iPhone adventure - mission accomplished!
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Over here fellow Canadian gadget geek!
Wanna know how to buy an iPhone in the U.S. of A.?
Ya I know - I’m sure you can find a border town as well as I can, probably better.
Let me tell you what to do once you’re south of the border. The answer is simple - go to an Apple store!
Each Apple store has, or had, plenty of iPhones. The AT&T stores sold out on Friday night and likely won’t have many to spare for months to come.
Apples stores, in contrast, were each shipped over 1,000 iPhones. That was the feedback given to me by Apple store representatives I talked to at the Somerset Collection mall in Troy, Michigan. (The map to the store is pictured above).
Luckily my partner Danielle and I happened upon the Apple store in the suburban Detroit mall - we had originally hoped to buy one from the Cingular/AT&T store on the third level. AT&T, for those who have lived in a cave for the past six months, is the exclusive carrier partner of Apple.
Much to my surprise, the Apple store had a number of iPhones available on Sunday - two days after the release. Apple, we were told by the customer service reps, stores are shipped more iPhones than AT&T though Steve Jobs didn’t advertise that fact leading up to iDay last week. Sure there are more AT&T stores and thus less phones available for each individual store, but Apple has priority over iPhone supply we were told.
Not five minutes after I walked into the store, I was able to buy a 4GB iPhone (for US$528 or so after Michigan state tax was applied - gulp).
As there is no unlock code for the iPhone despite feverish, round-the-clock efforts by software hackers/developers everywhere, I’m reserving judgment on the phone.
If I have to wait more than a month, I may sell the thing on eBay. For now, I’m happy with my overpriced Wi-Fi-enabled iPod!
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