Apple store is down: 16GB iPhone imminent?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted February 5th 2008 6:24AM
posted February 5th 2008 6:24AM
Listen up pilgrims. It's Apple's favorite product launch day -- Tuesday -- and we're once again sitting on a pile of rumors. So what's it going to be? A 16GB bump to the iPhone, new MacBook Pros running Intel's latest mobile Penryn processor with enhanced multi-touch touchpad, or maybe a few more countries added to the iPhone rollout in Europe? Who knows. Really, anyone know?
Who cares. Really, anyone care?
I care. If you don't you should find another article to post on.
I care, too. Now go whining to the nearest Zune thread.
I care to dammit if you don't care then get out of here i hope the new mac book pro's come out because I've been waiting for along time and i just want to know how they have changed
Apple fanboys care
I would care more if they whipped 3G out of their hat. Not going to happen. But now you can squeeze even more episodes of lost onto your iPhone
Nope.
So excited I had to F5 my pants.
wow, 2 iphone articles in 2 hours. i can imagine the engadget fanboy hammering refresh at the apple store 24 hours a day, hitting the big alert button whenever it goes down.
This would piss me off. Not two months after I pop for it. Not that I would have a right to get pissed off . . . Maybe I wouldn't be pissed if it costs $200 more than the 8 gig'er.
You think with all these fanboys apples market share still wouldn't be so minuscule...
I've always wondered how apple gets to much news coverage when there market share is still under 10%
uh oh, now the fanboys are really gonna attack me.
You care, apparently, enough to read the article and comment about.
My money is not on a new iPhone, but on a hardware refresh of the iMac as it is approaching the end of it's guestimated cycle.
16 GB added, guys!
16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod touch.
I care, dammit...I care. I hope the new 16GB iPhone comes and slaps you upside the head for disrespecting it.
New MBPs would surely get a keynote styled presentation.
No they wouldn't, if the update were only a minor one (spec bump, new trackpad etc.).
that last macpro revision with a santa rosa update never got a keynote release.
The UK store is still up
France and Germany are still up too, 16GB iPhone is unlikely. However, Canada is also down????
Canada store is down because it's hosted by the same servers that the US store is.
UK Store is down as of 11:52am GMT. Just checked.
Australia Store is still up
shame aus stores are still up - we'd like an iphone please apple... anytime your ready aye.
Apple's response: any time your networks are ready.
But they'll never be ready for the old crappy 2G connection... Telstra is the only phone network with CDMA and they're shutting that network down as its "too old and costly" which is why Apple needs to drag the iPhone into some hardware that reassembles something worthwhile
Glen,
iPhone is not CDMA.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.
Apple store is down! Tell your friends!!!!
UK and Aus stores still up :\
This is not news.
Agreed.
Then don't post. No one is forcing you to read and post on this.
Just been on to my mate who works at an O2 store, he confirmed that they recieved a few 16gb iPhones in this morning. £330 is the UK cost.....around £280 too much for the UK market
Was excited, but then I realised UK store is still up. :(
C'mon 30GB iPod Touches with MB updates all around.
A 16 GB iPhone wouldn't be bad either.
AKBlade13
A 32GB Touch would be more realistic, since flash generally uses base 2. Well, it has to, as far as I know. 30GB would take a mix of a 16GB, 8GB, 4GB and 2GB chip to work. They won't put that many chips in a Touch. With 32GB (or a 16GB 3G iPhone in Canada) I'll consider buying a new music player/phone. Until then, no dice, Apple.
is the iphone coming to middle east!!
plz plz plz
It's already there!
Plenty of places you can still get a grey market unlocked iPhone, but be prepared to pay a pretty penny for it... Not unlike the official contracts really :)
Canadian store is down. Hopefully good news for us.
Well the UK store isn't down and we have the iPhone, so I doubt it's anything iPhone related. Maintenance anyone?
Only matters if it is a 3G 16 gig iPhone. Otherwise it's just one more ploy to get everyone to buy iPhones right before they release the 3G version so that everyone will want to rebuy them.
in romania in the newspapers it says that orange is gettin ready to put iphone on sale
Engadget, I propose a meter on the sides that monitors the status of Apple Store, XBox Live etc that often dominate the news but really is not really news
Quite a good idea.
It could even get a permanent comment thread (purging comments older than 30 days or something). Apple Store down news really annoy me and ruling out all Apple news would not be my thing.
So it's either this idea or if I take the "then don't read it" fanboy advise, then the end of Engadget reading. (I liked Gizmodo better, but they post even more iPhone crap*.)
*crap = non-news, like a new PS picture of anything iPhone
I bought an 8GB iPhone almost 5 months ago and they dare release a 16GB iPhone now - can I sue Apple......oh wait......I don't stay in the US so no.
Yes, how dare they improve their product!?
Blimey, the Apple store goes down more regularly than their stock price.
Ok. i just bought the iphone a week ago. if apple comes out with this new 16gb iphone im just gonna have to return my 8gb iphone. i really dont care if they charge me 40 bucks for returning the used iphone...twice the memory is well worth it.
hopefully they lower the price of the 8gb iphone and keep the price of 399.99 for the 16gb iphone...i'd like that :)
The UK store did go down for a short while this morning but came up and I cant see any difference. I did notice that the iPhone is now referred to as the iPhone 8GB rather than just the iPhone but cant remember if thats the way its always been?