Knew I wouldn’t get it on Friday, so figured I’d cruise in on Saturday (like I did last year) to get the new iPhone 3G.\u00c2\u00a0 Got to the mall, and there were EASILY 300 people in line.\u00c2\u00a0 Um – no.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d try Sunday.<\/p>\n
Picked up Sydney Ellen at 7:45 in the morning from a friends house after the Jonas Brothers concert (in her words “The best concert I’ve ever seen in my entire life”), had breakfast at a luxurious Denny’s, and headed to the Northridge mall.\u00c2\u00a0 Only 11 people in line – but this was 2 HOURS before the store opened at 11am.\u00c2\u00a0 Since Sydney was getting my old iPhone, she was all for waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 So we waited.<\/p>\n
11am the doors open and….nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 No movement.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out they were letting people in that were turned away at midnight Saturday night – about 10 of them – and then started letting the rest of us in.\u00c2\u00a0 One at a time to not just buy, but “activate” the phones in the store.\u00c2\u00a0 I assume this is to keep people from getting a phone without a contract, and then Jailbreaking it to use with another provider.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a major PITA.<\/p>\n
Finally our turn came, and the whole process to 15 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Time to play with the over 500 apps available and more coming every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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