Comments on: Updated: iPhone 3G S Awesome For Everything But Calls – Activation Issues Plague Many http://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/19/iphone-3g-s-awesome-for-everything-but-calls-activation-issues-plague-many/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Cell Phone Junkie Show #160 « Mickey Papillonhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/19/iphone-3g-s-awesome-for-everything-but-calls-activation-issues-plague-many/#comment-46136 The Cell Phone Junkie Show #160 « Mickey Papillon Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:19:51 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=34338#comment-46136 [...] iPhone upgradability status Tethering coming for iPhone to AT&T AT&T denies price rumor iPhone 3G S upgrades going slow for many 3G S sound issue Apple issuing $30 iTunes credit for activation issues T-Mobile Dash 3G launching [...] [...] iPhone upgradability status Tethering coming for iPhone to AT&T AT&T denies price rumor iPhone 3G S upgrades going slow for many 3G S sound issue Apple issuing $30 iTunes credit for activation issues T-Mobile Dash 3G launching [...]

]]> By: runningmanhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/19/iphone-3g-s-awesome-for-everything-but-calls-activation-issues-plague-many/#comment-46052 runningman Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:23:23 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=34338#comment-46052 Dan, arrived Apple store in Dallas at 6:20 am. They were supposed to open at 7:00 am, but fooled everyone by opening at 6:00 am and people were already being processed pretty quickly. Nice. I had pre-reserved a phone and they did indeed have two lines, one for pre-reserved, one for everyone else. Concierge said they were taking a ratio of about 7 from pre-reserved to about 3 from the walk up line. I was in the store at about 7:00 am, out by 7:15 am. They hooked the new iPhone 3G S to iTunes and it activated it in about 10 seconds. Good to go. Last year I waited about 3 hours in line alone. When I left, they had a line that would have been that long easily. My local AT&T store said they sold out at about 2:00 pm. I took my daughter in to activate my old iPhone 3G on her line, and by 6:30 pm when we arrived, the AT&T system was way backed up. Took an hour to get her number transferred and up and running for a simple number transfer. Interesting, the iPhone 3G 8 GB phones were selling like hotcakes. Hope yours is working now - the phone is great. One other note, they were pushing MobileMe pretty hard. Big push was the iPhone locator service. Interesting. Bill Dan, arrived Apple store in Dallas at 6:20 am. They were supposed to open at 7:00 am, but fooled everyone by opening at 6:00 am and people were already being processed pretty quickly. Nice. I had pre-reserved a phone and they did indeed have two lines, one for pre-reserved, one for everyone else. Concierge said they were taking a ratio of about 7 from pre-reserved to about 3 from the walk up line. I was in the store at about 7:00 am, out by 7:15 am. They hooked the new iPhone 3G S to iTunes and it activated it in about 10 seconds. Good to go.

Last year I waited about 3 hours in line alone. When I left, they had a line that would have been that long easily. My local AT&T store said they sold out at about 2:00 pm. I took my daughter in to activate my old iPhone 3G on her line, and by 6:30 pm when we arrived, the AT&T system was way backed up. Took an hour to get her number transferred and up and running for a simple number transfer. Interesting, the iPhone 3G 8 GB phones were selling like hotcakes. Hope yours is working now – the phone is great.

One other note, they were pushing MobileMe pretty hard. Big push was the iPhone locator service. Interesting.

Bill

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