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justforsneaks said:
there are fools lining up for the iPhone 5 right now at the 5th Avenue store a week before it drops
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Some of them are being compensated one way or another.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09...rtunebrainstormtech+(Fortune+Brainstorm+Tech)

FORTUNE -- In the popular imagination -- and in Samsung TV ads -- the people willing to wait in line for days to buy the newest Apple (AAPL) gewgaw are hopeless fanboys and fangirls who need to get a life.

That attitude is so 2007.

Today, occupying a space near enough to the front of an iPhone queue to draw media attention is a commodity with tangible commercial value.

The two guys from Kent camped out in front of Apple's Covent Garden store in London, for example, are hoping to raise thousands of pounds for Cancer Research UK.

And each of the seven New Yorkers we met in front of the big glass cube of Apple's Fifth Avenue store on Sunday -- five days and nights before the iPhone 5 goes on sale -- was there on business of one sort or another.

#1 and #2: Hazem Sayed, 54, and his marketing manager Sage (short for Sagittarius), 31, set up camp Thursday at 8 a.m. -- eight days early -- to promote a social media startup called Vibe. Sayed describes it as a tool "to create ad hoc communities of people who happen to be in the same place" -- like an iPhone line. He's invited local developers to use Vibe this week to demo their mobile apps (through a projected image on the sidewalk in front of the growing crowd) and he'll invite the people in the queue to vote -- through Vibe -- for their favorite. "It's a real blue-collar app," says Sage, whose resume includes opening up empty buildings for squatters and doing logistics for Occupy Wall Street. "Jet setters don't get the app because they don't have a neighborhood."

#3 and 4: Jessica Mellow, 27, and Keenen Thompson, 22, are old hands at this. We met them last October when they were Nos. 2 and 1, respectively, in the iPhone 4S line. (See 17 days in the iPhone line: Wet, cold & smelling like Cheetos.) Mellow, who makes a living doing promotions and movie screenings and does body painting (as an artist and model) on the side, is blogging about her experience this week at iphonewhatever.com. Keenen, who worked at Apple retail for a 2.5 years, is now the assistant to a Conde Nast fashion writer. Last year their line-sitting was subsidized by a stipend from Gazelle, a Boston-based company that does a brisk business buying old iPhones just before the launch of a new one. This year Gazelle is doing it again, paying for Mellow and Thompson's iPhone 5s and providing food, drink, camp chairs, sleeping bags, Gazelle-branded t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, wrist bands, and, in case of rain, a tent.

#4, #5, and #6: Jackie Lin, 15, Brian Ceballo, 18, and Joseph Cruz, 19, lucked out. Lin thought he'd hold a early spot in line and sell it to someone with less patience and more money. Ceballo and Cruz, who are cousins, wanted the new phone, but as aspiring musicians (pop, R&B and hip hop), they also hoped to get some of that good free publicity that attends an Apple launch event. All three lucked out when Gazelle showed up and offered to support the first five customers in line. Sayed and Sage, who had their own Vibe thing going, passed. These guys snapped up the offer, and when I met them they were all decked out in Gazelle gear, down to the bright orange wristbands. Lin, meanwhile, has changed his business plan. As long as Gazelle paying for the iPhone 5, he's going to keep his spot and the free phone.
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Naked is the only way to rock the iPhone, but doing it since the OG. Cases are stupid and I just end up taking them off anyway.
 
So Verizon is suppose to activate their 4G towers in my town before long, but until then none of the retailers can sell the Verizon iPhone 5. I went with AT&T but am having second thoughts. The real only saving grace is the fact that they do simultaneous voice and data.

My AT&T iPad stays on EDGE when I'm back home (DC). Or at least it did a few months ago. And the reports of dropped calls got me a little nervous.

Should I just wait until Verizon rolls out 4G service in my area or just stick with AT&T (already reserved at Best Buy)? It seems like the bill will be about the same with each carrier ($90 - $95/mo).

AT&T to Verizon transplants, and vice versa, please chime in.
 
