I just woke up and am sitting on the couch drinking a cappuccino and hoping that *things* get *moving* soon, if you want to live vicariously through me.

 

LOL

 

goo luck mate. Hope they have the phone you want (white/black/16GB or whatever)

 

Hey guys.

There's about 17 people here now. The employees havn't arrived yet.

The b***h in the front of the line is making it known that she is in fact in the front of the line.

We are now giving eachother numbers to avoid confusion (because people don't seem to understand the concept of a line)

Good look Jawknee, *something* will get moving I'm sure. But just to be sure, get down to Rogers to be rogered!

 

Update: there are about 25 people here now. 3 employees. They say there are more than enough for the people in line.

 

Photos, uPhone?


"I don't read books. I just look at pictures."
- Andy Warhol

 

Don't forget to ask about the upgrades

 

I am just back from the Fido main store in Montreal. Forget it!!!
They have 250 iPhone in stock and they can activate 20 per hour!!!! And.... there is about 500 persons waiting in line!!!
That mean 12.5 hours!!!

In the line, someone was talking to one of his friend that was waiting at the Fido store of the Place Versail, and they have only 8 iPhone in stock!!!

So if your not a lucky one in front of the line, forget it. It will be sold out before the end of the day....

Seams that I will have to wait again to get one....

 

Just got to work, and saw a few lines on my way:

Toronto Life Rogers store had a line that went down Yonge, and curved onto Dundas (at 8:00am.) I had an aerial view from my apt. so it looks like there may have been around 100+ people in line.

Eaton Center Fido store had ~25 people in line. I chatted with the guys at the front, and they said they were told the store had 100 iphones. I'm not sure how quickly that line is going to fill up, but I would place my bets on the fido store if you're planning to try to grab a phone this morning in downtown Toronto.

 

Meh. I can't be bothered, I have to work. I am going to wait a few weeks - see how it pans out.

 

Its been 15 minutes and the first round of people have not yet left the store, although I do see them opening iphone boxes and preparing them for the handover.

There are 6 computers here and 6 employees though so the line should move quick (after 20 mins per person or so)

 

Hahahahaha there is a computer with rogers internet on it, I went to the web browser and put it on ruinediphone.com , facing the line up.

Hahahahahah

 

that is awesome!

 

It's available for sale on Rogers.com and Fido.ca
also states:
*If you are an existing customer and subscribe to a new 3-year Fido Agreement or renew your existing agreement for 3 years, you will pay $249 for an 8GB iPhone 3G and $349 for a 16GB iPhone 3G. All customers who activate or renew their Agreement with a monthly plan of $30 or more will receive a $50 credit on their first or second invoice.

 

Its going on 35 minutes now, the first 6 customers still have not left the store.

I took pics, will upload later.

Seems there's a problem, I can hear the reps saying "mines not working" and "neither is mine" and I can hear them calling their support line.

 

uh-oh... thats not good.

 

People are getting angry. The store only got 3 16gb and they're white.

They're having problems activating over itunes, all stores are.

Its been 45 mins and the first customers still have not left.

Ps, they white gig ones come in a white box. Pretttttty.

 

The store I went to hadf only 4 16 gb and I was 5th in line, I turned down 8 gb. Stupid losers. Apple that is. Ordering on iphone over phone now.

 

Rather than start a new thread, I figured people interested would post here.

I haven't seen a single Canadian blogger who's posted form their iPhone yet, almost 2 hours after it's launch. What's up with that? Anyone else out there hear anything? Anyone got theirs up and running yet?

 

The reason why no canadian bloggers have posted from their iPhones is because iTunes has crashed.

No canadians have an iPhone yet according to the reps here

 

iTunes Failure

Just got home from Windsor Cellular with my new iPhone.

We had a line up of about 25 people, of which I was 10th. Our location only had 8 16G phones, so I missed out on that.

The long wait seems to stem from the iTunes store, which isn't responding to any activation requests. After waiting in the store for about 20 mins, the reps said we could take the phone home and activate it ourselves (which is no different, seeing as there's no response from the servers).

 

The Apple store, moments after 1 billion users push 'download' and try to get the whole series of Lost on their 3G iphones.

 

Ok, confirmed:

Itunes is down. People have to take their iphones home to unbrick it themselves.

Also, visual voicemail is included in the 15$ value pack

 

Ok, confirmed:

Itunes is down. People have to take their iphones home to unbrick it themselves.

true, was one of the first this morning in Hamilton, after 45 minutes of trying to connect to itunes, the manager finally allowed us to go home with the iphone (16gb black) in "bricked condition"

trying to connect in itunes to unbrick it but keeps timing out with error...major bandwidth overload at Apple...duhhh!!! didn't see this coming ????? dummies....

once I do get it activated, guess who is gonna call Robbers and DEMAND a $35 credit for the admin fee ????!!!!!!! I'm not paying $35 so that I have to unbrick my own iphone....

10:30 am EST and iTunes is still down..... XX)

 

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned or not but the $30/6GB is only available on a 36 month term. I'm not sure if that means only new activations are eligible for this offer.

Rogers Communications - Wireless, Digital Cable TV, Hi-Speed Internet, Home Phone

Anyone have further info?

 

It seems as though Fido dropped the SAF of $6.95 and the 911 $0.50 from the iphone plan. Rogers has done the same. All the other plans still have them though...sigh.

Makes the other iPhone plans a little more attractive, however the data overage charges would probably kill me.

 

What makes you think that the SAF and 911 fees have been dropped? They are still on Rogers and Fido website on the iphone plan descriptions.

 

The Rogers system AND iTunes is completely down now.

 

This is happening in the US as well... glad I didn't wait in line

 

And the UK > Buyers wait hours to register Apple iPhone 3G - Telegraph