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iPhone 3G S Launch Lines and Disassembly Photos
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So the teardowns have confirmed an ARM A8 Cortex, but I wonder what version of the PowerVR SGX is in the iPhone 3G S? The SGX520 as Anand thinks or the SGX530 as the Palm Pre has. I'm guessing they'll have to look at the graphics drivers to find out since the GPU is integrated into the SoC and wouldn't have an easy part number to identify.
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The US lines are shorter primarily because the market is saturated and restricted to one carrier. The US lines are shorter because customers cannot easily and economically upgrade to the 3GS if they are recently under contract with AT&T and a previous iPhone. The lines are shorter because of the economy in general. The lines are shorter because of PRE orders. The lines are shorter because of pre-orders. The lines are shorter because there really isn't a compelling reason to upgrade from the 3G, unless money is burning a hole in your pocket, or you are obsessed.
Happy day for new 3GS owners. Not as happy for Apple, methinks - as last year.
Here at the only Rogers store in Ottawa that is open at 8 AM in Ottawa and there is only a few people here. Alot better than last year.
Actually it does not say anything meaningful as the 3gs could be ordered online and shipped to your house or job. I work in Silicon Valley, and know at least 30 people who are getting the phone today, and not a single one is going to a store. You can't determine the volume or success of this phone by the lines at the stores. It's pointless to compare to prior years lines.
Agree - Chalk me up as one of those people who would have bought on the very first day of the iPhone if not for the carrier.
I'm basically having to wait until it comes to Verizon. Not because I love or hate Verizon; it's that all of my family and majority of friends are on Verizon (yep, I'm stuck in their "network calls are free" game).
People have to admit that it is blowing the Pre out the water though. Both from a PR standpoint as well as, most likely, actual sales. I haven't heard the Pre mentioned in the news since several days before the 3GS was introduced.
And I keep seeing the articles saying RIM is worried about the iPhone. How can they not be? Apple has one phone on one carrier and will probably sell like 5 million phones this quarter. RIM will sell like 7 or 8 million but with many different phones on many carriers. Again, how can they not be worried?
and if apple ever gets out of exclusivity with at&t, RIM will be sh#tting their pants.
AT&T Store in Center City Philadelphia on 16th Street has a couple dozen people in line.. quiet overall.
first in line at the chandler fashion center store in chandler, az. store employees working hard to get the store ready and the 3GS displays set.
the mall doors opened at 4:30...apple store manager said they would open early - at 6:15...two lines, one for pre-orders and one for "walk-ins"
the mall doors opened at 4:30...apple store manager said they would open early - at 6:15...two lines, one for pre-orders and one for "walk-ins"
but that is ridiculous becuase that is one of the busiest stores most other stores might have lines but not huge ones. ATT store here had maybe 15 people in line at 900 exacty and only 5 preorders
the first guy in line had no preorder and had shown up and camped in a tent at since midnight. I got there at 600 and I was the 4th in line (realy first becuase I had preorder).
most people were in and out in 5 minutes
it want that big a of a deal, it took me erto get my stuff set up since I was swtiching from verizon but only 25 mintues.
There will be an international difference - in the UK O2 have raised handset prices 87% over the 3G. In the US AT&T have not.
The O2 scene is pretty widely replicated elsewhere in the UK, and I believe O2 WON'T deliver it to an office address, so that isn't the reason either.
I was there at the 2G launch too - that picture would have been accurate at 9:02am then as well, NINE HOURS BEFORE OPENING. There was easily five thousand people in the queue for the 2G launch at Regent Street by the evening
If you're saying that there were 90 at peak today, then that's a pretty embarrassing failure for Apple and O2.
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Philly smooth
Like a brick of cream cheese, the Philadelphia experience just now was sooo easy! Almost eerily so
no mayor (ex-mayor) street to be seen, but I was in and out of store in 15 minutes, so maybe he was lurking..
got in at 702, phones waiting longer than any of the five of us inside, little bit of clerk chitchat, and come 715 I'm filming the Delaware river... And Camden, NJ!!
walt whitman would be happy
Like a brick of cream cheese, the Philadelphia experience just now was sooo easy! Almost eerily so
no mayor (ex-mayor) street to be seen, but I was in and out of store in 15 minutes, so maybe he was lurking..
got in at 702, phones waiting longer than any of the five of us inside, little bit of clerk chitchat, and come 715 I'm filming the Delaware river... And Camden, NJ!!
walt whitman would be happy
Okay so yeah I'm in line and NYC of course is crowded...I'm at the West 14th street store I've been in line since 7 and I'm not close. maybe around 150 people ahead of me. At least I can use Apple wifi hahaha. I'm going to post a pix in a few!!!
