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Posted By: MattLFC iPhone Mania Begins - 8th Nov 2007 7:12pm
Originally Posted by BBC News
Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the UK and Germany on Friday with thousands expected to snap up the device.

Eager customers have begun queuing outside the Apple Store in Regent Street, London, despite the poor weather conditions.

But there are concerns that consumers are only able to use the phone with one mobile network.

In the UK the phone will only work on O2's network, while in Germany T-Mobile will support the device.

Sad, sad people! Gotta laugh at anyone who shows off their swanky new iPhone haha, everyone bar them knows they been had, may as well walk around with MUG written across their forehead!

raftl

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Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 8th Nov 2007 7:15pm
T-mobile network???

i might of bought it on that. nevermind, for now im not a mug.
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 8th Nov 2007 7:16pm
Nice little skit of both the N95 8GB and the iPhone by the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/ne...stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1

grin
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 8th Nov 2007 7:16pm
Originally Posted by whelan
T-mobile network???

i might of bought it on that. nevermind, for now im not a mug.

In Germany Wheels, Germany wink
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 8th Nov 2007 7:18pm
yer a no!

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Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 8th Nov 2007 7:19pm
lol
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 3:54pm
Has anyone bought one? Lol.

Were they delivered to people today, or tomorrow? I know they dont go on sale in shops till 18:00 today... which is surely weird as who wants to go shopping at 18:00 on a Friday night lmao!
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 4:46pm
its actually 18:02 the launch.

With 1hour 15mins to go noone at the oaks is even bothered. The carphone warehouse have locked there doors but noone care's lol.

I went in before and slated it and they seen there bum with me. They have 60 in store. With a crap 4gb memory. I will record the official opening of the store on my phone for you if you want.
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 4:48pm
Hahaha yeah would be great to see the mad rush... I mean errr empty shop lol.

4GB is just lame lol may as well just get a normal phone with a 4GB memory card lol.

I see Ebuyer.com are selling 16GB iPod Touches at £254.00 today!
Posted By: Pomp Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 4:51pm
Yeh wud be nice, take a snap shot if ther is going to be any ques.
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 5:19pm
Photo sent from Whelan:

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Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 5:34pm
I cant wait until those who are buying them get a grip
of the small print lol....

I wouldn't ever buy one if its right what has been posted about them.
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:00pm
we have 3 people outside waiting now.

Think they just want top ups tho lol.
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:05pm
lol
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:07pm
Haha grin

Wouldnt that be funny to see, they open the shop up at stupid hours for the launch of their new flagship product, and the only fookers who go there want £10 top ups raftl
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:11pm
So... 8 minutes in, has anyone been to buy one yet? Have they managed to activate one?

Id laugh if their activation systems broke down haha!
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:17pm
Its about now Apple should be "Shitting" Themselves lol
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:21pm
Lol both Apple and o2... I think they have grossly over-estimated the value of the iPhone brand...

Although, im not sure how much o2 paid out initially to be honest, dont think it will have been more then a million or so cos Apple are getting a big chunk of the revenue.
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:22pm
one sold
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:24pm
oooooooo did it take 22 minutes? Anyone else asked about buyin one yet?

Did the person have any weird tatoo on their forehead?

grin
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:28pm
LMAO... o2 are now selling the 16GB iPod Touch for the same price as the 8GB iPhone... or the 8GB iPod Touch for £70 less.

Talk about killing their own product haha!

http://shop.o2.co.uk/promo/ipodtouch
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:35pm
is that a dodgy repost?
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:38pm
lol yeah. Form re sub by mistake.
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:39pm
lol... any further developments at ground zero then?
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:42pm
just had a play. Internet is slow and youtube can only be used if your connected to wifi.

They really are trying to push this on everyone. I heard 2people say that they rather stick with there n95's lol yay

I still would like one in a way
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:43pm
lol, so not the mad rush and war going on that Apple were predicting then Mr Wheels?
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:57pm
wheels you just want one to play with lol
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 6:59pm
no.

They are keeping the store open 2extra hours tonight aswel.

I think that they will still have them tomoro.

Bit of a flop so far but i dont know what other store's are like.

Stil a very attractive bit of kit. I left leaving wikiwirral in the browser lol
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 7:00pm
haha nice one
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 7:00pm
bananalama
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 7:01pm
Should leave a page


"NEWS IPHONE BIGGEST FLOP EVER!
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 7:15pm
ha ha i will get sacked. I just got my final warning lol.

I will see what i can do.
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 8:16pm
well thats it.

Out of 60phones and expecting to sell 30 the end of the night total sales was 1!

Oh dear
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 9th Nov 2007 8:18pm
hahahaha raftl
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 10:18am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/ne...stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1

Omg, how did I know it was going the stereotypical BMW Mini driving unversity graduats who would be the interested parties...

They are always the mugs when it comes to trendy design!

That last couple make me laugh... you cant buy a phone contract, you can, you go to the lowest tariff possible and then you ask for something call a "final bill".

And ahem, they are staying on their existing contract, plus getting a new one, so in reality their going to end up with two contract haha!

Whatever tickles their boats I suppose...

grin
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 11:21am
lol i will pop into carphone warehouse at the end of the day and see how many they sold.
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 11:47am
Total = 2 and staff have been given them lol
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:04pm
well a full days trading is over, i checked back at carphone warehouse and guess how mant they sold today!?
Posted By: jonah Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:10pm
none
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:14pm
2

Do we get a prize? Maybe you got some iPhones to give away? The remaining 57 they threw in the bin after the abysmally crap sales?

lol!
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:26pm
The answer is

***One***

raftl

I swear im not lie'ng
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:29pm
hahaha raftl raftl
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:30pm
the icing on the cake was that it was a member of carphone WH staff smile
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:32pm
quality, I told ye it was gonna be a flop raftl

They started their January iPhone sale yet? grin
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:34pm
i might wait for a French unlocked one and chuck me t-mobile sim in it. still needs a software upgrade imo
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 8:35pm
You mean the German one Whelan, the German one grin
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 9:22pm
lol quality

Apple has to be shuddering lol
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 9:34pm
no, i mean French! it was in the paper today saying there will be loks of unlocked french ones out soon.
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 9:39pm
lol
Posted By: Mark Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 10:50pm
Originally Posted by MattLFC
You mean the German one Whelan, the German one grin
French Matty French lol
Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 11:05pm
T-Mobile only have the iPhone in Germany... France Telecom (Orange) have it in France.

smile
Posted By: Wheels Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 11:08pm
FRANCE!!!!!

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Posted By: MattLFC Re: iPhone Mania Begins - 10th Nov 2007 11:18pm
lol
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