iPhone UK Launch - A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words
At 6pm today, the iPhone launches in the United Kingdom. Remember the massive overnight queues and the unrestrained joy in Palo Alto and New York when the iPhone was originally launched? Well, here’s the scene of the UK launch in London today…
On the weekend of the US launch, there was talk (rather unrealistic as it turned out) of Apple selling a million phones. Today, Carphone Warehouse - one of Apple’s UK iPhone partners, is hoping to sell ten thousand phones. I’ll be interested to see how many buy an iPhone today, and in the coming months. Seems to me that many of Apple’s biggest fans will have already bought an unlocked iPhone from the US, and the general public’s interest in iPhone is declining.
Follow the story as it unfolds at the BBC. And here are the first happy customers…
Asam Bashir wrote:
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/09/germany.10k.iphones.sold/
Should get UK figures by Monday….
Anyone wanna SIM free E65? Install S60 3rd edition apps till your hearts content?
Posted 09 Nov 2007 at 10:28 pm ¶
simon wrote:
Cool. O2 is hoping to sell 200,000 iPhones before the end of 2007. I will be interested to see if that happens… it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch-objective.
One thing I will say, though, is that I don’t think the general public is going to be as impressed with the iPhone as Apple fans; which may put a brake on sales. A friend of mine bought an unlocked iPhone in Boston a couple of weeks ago, and brought it back to the UK.
His initial reaction? “Wow - it’s great! The YouTube application works great on my Wi-Fi network. I love the way photos rotate when you rotate the phone.” And then after a day or two… “The keyboard is really annoying to type on.” And after another day, “I don’t know what the hype is all about, it’s not that good. I think Blackberries are better if you want this kind of phone.”
Posted 10 Nov 2007 at 12:58 pm ¶
Mike wrote:
The major problem with UK iPhone is the carrier. O2 has such a poor network across the UK ( from personal experience, having attempted to connect to it from nearly every county ) that the only use for the iPhone might be listening to music or playing a game while you wait to come back into reach of the network.
Posted 11 Nov 2007 at 1:04 am ¶