How many iPhones did Engadget snag?
By Ryan Block 
posted Jun 30th 2007 5:46PM
posted Jun 30th 2007 5:46PM
How many iPhones did Engadget snag?
a. 10
b. 12
c. 14
d. 16
e. 18
Note: the 8 pictured above only represent Engadget West's stock.
The answer:
b. 12 - Engadget took home 12 friggin iPhones yesterday. Don't worry -- believe it or not some are actually going back to the store. You know what they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it love an iPhone.
Wow. I wish I had one.
just give it back to me, not the store
Lucky Bastards!
Oh wow, thats a lot of money to be spent on phones! perhaps if a particular person doesnt like their iPhone, i could have it? maybe? please!!!!
Engadget writers only make $200 a month?
they have to pay for the service too which is pretty expensive.
Joooke!
Just put them up on eBay. For whatever reason people seem to be paying upwards of $800 for an iPhone. It strikes me people can be so clueless when you can check the availability of the iPhone at your local Apple stone online. Oh by the way all locations in my area (Los Angeles) were in stock as of this morning.
Here's betting that a lot of the iPhones on eBay won't be staying in the US very long - even if they don't work properly, I'm guessing a fair few people in Europe, the Middle East and China will be buying for street cred!
I am so jealous of you guys over the pond to us here in the UK. I so want to get my hands an iPhone but will just have to wait. Still enjoy reading the excellent coverage you providing. Nice One
I have a better question, two in fact:
1) How does this contribute to news about electronics, or is it simply to show off for more page hits via repetitive (and repulsive overwhelming) iphone news
2) Who actually cares?
why all the complainin? its guna be old news in like a week or two, start ur own dang website if u want free junk. dont dis engadget tho.
Wow, which I had one..now the real question..how many of those are 8gb and how many are the 4gb? Also saw this on at&t's website...
"You can return your iPhone within 14 days for a full refund, but there is a 10%
restocking fee if the box has been opened."
...does this 10% restocking fee also apply if you bought it at an Apple Store? Anyone know?
I bought mine at an Apple Store and right after I bought it, they mentioned the 10% restocking fee.
those who return it will realize, wow, thats a whole $600 i just got back, sweet, now i can buy food.
Bastards! :))
what a lot of readers want to know is whats is up with the lag in activating the phone. can you give us some response on this issue from at&t?
I'm happy to see that even will all the hype surrounding the iPhone, Engadget still only posts the most important and relevant gadget news. So many other sites just post anything related to Apple's new phone, no matter how inane, but Engadget would never do such a thing...
We wouldn't accuse Engadget of just making up newsitems, now would we?
Because that would be weired, a blog trying to make publicity for a product. Unless, His steveness has just bought the internet.
(ah, what the hell, I don't want to be a party-pooper, I wish the folks at engadget all the fun with their playthingies as possible, nerds that you are.)
i still want to know about games for this bad boy :( i want some. and u guys just own apple dont u ;)
god someones moody today
Are you guys so serious about your gadget news that you can't stand to see anything witty or slightly funny on the pages of engadget? Geez people lighten up.
Better question, how many are yall going to return back?
lmao broke asses
Dude, it's made my Apple! C'mon now, what kind of question is that?!
iNasty sucka. Get yaself an effin' girlfriend or even a boyfriend. Maybe then you won't be such a whiney iPrick. Yeh, who gives a crap how many iPhones Endgadget has. It's their publication, so they can post whatever they effin' please. Don't like it, then eff off. You don't pay for their site. Jeez, take a chill pill. Like someone's beggin' you to be here. Start your own site, for a world record of zero hits in a friggin' year.
Huh? Who is your comment directed towards? This is a free internet (like free country) so people can go on any site they want to. If it's someone's opinion that there is too much iphone news on engadget, they're allowed to post it.
Publications get better by getting input from their readers. I'm hereby asking whoever you were telling to leave, to stay. So that cancels out the, 'no one want's you here' crap.
