It's pretty gross in NY right now -- sure, you've seen rain before, but you've never really experienced it until you've seen the grit and determination of these city folk wandering around in a light downpour with their $500 umbrellas. That's why it comes as zero surprise to see that despite the ongoing drizzle, a few brave souls have gathered in front of Apple's flagship store to be among the first in the States to get an
iPhone 3G S tomorrow morning. Sure, they could've pre-ordered for delivery and stayed dry, but what's the fun in that? So far it's four friends from
The iLife blog keeping each other company, with plans to upgrade one of the crew's original iPhones (for that attractive full subsidy price). These guys also braved the mayhem of the
iPhone 3G launch, and who knows if they'll wise up before the next one. By 7AM tomorrow they'll have spent 24 hours in the elements -- quite a lot of commitment for a phone, but hey, that video recording bit is pretty neat, and male bonding is forever. Meet these guys and their cloud-sent adversary on video after the break, and check out the read link for their ongoing liveblog of the launch -- naturally courtesy of some iPhone 3.0 tethering.
posted Jun 18th 2009 1:49PM
I sure hope that's unnecessary. I have one reserved (first smart-esque phone) but can't go pick it up until 2:30 PM tomorrow.
aren't you supposed to capitalize the D? example: iDiots
"I sure hope that's unnecessary."
Unnecessary? Yeah, I think it is... Greg Packer isn't even there.
The reality of Apple users compared to ones in adverts is always funny
HAHA... yeah I think that guy on the left sums it all up pretty nicely.
so this is what apple fanbois look like
*shudders
Hey, the apple store looks like a borg cube.
I bet those iSheep love it!
They can all *FapFapFap* together under those umbrella-ella-eella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-eh eh eh oh... (where is Chris Brown?) playing 16GB(less when formatted) of crap music waiting for another 16 GB
Ella-ella-oh-a...
in the video they say they have already pre-ordered the new iphone but wanted to "wait in line for the experiance"
fanboy madness
What a bunch of tards!
Waiting if line for a stupid Phone when people are waiting in line for Food in the same city.
Great priorities iSheeple!
Now I know what Zak and Paul Chapel look like.
You poor jealous iPhone-haters. Who cares if it's unnecessary? These are the Apple loyalists. We do this kind stuff just for the fun of it. Just to be photographed, schmooze with the celebrities, talk Apple dominance chitchat, etc. Everyone in the cult gives high fives and secret handshakes. You do this for the love of Apple, Macs, iPhones and iPods. If there was a blizzard or a tornado, we'd still be sitting outside of the stores to show support. That's one thing PC users don't have. Loyalty. They just go to any store with the cheapest brand and cheapest price and say "woohoo".
Undoubtedly 500,000 (possibly as many as 700,000) iPhones will be sold over the weekend. Why not? The iPhone is the easiest smartphone to use and with 50,000 apps, the most versatile.
Come on down to the Apple Cube Store and get on your knees while you swear your allegiance to Steve Jobs and Apple and I may even show you the secret handshake.
I'll tell ya one thing. There sure won't be just 20 iPhones to a store. This is the big time for a company with 29 billion in reserve cash. None of that Palm "all four Pres sold out, come back next week" crap.
@iphonerulez
Another use for those photos: A visualisation of what wankers like you look like.
Cheers!
@iphonerulez
Loyalty is for Nazis--not gadget-lovers.
@iphonerulez
"The iPhone is the easiest smartphone to use"
Good thing too, if you are lining up for a product for which there will be no shortage; and rabidly loyal to a consumer product manufacturer then you are likely not smart enough to figure much out on your own.
Hey - you fu&*#ng idiots - you do know that iphonerulez is just mocking Apple loyalty, right?
Not sad at all.
I love how he included the Pre in his rant. Just giving it more publicity as being the iPhone's best competitor. Good job.
They look exactly how I imagined iTards would look like.
When iLook at that picture, iShudder.
Looks like Apple didn't pay for many folks this time around.
Apple: it's a down economy, people are cheaper than last year.
Prediction: Apple sells 90K units over the weekend. T-mobile annouces the Magic/G2 with a 5MP camera and Android 2.0 for $179 -- 3GS owners respond with Flintstone's "lollipop sucker" faces.
iphonerulez:
you just reinforced why people like you and those on the video are complete douches...i feel sorry for the normal people with iphones as they will always be compared to you fools
...I thought people who used Apple's products were supposed to be good looking? What happened?
These people are probably hired by apple; to pretend some people actually care the 3G S is arriving...
@james rose
Wow you're an idiot. See my comment before this one as to why.
@GRAMMAR POLICE,
most of the haters are such rubes they fall for the reverse-trolling each time!
it's pretty funny actually.
Perhaps but we don't care.
