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From Thursday night:
- Meet the iCrowd at the Irvine Spectrum Apple store
- The iPhone 2.0 tweeting has begun!
- OC’s iNerds start lining up for 3G iPhones
- iPhone not 3G for some of O.C.
Now back to the post…
New year, new iPhone. Same nerd and same plan to wait all night outside the Apple store at the Irvine Spectrum to be one of the first to get my Mac-fanatic hands on the 3G iPhone.
Yep, its iGirl and right now I’m waiting for MobileMe, the 2.0 iPhone operating software, the iPhone App store and the 3G iPhone. While I wait, here’s my top 10 list of reasons why my wait this year will be better than last year. Feel free to add your own ideas in comments.
10. I can browse through the more than 500 soon-to-be-available iPhone apps while waiting in line.
9. I’m a big nerd and everybody knows it. Last year, I was just a reporter who covered Irvine news laying my nerdy side out on the blog for everyone. By now, everyone knows I’m a tech geek and that’s ok.
8. I will be pain free. Last year, I put off having my wisdom teeth taken out to save up for the $600 iPhone on a reporter budget (I finally had them removed a few months later).
7. No embarrassing videos. Because the 3G iPhone release is less of a media event compared to last year, and because my buddy Matt Degen is now full-time behind a copy desk, he will not be videotaping my nerdy side like he did last year.
6. Less waiting! The phone goes on sale in the morning at 8 a.m. instead of last year’s 6 p.m.
5. No funky tan lines. Having to wait all day in the sweltering heat last year, I ended up with bad tan lines and sun burns.
4. I get to mesh my love of Superman, journalism and electronics once again. My first iPhone is named Jimmy (for Jimmy Olson, the photographer sidekick to Lois Lane and Clark Kent). I have a new name for my 3G iPhone: Perry White, the editor of the Daily Planet newspaper. Register reporter and Superman fan, Eugene Fields, helped me come up with the new name. (Thanks for the help, Eugene.)
3. I can appreciate my current iPhone — and its longer battery life — a few hours more.
2. No sleeping outside on the ground this year. Last year, I waited 26 hours and even slept on the ground to get an iPhone. This year I plan to go out at some point during the night and a simple chair will be all I will need. No way will I wait longer for the 3G iPhone than I did for the first iPhone.
1. I’ll have my current iPhone to keep me company. Last year, I sat in line without Internet, videos, e-mail, music or other fun apps as I only had a pink Motorola Razr. And if by some horrific chance the Apple store should run out of 16GB iPhones before I can buy one, I’ll still have my old iPhone plus the new 2.0 operating system and new iPhone apps to play with all day — writing reviews for all of you!
I head to the store tonight. Feel free to join me in line. Or just stick with me all day and night as I blog about anticipation for the iPhone 2.0.
Related iPhone 2.0 news:
- More Apps for your iPhone Modmyifone.com)
- Will anyone use their iPhone to, umm, make calls? (Rob Montgomery’s blog)
- iPhone ringtones, how to save money (Two a day)
- The top 10 iPhone applications (Informit.com)
- New iPhone leaves iGirl wanting more (Gadgetress)
- iGirl’s iPhone 2.0 wrap-up: Cheaper, faster, better! (Gadgetress)
- Let the live Apple iPhone 2.0 coverage begin! (Gadgetress)
- Twitter’s alive with the sound of iPhone (Gadgetress)
- Freebies for Mac and iPhone fans (Gadgetress)
Tamara 'the Gadgetress' Chuang
Here's a list of TV/mobile companies helping consumers one tweet at a time. 
Why camp out at all? After all, there didn’t seem to be any shortage of phones during the on-sale last year. As an “early adopter” tech geek myself, I really just don’t see the need to have it within an hour of going on sale. Don’t believe the hype!
Better this year?? Did you forget that you could just walk in and buy an iphone last year once they opened up and the days after? There was no need to wait in line for hours or days. Maybe the i in iPhone stands for idiot if you waste your time inline, again. Oh, you forgot to mention even though the 3G iphone costs less the monthly fees have increased.
Hey iphone idiots ! Last year I arrived at 10 am at the Jamboree location, I was 3rd in line. Brought a cooler, magazines, and hung out til 4:00 or whatever time they released the stupid phone. The first 30 in line got a phone, and they were kind enough to let the #31 and so on that they would not be leaving with a phone that day as they knew they had 30. During the next 2 weeks I compiled a list of the top 14 reasons I hated the phone, a new reason each day, and the final straw was it isn’t grounded and when I plugged it into a professional sound system to play a song, it started sparking and crackling. This is the worst phone I ever had, and returned on the 14th day, happily getting 90% of my money back. There are 13 other major reasons NOT to buy this aweful phone. It sucks
why buy the new one? the only thing that WOULD HAVE MADE IT BETTER is if could use it as a modem and plug your labtop in while on the road. other 3g phones like the blackberry do this. thats why i am not a fan of the the new iphone and will be keeping my old one until next years mudel. hopefully it can do this, and the money i save without the increase fee rate will pay for it.
I phones suck big time.
Sure, there might be phones with different features out there. But we’re camping out because we like THIS phone. I have had my phone since launch day last year and have had zero problems. It’s truly a fun experience, and since I happen to have the time, I’ll be doing it again. See you in line Sonya!
Can’t wait to see the faces when the iPhone goes down to $49 3 months later.
Why don’t you people stop with this piece of Chinese trash? Enough already. Don’t you have something better to write about? Why is it you media people keep shoving this piece of crap down our throats? Are you all Apple Computer shareholders? What is it? Are you just trying to alienate, or at bare minimum annoy, each and every one of your readers? Please STOP! Thank you.
Haha, it only annoys you because you choose to read it. It’s not being shoved down your throat if you choose to keep swallowing.
11 - who cares? seriously, what is it with people and this dumb phone.. I agree with bum, Fed Up, etc (maybe just not quite as vehemently!)
besides even if you are a tech nerd like me, doesn’t guarantee you’ll buy anything (or in some folks’ case, everything) with a rotting fruit on it. blech… I’ll keep myPhone.
“This is the worst phone I ever had, and returned on the 14th day, happily getting 90% of my money back.”
cool story, but why not just sell it on ebay and get 100% of your money back? hmm…
I love my iPhone. I too had a Razer before and can’t imagine going back to a regular phone. Ick. Haven’t had any problems with the phone. Granted, I was peeved when Apple dropped the price but not holding a grudge. I’ll wait a year or so before upgrading.
I love my iMac 24, but I also love my Blackberry. The Blackberry is better for email, and works great for my other apps. I like Verizon better than ATT. The iPhone is a cool device nonetheless, but its not for me.
My wife is getting her iPhone today. But she’s doing it the “nongeek” way: stopping by the AT&T store on the way home after work.
Her biggest reasons for choosing the iPhone: She likes the iTouch, and she likes iTunes (which her SLVR has, but no other new phones have).
Rick should get back to slagging people off on youtube - instead of putting his sad, puny, impotent comments on a site like this!.
Go on then Rick!, go back to getting your morose kicks that way! you feeble little twat!.
Don’t these losers have jobs they need to go to instead of waiting in line?
What a bunch of sheeple.
Baaaaaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaaaa! Let me follow the crowd. I can’t think for myself. What are you doing so I can do the same thing.
I am unique just like everyone else.
Baaaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaaa!
What a joke. I guess since there ins’t a Star Wars movie coming out these sheeple have to be somewhere. Better the Irvine Spintrum than near me!