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U.S. iPhone Launch, More Photos, and Impressions

My phone was sitting there trying to contact the iTunes store as usual and then all of a sudden my friend called me on his lunch break and it went through! I then received that mysterious AT&T text message saying welcome ... but my phone still won't sync with iTunes etc ...

Moral of the story I guess is just keep your phone plugged in and keep trying to access it as much as possible every time you get an error message, the easiest way to do this I found (aside from the obvious un and re-plugging it in to the usb port) is to click on another part of your library like music or a playlist or the iTunes store, then clicking back down to the image of the phone and it tries the process over.

Now if just the same thing happens to my old iPhone so I can put on the bloody 2.0 as so many of us have been trying...
 
bbotte said:
Note to Jobbs:

Hey Steve, next time there is a big update to the iPhone and you want to roll out a new version of the iPhone, release the fing update a week early. What did you think was going to happen Steve? You really thought you could handle all that traffic at 8am? Bwhahahaha, and they pay you how much?
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Don't mean to be a dick here, but they pay Steve Jobs $1/year.

Regardless, Apple really screwed up here. I would hate to be a server admin for Apple. Probably haven't gotten much sleep in two days between MobileMe and the iTunes activation servers going down.
 
video

i got a little video uploading right now of the apple store @ legacy village in cleveland ohio... ill post the link in a few
 
gmcbay said:
RIM should do some parody ads "I'm an iPhone, I'm a Blackberry" and the Blackberry guy just sits there talking to the iPhone guy trying to get a response and the iPhone guy can't hear him or respond because he's asleep and underneath him there's a little iTunes progress bar and server error message.

Marketing gold!
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Given some of the severe outages RIM has had with their Blackberry service, I don't think they'd have an easy time with this.

-Zadillo
 
It's all a matter of perspective. See, I'm stuck at work until 5p. So, I could have had my iPhone charge up all day and then take it home for potential activation. Instead, I can't complain about activation because I can only complain about lack of existing iPhones in any real world store.

I guess what I'm saying is, I don't feel bad about the activation problems you're having because at least you passed step 1 - buy an iPhone.

For those who have seen Harry Potter and know what nearly-headless Nick looks like when he pulls his head off of his neck, well, that's what my Nokia phone looks like. It's about to die and I have no alternative but to get a new phone. If it dies before I get the iPhone, then I guess I have no phone at all, since this is my only phone (no landline).

:( :( :(
 
My 3g iPhone just activated; however, it still did not complete the process with the account info, so I can't sync the phone. Still not all there. Have been trying since 10:30 AM EST.
 
I got mine to work...

1st gen iphone now updated! It took me about 20 min of waiting through the -4, but now I'm updated. Music and vids are being loaded as I type.

Hang in there folks!
 
agent_zero said:
One positive, once I entered my account info in the mail program, everything sync'd from the "cloud" (email, contacts, calendar, ect.) almost instantaneously.

You will still get an error message when you plug the iPhone in (i.e., cannot connect to the iTunes store at this time), but you can start loading your music and other media. Created a playlist and things copied fine.

Hope this helps.

Good luck everybody.
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Which Mail program did you enter your account info? On the iPhone or on your Computer?

I've got 2.0 installed on my first generation phone and don't see how to get my calendars pushed.
 
kman34 said:
1st gen iphone now updated! It took me about 20 min of waiting through the -4, but now I'm updated. Music and vids are being loaded as I type.

Hang in there folks!
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Did you keep unplugging and replugging, or did you leave it alone?
 
I think this is Apple's way of telling AT&T that they should have listened to them and not gone with instore activation.. assuming AT&T were the nitwits who wanted that..
 
My experience

Woke up at 6am, in line at local AT&T store (Jersey City, NJ) by 6:25. Am ~25th or so in line. Overall line didn't grow too long, possibly 50 or so. Didn't step foot into the store until after 9am. By that time, was told that they were out of 16GB but would take orders for delivery in 7-10 days. I figured since I was doing fine with my old 8GB first gen iPhone that getting an 8GB 3G wouldn't be so bad. I'm guessing they probably had 15-20 16GB blacks to start with and much more 8GB models.