In other news: Fuck you.
Daisy chain in 5...
At first glance something just didn't look right regarding the picture attached to this post. I thought I had figured it out after watching the associated video and discovering the chick in the middle with the big calves was actually a guy. But then after realizing they were all sitting out in the elements for 24 hours to get a new iPhone (that's suppose to make life more productive) I figured it out.
"Joe, you wanna stop at the mall tomorrow on the way to the game? I can't Marge...I just checked my schedule on my new handy dandy iPhone and it looks like I'm scheduled to be spending the day sitting out in the rain instead."
@ iphonerulez
I have brand loyalty. It's called "Lenovo owns your high-fashion pieces of shit that can't take math notes worth a damn."
/hugs my Lenovo X200T Tablet PC
Yeah well, all of you are dumb. My watch has a built in calculator... TAKE THAT!
haha,
nice try but you're still a rube.
iLife? More like iNeedToGetALife.
Hey iphonerulez,
You have no idea man. First of all I use an iPhone and a PC. You are straight up wrong about PC users and loyalty. We have loyalty, we don't go buy the cheapest thing on the block. I buy Thinkpad X-series only. Because I believe Aluminum is for Coke cans. Magnesium alloy is for top-end laptops. I would stand in the rain for a new Thinkpad X-series, but they don't really believe in this need for people to stand in line in the rain crap. I just order it and get it.
Wow.
1. Fans who like to wait in line for a gadget they want, although it's likely unnecessary for getting one.
2. Bitchy girl-dicks who take pot shots at them on the internet.
I gotta say, this time, I'm less annoyed by the people waiting in line.
idiots...
That just about sums it up...
agreed
Or genius...
Never underestimate the power of publicity, even bad, to hawk your site and increase sales or ad revenue.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO they have no ads on their site and sell nothing.
Ok. iDiots then.
It's great we have photos so we know who to shoot come the revolution.
iBums, iTards, iDiots, iLosers, iHaveNoGirlfriends, so many i's can be used to describe these people.
Not only pants... they need a girl too
isn't the one with a huge smile just a really ugly girl? "So I called up my buddies and was like, hey wanna go sit out in the freakin rain all thursday and night and get mugged by hobos so I can upgrade my phone? "
"Sure! we've got nothing else to do with our pathetic lives! Why not?!?"
my sentiment exactly. while i sleep in a nice warm bed tonight to be woken up by ups buzzing the door and delivering it these morons will be sitting in this stupid weather. (speaking of which, its f$#%@ING june, enough!)
@Captain Planet
But these are the cool guys that we need to emulate.
@Jay Voorhees: i thought that was an ugly chick too!
anyway, these guys are frickin' geeks...and that's coming from a geek. i am officially PROUD not to own an iphone.
"idiots..."
you read my mind.....................
I understand "Bros before Ho's" but these pail seal colonies are getting rediculios. Dudes, get some sun. Better still, get a girlfriend. It will change your iLife. Just sayin...
PS See, NYC is one of the safest cities now contrary to popular belief. Back in the day these dudes would have been easy pickins for Bx/Bk types...
Geez. I had no idea tech blogs devolved into people being such a**holes to others they've never even met. Focus on the products, stop hating!!!
@Jon: you just called us assholes and you're telling US to stop hating? somebody needs a dose of their own medicine...
That girls umbrella is going to direct water direct into the guys ear...and hopefully his iPhoney too...
That girls umbrella is going to direct water direct into the guys ear...and hopefully his iPhoney too...
or is that a guy...they should have gone for G1's----androidgenous
wow
I really hope those kids don't visit engadget
@Jon
you must be confused. Engadget isn't a tech blog about new gadgets it's a hate blog where people abuse new gadgets and each other. It's genius really.
U might be looking for ars technica and clicked the wrong favorite.
all i can think of is why the hell is the guy wearing shorts in that weather. and why the fu' does he have the fashion faux pa of big woolly socks and short.
that's determination if you can stand a whole day in the rain, for a phone...
It's spelled fashion faux pas
oooh, spelling faux pas!
-Taylor
@Taylor
Your engadget username is already sufficient. You don't need to add your name to the bottom of comments..
get a life
And a job
a brain.. to use other products except apple...
And a marmot named Randall. Marmots are so cute!
-Taylor
@ DKing
whats wrong with apple?
hhmm.... many things..... you know there is world beyond apple... just give others a chance... there are many other good mp3 players and if money is not a problem there are better once and common don't say to me that apple is best at anything they do..
@ murmermer
It's rotten.
To quote DKing from another one of his posts; "Geography and Finances" prevent him from owning any. So I smell jealousy.
