iPhone launch Wellington - update

By lenz on July 11, 2008 12:48 PM | | Comments (0)

the poor guys of vodafone had their shop open till about 6:00 this morning and reopened at 9:00. i was in the shop at around 9 and found some pretty tired faces :-)
it looks like the credit check thing is the part that takes the most time. mine failed obviously the first time as i am no kiwi and they wanted to have my passport and visa faxed to the vodafone credit check team. even today in the morning there are queues at all three voda stores in welli and guys are running around shops asking for stock figures. the 16gig version is pretty much sold out now as it looks like.
well ... i finally managed to get my hand on one as well :-) lets see how it compares to the first generation iPhone.

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