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Took this picture at 7am on friday morning. People waiting for the release of the iPhone 3G from Apple. There were 50 people in the queue by 8:02am.

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Got a call from the o2 shop 30 minutes ago telling me my iPhone 3G 16GB is ready to collect! Straight in the car and within minutes it’s in my sweaty palm (we’ll not that sweaty). Now it seems that the Apple servers can’t cope with the registration of 100 000’s of iPhones. I now have no phone until it registers. Is there no end to this debacle!

There’s going to be some serious questions asked after this day!

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Well i was there at 6am (well 6:15am) outside o2, Forster Square Bradford. 11 People ahead of me, some of which had been there since midnight, hoping to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. I saw 1 person walk out with it before me. Seems the same story as monday, system down, can’t process your order. My 16GB iPhone 3G (1 of 10 they had) is waiting in store with my name on it!

Come on o2! This is an absolute mess!

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I’ve just been in the MobileMe system. Mail was hanging so i didn’t really see what was going on. My System pref pane has changed to a MobileMe icon. Now we’re back to the preview page. What’s going on? Did Apple release too early?

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The title says it all. Apple have just turned on their MobileMe service. Check software update for a “Apple Updates for MobileMe Support” download. It’s all good to go!

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Well monday came and went without incident. I mean there was o2 unable to plan for the anticipated volume of paying customers. Oh yes and the incredible amounts of frustration as the minutes ticked by and i was unable to order the next generation Apple iPhone i had so set my heart on. So there’s nothing to it! 6am Friday morning, o2, Forster Square, Bradford.

As expected we have reports of probable shortages for the iPhone in both o2 and Carphone Warehouse. I for one aren’t risking weeks worth of waiting, i’ve waited long enough. The conspiracist in me sees Apple holding back stock of the iPhone to generate lots of free hype, but i don’t care.

The first generation iPhone literally changed my life in just as much a way as the release of os X or the announcement of the 5GB iPod back in the day. I’ve been living for 3 weeks with the most basic phone Nokia produce while my iPhone is in for repair. It’s horrible! No more checking the weather while i eat my breakfast. Checking my email while i’m on site or at lunch. No more sneaky internet browsing on something which just pops into my head. Yeah, sure, all these things can be done on my old N80 but it’s such a faf and i’ve never had the motivation to waste 5 minutes trying to get it to work. Just get the lappie out. It’s so very much different with the iphone. Electricity chooses the path of least resistance we all learn at school. So it is with technology, we want it easy, if i can check the weather in seconds when i put the kettle on why would i mess around getting my laptop out. I’m telling myself the iPhone 3G will do the same to me.

The app store will bring a plethora or innovative applications which will change everything. Who knows, but without it in my hands i’ll not be able to see how much i ignore the constant reminder from my location aware todo list that i really have stuff to do. I imagine though that super monkey ball and not the weather will occupy my time at the breakfast table.

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Beggars, I knew it another company who can’t get it together to test an application before they put it live. Who makes an ajax application which you have to start from scratch if you get an error! They are now out of stock online, or so the site says. Bunch of muppets.

Guess i’m waiting for weeks now until they get their act together. Why did you choose o2 Apple?

I guess you have to wonder why 1.) Apple choose o2 and 2.) Why people are going to other providers. This happened at both the carphone warehouse and o2 when the original iphone went on sale in the uk. You’d just think that someone would have learnt. How did the site manage to be down all morning but still manage to process orders?

Tell you what, we’ll send a text message at 8am to everyone who has an iphone telling them we’ll give you a free upgrade! I wonder what will happen? Anyway, rant over! I wonder how much a vodafone contract is?

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Well it’s still down an hour later. Have o2 run out of supplies and don’t know how to break the news? My only hope is that noone was able to order and there’s still plentiful supply.

It has however been reported that Apple are miffed to say the least at the use of the iPhone on networks other that their exclusive provider with only 15% of iPhone sold actually being used on the o2 network. it seems a bit strange to me for them to limit the supply of these phones. The upgrade can only be done when signing up to a new contract with o2, so why limit them?

The only thing i do know is that i want my iphone! I’m currently running on a dodgy nokia 1100 while my current 2.5G iPhone is in for repair. Help i can’t function without it!

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I wake this morning to find the golden ticket text message in my inbox. o2 have released the upgrade for the iPhone 3G! Excellent i think, with the niggling doubt in the back of my mind. “They won’t be able to cope with the demand”. I sometimes hate being right all the time.

Many failed attempts and redirections to their ‘failback’ system has resulted in o2 pulling the plug on upgrades for now. We are only but greeted with a maintenance page. Come on o2, planning and testing!

We want our 3G iPhones now! I have a feeling i’m not going to make it into the first batch. A far cry from being the first in Leeds to get my hands on one!

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