Prince K Got iPhone

Prince K and I went back to the Beverly Center to get an iPhone.

The line was just as long as the day before, but we had the special ticket (stamped business card) to get in a separate line.

So we waited for 10 mins to be let into the store. Another guy with the special ticket came in with us, along with 5 other people who lined up today.

We waited for 45 mins until one of the Apple sales reps was able to ring us up.

He punched in Prince K's cell phone number & last 4 digits of his social security number into a hand-held POS device, made Prince K sign the service agreement into the hand-held POS device, and the iPhone was all set up. It was awfully fast, but I guess AT&T's system was really jammed up last night.

The sales rep asked if Prince K wanted to get Wireless Me service, which is some sort of email alert system. It costs $70 with the iPhone (regularly $100), but we didn't really understand it so we opted out of it. Other people were getting other CD packages, so I guess they were buying the additional services.

After Prince K paid for the iPhone, we were led to another station where a geeky looking Asian boy hooked up Prince K's new iPhone to a MacBook. I guess it was to connect the iPhone to iTunes, but Prince K didn't know his login ID. We asked the geeky looking Asian sales rep to convert the iPhone into Japanese, and it was done really fast.

After that was all done, we shopped around the Apple store for accessories. Prince K wanted to buy a case & screen protector, so the iPhone won't get scratched.

Of course we were geeking out over the packaging of the iPhone. Every purchase came with a box-like bag, printed on a pretty thick card stock paper... with silver foil stamp for the "iPhone G3." Lots of money being spent on something that will eventually become trash (altho people will hold onto it for 3 months or so).



The language option is a neat little feature that other smart phones really don't have. Especially if you're Prince K who can't speak a single word of English even after living in the US for 3 years...