Still waiting
By adamg - Fri, 07/25/2008 - 10:13am.
Shane Curcuru begins to wonder if the Apple store at the Cambridgeside Galleria is more popular than Lenin's tomb.
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Shane Curcuru begins to wonder if the Apple store at the Cambridgeside Galleria is more popular than Lenin's tomb.
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No lines at Lenin's tomb ...
... when I was there last year. (See photo.) Of course, it was closed that day.
Awesome!
I'm in that picture waiting in the line. :)
I saw him taking the pic but had no idea it was Curcuru. I even joked about how we'd be on flickr and that wasn't the first thing every new iPhone user did was to get their phone, walk outside the store, and take a pic of the line they were just in to show that they were in it. Haha!
I'm just happy I finally got a new phone, my last one (Treo 650) died just a week before the 3G came out and then I couldn't get to any of the stores when they were in stock. This line was because the night before Apple stores all over MA got a good stock of phones in again and most of us were hoping to go once the crowds died down. Anyways, I got to the mall around 9 AM and was inside and right back out with my new 16 GB black iPhone 3G by 10 AM, so they moved us along pretty efficiently even though they're still needing to generate a line (he should have taken a pic of the "secondary line" of people in the food court because the line wasn't allowed by the mall to extend across the doorway of the store next door!).
Oooooh, more lines!
I didn't know about the secondary line - will have to check it out next week.
(waves at Kaz, now curious who you are! Do you work nearby, or were just there for the iPhone?)
Sorry, I'm still on an old fashioned iPhone. I still have to spin the little crank to make calls. Still debating about upgrading, and only doing that because the price point came waaaay down. Oooh, the one thing I should look for is how well the GPS works when you're driving. The old-skool cell tower GPS in existing phones works just fine, except when you're actually driving by yourself. If the new one updates live as you drive, that'd be a big sell.
Not telling
I am definitely in that picture and remember seeing you take it, but I'm not telling which one is me. :)
My company has its office in Kendall Square, but I have been primarily working at BioSquare at Boston Medical in the South End/Roxbury. I was only there because the online nightly inventory said they'd have both black and white 16 GB which gave me a better shot at snagging one. I live in Brighton anyways, so it's either Cambridgeside, Boylston St, or Chestnut Hill for me and Cambridgeside had the best stock that Thursday.
The new one updates live as you drive, but the Google Maps application that comes with the phone is a little delayed at displaying your current info (at highway speeds, anyways). I tested it today on the road and looked at when I would pass a crossroad then looked at the phone to see when my blip passed the road on the map. It was late by about 5 seconds or so as we drove, so if you were going to use it for turn-by-turn directions, you'd have to look a little bit up the map to see if your turn was coming soon.