Sonya ‘iGirl’ Smith is at it again. She arrived at the Irvine Spectrum’s Apple store around 9ish p.m. Thursday night to camp out until 8 a.m. Friday morning NOW when the new 3G iPhone goes on sale. She’s offering updates via Twitter. Catch her live posts all night at ocregister.com/money or twitter.com/sonyanews. Here are her recent tweets:
8:03 a.m. A few people will be let in at a time. The first batch is the first 10 people.
8:02 a.m I’ll be in the second group let in the store.
8:00 a.m. Everyone is cheering.
7:59 a.m. Employees are opening the doors.
7:58 a.m. The black paper had been rolled back and the store is filled with clapping and cheering Apple employees.
7:57 a.m. 3 minutes. Much better than last year when everyone was shoving and worried about getting cut in front of.
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Tamara 'the Gadgetress' Chuang
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i’m an iphone user and longtime apple customer with several of their computers and i just don’t understand this hysteria. i guess each to their own but it’s something that really doesn’t make any sense to me. i know you’re busy buying your phone right now sonya, but if you get a chance later today could you explain to me why you waited in line and didn’t just wait until this afternoon to go back and buy one?