iPhone 3G Launched
The long wait is finally over, the iPhone 3G has finally reach our shores. At 12.01am this morning, Singtel launched the much coveted phone at its Comcentre headquarters amidst rather toned down and much controlled fanfare.
Unlike iPhone 3G launches elsewhere, which saw fans queue up for days beforehand, the first official iPhone 3G user in Singapore only had to queue for about 12 hours when he was the first to arrive yesterday at the queue line at 12.45pm. At 10pm last night, two hours before the launch, there was, according to SingTel – 81 in the queue – an anti-climax to say the least.
SingTel’s launch of the iPhone 3G was by reservation-only, meaning, if you had gatecrash the party uninvited, you won’t get the iPhone, no matter how early you came. Those burly man in tight-fitting “Security” shirts, which probably numbered more than the number of customers, will come after you so fast to hurl you out before you can say “iPhone 3G”! As I wasn’t invited to this “history-making” event, I’m not going to risk my life and limbs and I apologize I wasn’t able to bring you photos and videos of the launch.
Perhaps, the event was too well managed, to the point that the spontaneity and buzz that is expected of such events was missing. It was Uniquely Singapore indeed!
You could have still went down there, driven by, and taken some pictures
So the first guy showed up at 12:45, but what time did the second person show up? When the second person showed up is when there was actually a line