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balloonoboy said:
So Verizon is suppose to activate their 4G towers in my town before long, but until then none of the retailers can sell the Verizon iPhone 5. I went with AT&T but am having second thoughts. The real only saving grace is the fact that they do simultaneous voice and data.
My AT&T iPad stays on EDGE when I'm back home (DC). Or at least it did a few months ago. And the reports of dropped calls got me a little nervous.
Should I just wait until Verizon rolls out 4G service in my area or just stick with AT&T (already reserved at Best Buy)? It seems like the bill will be about the same with each carrier ($90 - $95/mo).
AT&T to Verizon transplants, and vice versa, please chime in.
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I don't see why the retailers wouldn't be able to sell the iphone 5.  That doesn't make sense.  The phone is capable of downshifting to 3G or even Edge if necessary.  You should be able to buy the phone that has future-network capabilities. 

If you can buy the iphone 5 (and you should be able to) get it.  As to verizon or AT&T, well, you're experience in your own market is gonna be different then everybody else's, so just ask people around you who have each carrier if they are satisfied with their service.
 
The A6 processor is comparable to the Tegra 3 ? Damn that thing is gonna get smoked by the Snapdragon S4 Pro Quad core 
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Can't rock it nude. I'm always getting e-mailed or texted at work in the office running around conference rooms/different floors. I'll drop and break the sucker.
 
Still Itachi said:
balloonoboy said:
So Verizon is suppose to activate their 4G towers in my town before long, but until then none of the retailers can sell the Verizon iPhone 5. I went with AT
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I don't see why the retailers wouldn't be able to sell the iphone 5.  That doesn't make sense.  The phone is capable of downshifting to 3G or even Edge if necessary.  You should be able to buy the phone that has future-network capabilities. 

If you can buy the iphone 5 (and you should be able to) get it.  As to verizon or AT&T, well, you're experience in your own market is gonna be different then everybody else's, so just ask people around you who have each carrier if they are satisfied with their service.
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It's some kind of restriction placed on retailers that they can't market products where there isn't service.

I have asked and most of them like it, sans the extended data coverage. We've been promised Verizon service down here for some time now and it sucks that it isn't up and running on the eve of their biggest phone's launch.
 
balloonoboy said:
So Verizon is suppose to activate their 4G towers in my town before long, but until then none of the retailers can sell the Verizon iPhone 5. I went with AT&T but am having second thoughts. The real only saving grace is the fact that they do simultaneous voice and data.

My AT&T iPad stays on EDGE when I'm back home (DC). Or at least it did a few months ago. And the reports of dropped calls got me a little nervous.

Should I just wait until Verizon rolls out 4G service in my area or just stick with AT&T (already reserved at Best Buy)? It seems like the bill will be about the same with each carrier ($90 - $95/mo).

AT&T to Verizon transplants, and vice versa, please chime in.
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well thats a lie, and a stupid one at that.

why wouldnt they be able to sell you the phone? regardless if 4G is up or not? half the country doesnt even have 4G :rofl:
 
I find it really weird that they haven't released the size of the battery, only the estimated talk time, standby time, usage, etc. With 4G speeds on this device, this could be a huge issue.
 
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Until there's another phone that does numbers like iphones do and have people lining up outside stores a week before, then those ads mean nothing. I think Samsung is doing a lot of great stuff with their phones but they could have a million more features and a lot of people would still choose apple. No mobile company stays at the top forever (nokia, motorola razrs & sidekicks, blackberry) so things might be different in a few years.
 
I'm kind of curious how Apple is going to market this phone, seeing as how it has no new "wow" feature.

I mean, 4 was facetime

4s was Siri.

The only thing that even makes sense would be to tout the LTE capabilities.
 
Still Itachi said:
I'm kind of curious how Apple is going to market this phone, seeing as how it has no new "wow" feature.

I mean, 4 was facetime

4s was Siri.

The only thing that even makes sense would be to tout the LTE capabilities.
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LTE, and the display and A6 chip

But honestly, the new features won't matter. Because at the end of the day,

User Experience >>>>> Latest bleeding edge features. 

People still don't get that that's all the masses care about. User Experience.  They already know that's what they're getting when they get an Apple product. 
 
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^ incipio feather or incase snap most likely...if they make those same products for the 5.

I'm a fan of adding minimal bulk...just want the scratch protection
 
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