Now, as for the 'you don't pay for their site' business. Care to tell me who does then? I always thought the ads were targeted at me and other readers so that we'd look at them or click them so that the advertisers pay them. I count that as the readers helping to pay for the site.
Just like how if they don't like the articles they should go somewhere else, if you don't like the comments, skip them. The only sensible thing you said was the getting a boyfriend part. Everyone needs a boyfriend :p.
P.S. I've crossed out that guys name on the chill pill prescription, and put your name on it. If the pharmacist asks why it's crossed out, just tell her it was your doctors chicken scratch. Take two tablets a day and hopefully you'll calm down
P.P.S. Say no to drugs and Vote Pro-Engadget-Forums.
For the love of all that is good and holy... why must you rub our faces in it?!
The more important issue here is, did you seriously just use the word "hella"? To call somebody _else_ lame? That is hella ironic.
"You know what they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it love an iPhone."
Man, my dyslexia is kicking in again. Read that as "...you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make love to an iPhone."
Can I get atleast 1? =))
I got more :P
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/gareth1234/iphones.jpg
21 :P
*cough* iPhotoshop *cough*
If you guys knew you were returning it why the hell did you pluck down $600 an 10 hours waiting in line. Were you all hooked by the imania field of distortion. And I thought Engadget editors had more sense than this.
yea, i wish i had too many too
"i guess beggars can be choosers"
Whats bugging me is how this post came up on my "No iPhone" RSS feed.
Im slowly losing faith in this sites ability to report, they come up with drivel like the guy who returned one as news, and then cant even get their RSS feeds right.
b. 12 cuz you said so in your post post :)
just came back from a store in glendale, ca as well as called a couple other in the LA area. they were all sold out
Maybe is it time now for a nice little iPhone/Apple break?
I just took mine back too. I went back to my blackjack. That edge stinks, ince you have had 3G. Oh yeah, I forgot to say when I retuned it. That keyboard is HORRIBLE. I didnt wait in line thank god. I just walked in yesterday at 7. They had a whole stack of them. This launch reminds me of when I returned my PS3. bleh.
Looked on Ebay lately? Looks like "sellers" are losing their shirts. 8gig iPhones are getting around $500. I saw one earlier go for about $325.
Its a great day to own AAPL stock!!!
WTF is this doing on a NO IPHONE blog. Come on engadget - get your shit together. No IPHONE means NO IPHONE!!!
Can I have on for free?
nice photoshop
I'm curious, what happens to the returns, are they repackaged and sold as new ?
You guys only pay 200 bucks in month for rent? Where the hell in san francisco do you live, tenderloin?
You guys get a salary of $12,000 a year?!
That's not fair!
Y'all should get paid more for providing such entertainment for us.
Don't Send them Back have a contest best prize ever. Mega Publicity. Just a thought..
Could I got a free one! :)
wow 12 iPhones , i wish I'm one of engadget staff to test them and write a review
Better still, you could've been working for Apple and have gotten one for free, which, in my opinion, would be a lot sweeter. Then that three months of pay could be put to better things, like service. And food. And maintaining the precious bodily fluids.
I wonder what freebie Apple will be shilling out to its employees next. A copy of Leopard, maybe? Either way, I'm jealous of anybody that has an iPhone and/or an Apple employee.
WOW, That confirms how many idiots there are at Engadget....
When will people wake up? It costs for than a PS3, which at least has cutting edge tech like Cell and Blu-Ray.
iPhone, is just a phone....
Let's see how big the engadget-collection of iDildo's will be when they're brought out this christmas!!!! I'm an apple fan but enough is f*cking enough!!!!
This is a trick question. I will answer f, all of the above (70)!
Okay. There's the straw. Back is officially now broken. There's a hundred other technology blogs out there and none of them have their head as far up Apple's backside as you guys. It's a pretty phone ... we get it. Do we have to hear about every single damn one of them you bought?
Just took Engadget off my Google Reader. Have fun staring at your phones.
This is the stupidest fucking post.
you just know a few of them are going to be destroyed.
Who the hell cares? Seriously?
Who the hell cares? Seriously?
I like it!!!Very much.It's so nice, isn't it?