iQueue. The saddest fanboys of the lot
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Lazy Llama
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iPhone 3G queue not idiots but environmental campaigners - Guardian says they're "a newly minted publicity-seeking environmental collective with an agrico-political mission: to persuade the 44th President of the US ... to transform the White House's 17-acre lawn into an organic farm."
Environ-mental fanboys. Feckin' tree huggers.
It'll be be those damn animal rights lot next
Environ-mental fanboys. Feckin' tree huggers.
It'll be be those damn animal rights lot next
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Kanda
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Fixed.
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Here for the football.
Have these people not heard of the internet?
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Gromit
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Overloaded servers? Problems processing orders?
All mobile companies and most telcos are fuckwits, tbh.
Well they invited existing users to pre-register to find out how to be the first to get your hands on the 3g phone.
Got a txt a 8:45 saying the website to upgrade was now open.
it had been open from 8:00
Access site and it slooooowly loaded.
Presented with a form to fill out.
Fill out form, submit. Get sent to Failover screen.
Go back, all my details have gone, reenter em all again.
Failover.
Re-enter
Failover.
repeat x number of time till i get:
This page is down undergoing maintaince screen.
Try later and a get a blank blue scrren with no message or anything.
Try later and have a new screen now where if i enter my phone number it will txt me an upgrade code.
Get upgrade code which it tells me i can enter on the screen. What fucking screen?
Finally work out that it means i can go to the online shop and buy asa regular user but with this code to let them know i already have a iPhone.
Screen loads up.... no 16gb phones left.
Even they've sold them all to all the new users this morning whilst us heads up, existing users have been trying to upgrade or they've never had any. Still can't see where to enter my code. Might be right at the end of checkout maybe but at that stage i gave up to work out do i wait for a new batch of 16 gb or just get the 8gb. I have till end of august to decide it think.
I was only going to fork out the extra for the 16gb as i'm not sure how many apps i might want to buy and how big they are. A 8gig might be enough for me but i'm worried about taking that risk.
Annoyingly i bet on opening day my local carphonewarehouse will have tons of 16gb going begging which i can't buy as i am only allowed to upgrade online.
Way to wind up existing iPhone users who bought early.
Some johnny come lately is going to get their 16gb phone beofre me thanks to O2 letting everyone bombard their servers on the same day.
Lazy Llama
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Marius, I'm a "new user" and got an email notifying me that the order site was up at 7:30 this morning.
Their load-balancing seems to be fundamentally broken as each time I tried to put my details in I'd get a message that my session had expired or been cancelled.
I'd imagine someone at o2 will be getting their bollocks toasted for the mess this morning.
Still, it's only a phone
Their load-balancing seems to be fundamentally broken as each time I tried to put my details in I'd get a message that my session had expired or been cancelled.
I'd imagine someone at o2 will be getting their bollocks toasted for the mess this morning.
Still, it's only a phone
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I was at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York the day the iPhone was released and I can tell you there were some very sad fanboys who had been queuing for days and some were doing so, just to be able to sell their place in the iQueue!
One guy was trying to sell his space (about 10 places back) for $5,000. He'd even had offers of $4,000 but turned them down!
I'll try and post the pics from last year up later.
One guy was trying to sell his space (about 10 places back) for $5,000. He'd even had offers of $4,000 but turned them down!
I'll try and post the pics from last year up later.
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Until you need to change the battery of course!
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I defy you not to use Internet more than you have before. I never realky used wap but as this is proper net with a nice interface and you are paying for unlimited use in the tariff anyway you find yourself using it a lot. As proven by the increase in mobile Internet increases since the iPhone came along.
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If they stuck a proper keyboard on it and let me do the useful and essential things that my Palm can currently do - e.g. sync notes, memos and tasks, wireless sync, cut and paste etc and get rid of all the annoying locked-down stuff - I'd certainly be very interested in an iPhone.
The screen is great and it's a fine looking phone.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I was just passing an opinion, just like you.
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