after an entire month of waiting and excited anticipation, randy is at last the proud owner of a new iPhone. birthday and christmas presents came early this year. we'll just have to wrap it up again come those dates.
getting a new iPhone was no simple task. we decided early this week that we would go to the at&t store to pick out a new phone for me so that it would speed up the process come friday morning. when we got there, we found out that we could switch me to at&t then (sorry to my entire family, who are all still on t-mobile) and then randy would be able to switch on friday, so we decided to do it that way. i have a pretty new red phone, by the way. while we were switching, randy was casually asking about the iPhone and the guy who was helping us told us that over 5,000 people had already called about it. i'm a little skeptical about how he came up with that number, but we understood the general message: lots of people want this thing. he also suggested that randy camp out overnight on thursday if he wanted to get one on friday. randy had planned on getting there early on friday morning, but after the at&t employee's comments, he was questioning his tactics.
fortunately, my cousin david, who is also good friends with randy, also wanted to get a new iPhone, and agreed to camp out with randy. it's a good thing, too, because madeleine and i were not up for camping out and randy wouldn't have done it alone.
david and randy headed over to the at&t store at university mall around 8:30pm last night and arrived none too soon. they had about 40 people in line in front of them and as soon as they got there, the line really started getting long. here is their set up in line:
getting a new iPhone was no simple task. we decided early this week that we would go to the at&t store to pick out a new phone for me so that it would speed up the process come friday morning. when we got there, we found out that we could switch me to at&t then (sorry to my entire family, who are all still on t-mobile) and then randy would be able to switch on friday, so we decided to do it that way. i have a pretty new red phone, by the way. while we were switching, randy was casually asking about the iPhone and the guy who was helping us told us that over 5,000 people had already called about it. i'm a little skeptical about how he came up with that number, but we understood the general message: lots of people want this thing. he also suggested that randy camp out overnight on thursday if he wanted to get one on friday. randy had planned on getting there early on friday morning, but after the at&t employee's comments, he was questioning his tactics.
fortunately, my cousin david, who is also good friends with randy, also wanted to get a new iPhone, and agreed to camp out with randy. it's a good thing, too, because madeleine and i were not up for camping out and randy wouldn't have done it alone.
david and randy headed over to the at&t store at university mall around 8:30pm last night and arrived none too soon. they had about 40 people in line in front of them and as soon as they got there, the line really started getting long. here is their set up in line:
they took movies to watch on their iPods and david's macbook, and just happened to have a spot right in front of a power outlet (you can see it in the picture, next to the tree). randy had had the foresight to bring a power-strip as well, so he was pretty popular with the people around him.
45 minutes of sleep, but almost 12 hours later, the at&t store opened at 8:00 am. they were taking people in 8 at a time and they soon found out that the store had only received 42 iPhones and the 16G phones sold out really fast. even though they had both planned on getting 16G iPhones, randy and david ended up getting 8G ones because they were the only ones left. by the time they got their phones, there were only 5 iPhones left at all. phew! i would have had a very sad husband if he would have had to wait for his phone to arrive in a couple weeks. fortunately, he got one this morning and arrived home a very tired, but VERY excited randy.
i have to admit, it's pretty fun to have around.
i have to admit, it's pretty fun to have around.
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