@shotgun
it is not jealousy, I mean I can't judge mac without trying one and what I meant was that I live in central asia where there is no apple at all and my father just won't buy me one cuz I just got my asus g50....
Waiting in line for a phone, just have some patience and buy it later ffs, it's not like it's a limited edition or something :s
Man, those people must really need to make a phone call.
wouldn't waiting in line for 18 hours show they have patience?
Publicity stunt to get plastered on the blogs.
And from what I can tell, they are all teens. Likely paying with their parents cash.
@ Look
its a publicity stunt because they want to get an iPhone the day it comes out? or because you hate apple and your just trolling?
@murmermer, it appears they hired a bunch of hobos and gave them free umbrellas.
@Templarian
Hobos that can get a 2 yr contract on an iPhone?
Sure!
@Puggs, no one said they were getting an iphone... probably just some food once and a while and as stated an umbrella.
Publicity stunt? I hope not, because Apple fanboys like these is exactly what makes me hate owning an Apple product!
you make me hate owning an apple product- why do you have to judge people that get excited about new products that work?
@rturius: That's a pretty lame reason. I don't use Google because others use it. I use it because it works--just like I don't use Apple products just because others use it. Think for yourself.
My thought as well... I mean Apple umbrellas? WTF?
are some of those actually Apple umbrellas? like iBrellas?
Templarian: I take offense to that!
:p
Someone should tell them that it's barely different than the 3G
Yep, hardly any difference. Oh except that almost every component of the entire phone is upgraded. Yeah hardly any difference once you ignore that little detail.
really what's the same so I can tell them? because by your logic there's no difference between any 2 winmo devices or between the Nokia 5800 and the N97. I mean if new hardware and extra software don't count as an upgrade I dont know what does.so please clarify why they shouldn't be excited about the new 3G S.
If you're willing to stand in line in the rain for slightly upgraded internal components and a slightly less shitty camera, then you are a massive tool.
Good luck trying to ask someone outside of this website what the difference is. "Uhh, its totally got da speeds?"
From engadget:
The 3GS compared to the 3G is "a very, very similar phone (remember, you're paying for a speed bump, a compass, and video recording)."
Go back to suckling on your Apple pacifier.
They are probably lining up for the 8GB 3G....
@Zak Rather the fact of difference, is the degree of change really worth wasting 24 hours of your life?
But you get a compass!
Yessssss.
Lets all waste 24 hours to go get a phone thats a split second faster and has a compass!
/sarcasm
Honestly, all this talk about every internal part being different is ridiculous. If you watch the video engadget uploaded, its like a 3 second difference on game loading. That's it.
Whooop dee fuckin doo.
Nothing to see here. Keep it moving.
I don't understand how it can be faster. For years now, all I've heard from iPhone fans is that the phone has NO stuttering and is silky smooth. They jump on WinMo devices because their might be a half second delay in opening an app or moving to a new screen.
It's funny how most iPhone owners also have spent 2 years telling us how tethering, MMS, copy and paste, video recording were all worthless features (all features present on most WinMo devices for years now). Now that you can do that with 3.0 and 3G S, iPhone users are touting the devices many new exciting features.
"remember, you're paying for a speed bump, a compass, and video recording"
Someone should show up with a box of cracker jacks and webcam, if your lucky you can get all those things for under $20.
Actually, the 3G was hardly any different than the original iPhone, that much is true. GPS and 3G networking (which was a fail with AT&T).
The 3G S is substantially different that either of it's predecessors is also true. New CPU, more RAM, more storage, faster graphics processing, magnetometer, video recording, 3MP camera with autofocus, video editing.
@bjsguess Most iPhone users had no idea what tethering was. Many still won't.
but they get a compass that can help them get home! especially in the rain
Let's see, the following components got upgraded:
Display (vs. 1.0 and I've read its slightly warmer than the 3g screen)
Screen (Coating)
Cell Radio (7.2mbps)
Speakers (vs. 1.0)
Compass
Camera (3MP)
Bluetooth Radio (This may have been a software update... can't remember)
Storage (now 32 GB)
Memory (2x ram)
Graphics Chip
Better Mic
Aside from the the casing, I don't think the phone's have anything in common. Is it worth waiting in line in the rain for a day? Nope... Is this a meaningful hardware upgrade? Yeah I think so.
Why on gods green earth do you want to wait in line in the rain, when you can comfortably wait for the iphone to be delivered to your doorstep? i dare say these people are losers, but im sure lots of you camped out last year, or will be camping out tonight and if i hadn't pre-ordered from apple i'd be right there with yall too, so i aint hatin. hope theres plenty of iphones for everyone waiting.
btw, these people have no sense of fashion. orange boots with dark clothes? i mean, HELLO! and the long hair on guys is so 90's.
Tube socks with shorts... fail. They make New York look bad.