iPhone 3G In The Palm of My Hand(s)
After waiting (im)patiently for well over a year, I finally decided to take the plunge and get an iPhone, on release day no less. This is huge considering how much I hate cellphones, but seeing as how my 5G iPod needs to be replaced anyhow I figured why not. I went to bed at around 4am thinking that I would get up at 7, spend an hour or so in line and head back home for some sleepage. Yeah, wrong!
I got to the AT&T store at 8 am only to see a line wrapping around outside. Screw that I thought, and headed over to the Apple Store over at the Mall of Millenia. Yeah, as you can imagine that wasn’t much better.
After being in line for 5 minutes or so an Apple Employee made his rounds and said that the wait time would be around 4 hours, and this was at about 8:15 am. Needless to say I didn’t end up leaving until 6 pm, but it was totally worth it. They wouldn’t say how many units they had in the back room, but I was around the 400th person in line and they seemed to have plenty left of each of the three different models. Apple was kind enough to be handing out free bottles of Smart Water™ along with some bags of chips and such throughout the day though. Of course, the sexy Emo girls working at the Apple stores are an added bonus. I feel the need to go to some of those free one-on-one workshops that they do.. you know what I mean!
I didn’t think I would be using this thing as much as I am - in fact, this entire post so far has been written on the iPhone. Everything (except wi-fi) works seamlessly as does syncing with iTunes, and with the App Store the work day goes by a lot faster. I don’t really say this enough but the box it comes with is pretty nice too.
It was going to be a one or another type of thing, but when the MacBook Tablet comes out I may have to get that as well just after seeing how well the iPhone works.
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