This particular AT&T store had more employees than computer terminals so while we were waiting for a terminal to open up, watched the FedEx guy stroll in with a couple of boxes on a handtruck. Store manager immediately zipped into the back room to check what had come in: more 16GBs in black and white! So I paid for my 16GB, waited around for like 40 minutes as the AT&T guys tried to activate the phones to no avail. Finally told to take the phone home and try to activate by ourselves.

So I'm currently sitting here at work waiting to get my 3G activated. Went through this the first time around and it didn't bother me much then either cause it was worth the wait. Plus it's a just freakin' cell phone. I can live without it for a few days if I had to. Not the end of the world.
 
A little over an hour...

...before the wave hits Hawaii. :)

I'm hoping that the whole "gimme now!" mentality on the mainland will have died down a little by 2PM EDT/11AM PDT, and the servers won't be getting flogged quite so hard.

Or, maybe, people will have remembered that this is also Free Slurpee Day (7/11) and go off and do that instead.

I am going to go get in line at my local ATT store. Really, I am. Honest. Soon. Maybe even as early as 07:45. And I am going to wear a t-shirt from the opening of an Apple store 5,000 miles away, just for kicks.
 
NoPhone

I waited three hours and ended up as the first person in line who didn't get a phone. I could have taken the last 8GB model but I am holding out for a 16GBer. So I went home empty handed.

I wish I were one of those lucky people sitting at home watching the iTunes store crash! You are lucky!

ATT staff really have a lot of experience (as a monopoly). There were over 100 people who were in line behind me and the manager wouldn't answer any questions with a straight answer. They were making everyone endure a sales pitch for the U-Verse product with launched in the Dayton area this week.

There were more people angry with ATT than Apple, but I have to question why they had to do a world-wide launch with not nearly enough phones to satisfy the demand they wanted.

I am certain Steve Jobs will pay for this decision.
 
betaclone said:
I'm really excited about the 2.0 update, but I'm not a huge nerd. I'd be fine waiting a couple days. My problem is that my phone is bricked and I wasn't warned that could happen before I started the update. I desperately need my phone for work and if anyone had told me "Hey, don't start this update unless you're ready to live without your phone for at least a couple hours" then I would have GLADLY waited until tomorrow or the day after. You can't blame MacRumors and not Apple for that. I love them too, but you've got to admit they screwed this up.
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Sorry to say so, but if you are so dependant on a mobile phone, then comes my question:

Why on earth do you dare to do a rather unnecessary update to your phone without knowing, if there are any serious issues?

If you need your phone for...errr...sending and receiving calls, well you didn't need v2.0 on launch day, did you?

Just ask any professional here on the boards, that use their Apple Products for WORK. The major part of them waits at least a couple of days for the dust to settle, before they jump on any point upgrade (and yes, I'm referring to stuff like going from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3). We all know, that updates can break stuff.
 
Explorz said:
Which Mail program did you enter your account info? On the iPhone or on your Computer?

I've got 2.0 installed on my first generation phone and don't see how to get my calendars pushed.
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I entered the info into the iPhones email program.
 
Well, I waited in line for 2 hours at an AT&T store, just as soon as I got to the front, they ran out of 16GB phones, so I had to place a frickin' order, which they made me use a credit card for, even though I had the damn cash right there.

They said 7-10 days, maybe 3-5. Why do I think it will be 10?????

Finally, yesterday, I got the .MAC/mobileme service, which servers have apparently crashed, so I can't even register that yet.

All and all, a red letter day:eek:
 
I downloaded iTunes 7.7 the moment it was legitimately available through software update. That helped.

The iPhone 2 rollout really started in other countries several hours, really over a half day before the USA rollout. That made the servers busy going in. The added need of downloading iTunes 7.7 for your computer, AND iPhone 2.0 on a relatively slow device, has to be a real rub.

Then on top of that the whole AT&T centric activation process, essential whether you buy from AT&T or Apple, adds further choke points.

The internet, and large company server farms, are not ready for large scale international software centric rollouts yet.

All I can say is thank goodness Apple highly crippled initial product supplies to insanely small unit numbers per location, or it would actually be worse.

Anybody want to guess how long it will take to reach product sales "equilibrium"?

I say 2-3 weeks.

Rocketman
 
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