Lining up for your iPhone?
BY CHERYL V. JACKSON
Retailers are planning to make the wait for Apple's much hyped iPhone 3G, which goes on sale at 8 a.m. today at Chicago Apple and AT&T store, as painless as possible.
"It's all hands on deck," said Gina Macchitelli, marketing director for AT&T, which has 11 area stores.
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The 160 N. State store, for example, will serve drinking water and have customers answer trivia questions to win prizes.
Employees will hand out order forms to to be filled out in line for quicker AT&T phone activation inside the stores. The purchasing and activation process should take about 15 minutes, Macchitelli said.
Also on sale today will be programs available through the online iPhone App Store that work with both the new and earlier model phones as well as the new MobileMe platform, which replaces the existing .Mac service.
Older model iPhones use the slower AT&T EDGE network, which the new phones switch to when the faster 3G network is unavailable.
The new iPhone operating system allows for use with Microsoft business applications, like Exchange-based e-mail. Older model iPhones and iPod Touches will need a software upgrade -- free for the phones and $10 for the Touch.
I would buy Apple under 176 a share and hold until it reaches 205 a share and then sell ! By: Mad Man
1 comment:
No phone for me.
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