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iPhone 3G Activation Process: 'Give them a chance to enjoy the feel of the phone'

Funny!

This is one of the funniest threads I have seen. LMAO!

How many people are going to be at the ATT store saying "Just move, I'll activate it, you are so slow!!"

I will have a few packs of hospital scrubs for the people who will be helping to unbox my iPhone. It's disappointing because I want to be the one to unwrap it :(
 
That be your right, but if you have no reason to be in this thread, then leave it.

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The person I was addressing here has removed their post.
 
johnellisdm said:
you guys... this is because iphones are like baby birds, they are imprinted to the animal they see first after hatching.

people, please please please, be very careful not to the let the iphone see the at&t employee first, or it'll keep trying to get back to at&t and it'll never really be happy living with you.

don't say i didn't warn you all.
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I think that's the best thing I've read on this site. kudos, sir
 
Possibly fake.

Hey, I'm posting this from the Apple Store in Palo Alto (You know, the one El Jobso showed up at last year) and I just asked an employee if he'd ever seen the picture at the beginning of this post... he said no. I'd have to check with more people to be sure, but I'd say it's possible that this is fake. Honestly, even though you need to activate this thing in-store, Apple's put plenty of manpower into designing the packaging for this, and if an employee and not the end user is going to open it, what's the point? /nonsense.
 
Collector here.

They don't actually tear the shrinkwrap off, do they?

I usually take a small hobby knife and, without touching the box with the knife, slit the shrinkwrap only at 3 sides of the opening. I leave the shrink on the top, and tuck the loose under..

I hope they don't take the shrinkwrap off... :eek:

(runs off screaming...)
 
I'm going to be the guy running around outside of the Apple Store knocking iPhones out of all your hands.

:eek:

:D
 
ewoods said:
So this is funny and all, but what if the person purchasing the phone isn't going to be the owner? What if it's being given as a gift or something? My original iPhone sat in the box in a closet for a month before my wife gave it to me for an anniversary present. Seems like iPhone gifting won't be possible anymore with in-store activations.
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That's a very good point...I was actually wondering about that myself
 
That is funny :) I still wonder how they're activating the devices. iTunes activation mode perhaps?

Code: 
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes -StoreActivationMode 1

Yes, that does do something. Try it yourself.
 
That headline sounds like my bedroom at night. Except substitute "phone" for something else, and "feel" for something else, keep enjoy though. Okay I'll stop. Long day.
 
I would just like to say that they did not do this with my iphone. Honestly the ATT employee's were so untrained i wanted to hop over the counter and do it for them
 
AT&T CHANGES iPhone upgrade rules at last second. Very unhappy!!!

AT&T forced me to pay the higher upgrade price for the new iPhone even though I had bought the original iPhone on day 1 last year. Three weeks ago I sold my original iPhone to raise funds for the new iPhone. But before selling, I went into the local AT&T store and they said selling the iPhone would NOT make one ineligible for the lower upgrade price. I even called into AT&T customer service and they also confirmed that I would still be eligible for the $299 upgrade price for the 16gB model. Well, today, I waited in line starting at 5:20 am only to find out the AT&T is going to charge me $499 instead. What happened was the the local salesperson changed my phone plan from an iPhone plan to a regular plan WITHOUT my knowledge or consent. This makes one ineligible for the lowest upgrade price! I find this extremely aggravating and upsetting. There were many, many other customers in line this morning who were experiencing the same issue. AT&T really doesn't seem to know what they doing and are going back on their word. It really makes me question if I want to continue to be a customer!

In addition, several of us have experienced issues with the activation process. We left the store having been told that the iPhone would activate in 5 minutes. It didn't. We have had to call into AT&T support and they are slowly getting the phone activated.

This has been a very frustrating, unhappy purchase experience. Way to go Apple and AT&T.
 
CRIIM44 said:
I would just like to say that they did not do this with my iphone. Honestly the ATT employee's were so untrained i wanted to hop over the counter and do it for them
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These were Apple store instrucitons. And they basically did it when I got my iphone 3g.

arn
 
i feel so detached...i never bonded

well ATT didn't let me take my new 3g iphone out of the box. that att rep man handled the thing, put it back in the box, put it in a bag, and handed me the bag. I barely caught a glimpse over the counter. it's like having the king screw your wife on your wedding night.
 
emsmith2323 said:
well ATT didn't let me take my new 3g iphone out of the box. that att rep man handled the thing, put it back in the box, put it in a bag, and handed me the bag. I barely caught a glimpse over the counter. it's like having the king screw your wife on your wedding night.
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You realise that bloke wasn't a real king, right??
:eek:






:p
 
caccamolle said:
if one buys the phone w/o 2Y contract committment, does that mean it's "unlocked" ?
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Not necessarily, only some providers will sell "unlocked" iPhones - the rest will sell it sim-locked, in another words, it won't accept other providers' sim card.
 
dam. I forgot to mention, my question regarding unlocked iPhone was for here in the US where the only provider is ATT.
 
I told the lady who sold mine, "Hey, before you open that up, hand it to me so I can open it, take it away from me, then give me time to bond with it, can you just wrap this up so I can play with it ASAP?" She laughed and let me do the iTunes activation by myself.

I felt like a big kid.
Haha.
 
I was allowed to remove the phone from the box. When. The guy activated it, he kept the plastic wrap on it and activated it, then handed it back to me to do as I wanted.
 
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