Look what I got. I looked up all of the stores that would be selling the iPhone in my area, and guessed at which one would have the shortest line. When I got to the store at about 4:30, there were only 7 or 8 people in line. The store was closed from 4:30 to 6, and then they opened the door and let an initial group of about five people in. (There was actually a real policeman working the door at the store.) Then they let people in as the members of the first group left. When I was checking out, the point of sale system for AT&T Wireless crashed hard (supposedly nationwide), but then the system came back up and we made it out with the iPhone.
I’m still waiting on activation to complete, but I love the iPhone already. The display is ridiculously nice, at least judging by the “waiting to activate” screen.
Update: I’m still waiting for the phone to activate (five or six hours after the process started). I’m getting this message.
June 29, 2007 at 10:19 pm
I’m not jealous at all. 🙂
(Let us know how it is, I may have to get myself one…)
/Magnus
June 29, 2007 at 11:06 pm
awesome. envy envy envy.
June 29, 2007 at 11:34 pm
…and?
June 29, 2007 at 11:51 pm
i’m very jealous !!!!! i want one so bad. i just don’t feel like saving up tons of money then shelling it out for something that i dont know personally about yet.
June 30, 2007 at 12:15 am
I skipped the Apple store and went straight to an AT&T store 3 blocks away at 7:30pm. Small crowd, no lines, no waiting. Salesman came up to me as soon as I walked in the door and I walked out with a phone 15 minutes later.
And now I’m waiting for activation … a long long wait and it’s difficult not to check email every 30 seconds.
June 30, 2007 at 12:38 am
After packing my bags for Albion to see the inlaws, I sauntered right into Crabtree Valley at 11pm. No muss, no fuss.
The only way into the mall was via the backdoor next to Panera, where the Rent-a-Cops let me in since I was “heading for the Apple Store”.
I’m now “waiting for my phone to activate.”
June 30, 2007 at 10:47 am
Gruber said “My phone needed to be power-cycled before it “saw” the activation.”