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UncleUB

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New i-phone launch
« on: September 20, 2013, 03:18:41 PM »

What a sad society we live in today when something like this seems to be the be all,end all for thousands,if not millions of people.. :no:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2426167/The-great-iGrab-Frenzy-fans-world-start-getting-hands-hotly-anticipated-new-iPhone-live-hype.html

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  Elation turns to anger as stores run out of Apple's iPhone 5S model: Handsets being sold on eBay for THREE TIMES their retail value and on black market outside shops
New iPhones went on sale at 8am local time in countries around the world
Two devices have gone on sale - the luxe 5S and cheaper 5C
Stores in Liverpool and Cardiff sold out of the iPhone 5S by 8am
Fans angry at being turned away after others were allowed four phones
Handsets sold on eBay Friday morning for £2,000 - three times retail value
 
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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2013, 03:52:47 PM »

You would   all collapse laughing if you saw my/our mobile.   I hate the things and only have ours for  an emergency.  My stock reply to any text messages is OK   ... I can just about manage that  :D   .   It's funny really, I love gadgets, but the mobile 'phone has never held a great appeal.   
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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2013, 04:28:01 PM »

I appreciate that smartphones can be very useful for people on the move, but this sort of hysteria over a new model is quite ludicrous. ???
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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2013, 04:38:59 PM »

all very well for those that want / need  !!  but I,l stick to me Nokia brick     ;D
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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2013, 04:51:54 PM »

Would that be a SmartBrick? ;D
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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2013, 05:29:34 PM »

All this mass hysteria about iAnything drives me nuts, they are no better than all the others, in fact Samsung now outsells all of them. I think people using IPads as cameras look really silly, especially the large ones.

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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2013, 05:44:06 PM »

I have absolutely no time for iWotsit devices . . . To me they are just a status symbol for the iWant generation!  :-X
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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2013, 05:58:45 PM »

I don't mind what anyone has -  BUT when I get messages from Ipads or the like  they always end with  'sent from my Ipad'  that drives me potty   ....  so now I put  'sent from my PC in my snug'    ;D
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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2013, 06:03:08 PM »

The price is ridiculous!!!!!  The price of Accessories is even more ludicrous.....
and £160 for the difference between 16GB & 64GB is one great big rip off.  :mad:

Some people must have money to burn :/

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they always end with  'sent from my Ipad'  that drives me potty

Its there by default and the device adds it..  bet some people arent aware of it being added because they dont see it
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UncleUB

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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2013, 06:19:31 PM »

I wonder how many of these new i phones are financed via the likes of Wonga etc.

I agree with Mr B-Cat.

Its a generation of I want it and I want it NOW !!!
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UncleUB

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Re: New i-phone launch
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2013, 06:20:48 PM »

Would that be a SmartBrick? ;D

 :D

I bet quite a few brickies would like some of those..a brick that lays itself  ;D
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