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Chris Higgins
Obligatory iPhone Post
by Chris Higgins - June 29, 2007 - 11:05 PM

Mental Floss on an iPhoneWell, I’ve got an iPhone. I was going to write this blog post on it, but then I decided it was crazy enough spending three hours in line — I don’t need to spend another three hunting and pecking. Overall the experience of getting the phone was all right — it was the first time I’ve waited in line like that for a new product, and it was “only” from 4pm – 7pm (when the fifty people ahead of me had finally gone through and bought theirs). I waited at an AT&T store, and managed to get the last 8GB model they had (actually, fellow line-waiter and Portland blogger Mary Wheeler snagged it for me, as her sales person had it in-hand at the moment we both walked in). The thirty people behind us had to settle for 4GB units, I suppose.

I’m sure there’ll be fourteen million iPhone reviews on the web tomorrow (or heck, right now), so I won’t bore you with that. Instead, I’ll treat you to a blurry picture of what the Mental Floss web site looks like on the iPhone — quite nice, actually! It’s impossible to see from the photo, but the text is very legible, and of course turning the phone sideways gives you more horizontal real estate.

And here’s some launch-day trivia for you: San Francisco and New York Apple Stores have not sold out yet, two sites have already taken it apart (here’s the second), a gallery of iPhone lines around the country, iPhone is now available for sale online (with a two-four week wait), and the strangest bit of iPhone news: Philadelphia mayor John F. Street camped out for an iPhone and garnered a lot of media attention for it.

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Comments (9)

  1. One Ringtone to Rule Them All, and In The Darkness Bind Them

    posted by Johnny Cat on 6-30-2007 at 12:49 am

  2. I can’t imagine wanting to spend money on anything that badly.

    posted by Bassman on 6-30-2007 at 9:24 am

  3. awesome! give us a review of all the features asap!

    posted by David on 6-30-2007 at 10:33 am

  4. why not just buy it on a day you didn’t have to wait 3 hours in line. I don’t get it.

    posted by josh on 6-30-2007 at 2:33 pm

  5. Lol… Corporate America told us we HAD to have this nifty item, and like the brainwashed media slaves we are, we ran, frothing at the mouth, to the nearest retailer to get it.

    Seriously – we need to recognize and aknowledge the control the media has over the masses and the damage they are doing to society as a whole.

    I had the privilege of working in Africa for six weeks a few years back, and having so much to do and see, and having nothing to watch on the tv really cleared my head. It was nice to not have my senses assaulted nonstop with advertising.

    Dan

    posted by Dan on 7-1-2007 at 4:13 pm

  6. I agree with Dan. I go camping every year or so to get away from the media/technology/advertising etc… It really clears your head.

    posted by Stew on 7-2-2007 at 8:42 am

  7. Oh – I hope Paris got hers!!

    posted by priscilla on 7-2-2007 at 10:37 am

  8. Is it true that it doesn’t have speed dial??? Wow, so revolutionary, yet we have to dial the entire number? Or am I just ignorant of something.

    posted by Sheri on 7-2-2007 at 7:11 pm

  9. Yes, it has speed dial! :) It has a standard cell phone style contact list that you can click on (I have certain people listed as ‘favorites’ to save clicks). You can *also* pull up a regular ten-digit keypad if you need it.

    posted by Higgins on 7-2-2007 at 8:54 pm

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