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This is What an iPhone Extortionist Looks Like

Second in line in SF’s Apple Store, Mark wants $1500, no less, for his spot in line. This is not an Apple Fan. choice quote: “Game recognize Game, Blood!”

SF Apple Stores shutting down in a few minutes to setup for Easter Phone. Catch it live. [iPhone SF Campout Live Video] SF iPhone Line is a Friggin Circus (P.S. We’re live)

(Another) iPhone Cake

Depending on how you feel about Apple, this iPhone cake may be better than the real thing. Sure, that icing looks like tar coated with airbrushed crude oil, but it’s actually 100% butter cream—better known as the best parts of butter and cream combined into an (ultimate?) frosting suitable for the (ultimate?) phone. Also like…

Gang of Steve Jobses Descends on Manhattan

How many Steve Jobses are there? According to this iPhone-waiting gang amusing all in line at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York City, Steve Jobs appears in many forms. As promised, here’s video of the parade of strangeness. They’re all members of Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB), an NYC improv group that puts…

iPhone Lines Across the USA, a Gallery By You

The moment of truth approaches on the East Coast and shadows lengthen all across America as the lines forming to get an iPhone lengthen at the same time. We’ve seen lazy-ass rentacops on Segways telling people they can’t sit, a Santa Monica newsbabe caked with makeup, and even the Philly mayor getting in on the…

The First Person in the AT&T iPhone Line Doesn’t Know What the Hell She’s Waiting For

Click to viewWe’re at the AT&T store in SF and quizzing line campers on the iPhone. People who got the questions right get a free limited edition Gizmodo iPhone shirt. Those who don’t, get the whole internet laughing at him/her. It’s like camping out for a Star Wars movie and not knowing what a Lightsaber…

Breaking: Parade of SciFi Steve Jobs Descends on Cube Apple Store

A group of Steve Jobs’ just walked down the line and tried to get into the store to “check on their iPhones.” Apparently the Steves didn’t let security know about their visit ahead of time, as they were cruelly denied access at the door. Don’t they know who runs this company?! Stay tuned for video,…

iPhone: You Getting One?

A lot of you are obviously interested in the iPhone, but are you interested, or interested. Are you just satisfying your voyeuristic urges now, peeping at the weirdos in line, while you silently hold out for revision 2 or 3? Let us know. Your opinion matters to us. This call may be recorded for quality…

Updated: Fox News iPhone Grabber Gets Busted by the 5-0 (Now with Video)

Click to viewAllegedly, this is the dude who tried to snag the mic/iPhone out of a reporter’s hand live on Fox News. Looks like the cops got their man up here at the Midtown Apple store. When will you people learn: stupid publicity stunts don’t pay. Also, don’t return to the scene of the crime,…

iPhone SF Campout Live (12:30PM PDT)

There are 150 people on line; most of the true iPhone fans are in the back. And the sun is terrible for LCD screens. I’m frying out here. [iPhone SF Campout Live Video by Justin.TV and Giz] https://gizmodo.com/sf-iphone-line-is-a-friggin-circus-p-s-were-live-273439

iPhone SF Campout Live (11:30AM PDT)

Hey. I’m back from my nap, and on the line again. And it feels like Summer. People are putting on sunscreen, which is not a typically necessary San Franciscan action. Things are going so well. Except those guys have started up the boomboxes again. I’m wearing one of our Limited Edition iPhone Launch T-Shirts, that…

Bargain Hunting: What You Could Buy Instead of the iPhone

We went down the iPhone line in NY and asked the campers whether they were aware they could get many other great things for the same price as an iPhone. Hilarity ensued. Video by Alex and Nick McGlynn

Catching Up With iPhone Campers at the 5th Avenue Apple Store

The Apple Store has closed its doors, marking the home stretch for the 5th Avenue iPhone hopefuls. The line’s swelled to nearly 240 people and has been penned in and condensed to keep the prospective customers from blocking the other storefronts that share a space with the Cube. Even still, it has curled around yet…

Ringtone Icons in iTunes 7.3

The just-released iTunes 7.3 has a little secret: a folder containing icons for ringtones. Found in the resource folder, these images aren’t part of the iTunes interface just yet, but obviously Apple is leaving themselves room to grow. Conspiracy theories, anyone? Ringtone Images Hidden… [engadget]

iPhone Launch Day Morning Roundup

There’s so much iPhone news today, you’ve probably missed a bunch of it as you’re convincing your boss to let you get out a little bit before 6 p.m. to line up. Here’s the good stuff: • iPhone Camper Greg “Line” Packer Photoshopped by you, the demented. • iPhone lines across the US, by you,…

Sweaty iPhone Linesitter Photoshop Contest: Pure Horror

Click to viewMy God. This was by far the biggest response to a Photoshop contest yet, with entries filling my inbox every minute or so for the past 24 hours. Stop! For the love of everything holy, please stop! I can’t take looking at this guy any more! I feel completely dead inside. Consider this…

iPhone Launch in Midtown: Media Frenzy!

Besides nerds, you know who else is swarming the Apple store in midtown? Reporters. Lots and lots of reporters. Check them all out getting the scoop, as well as everyone’s favorite overweight opportunist wheeling and dealing, courtesy of videographer Nick McGlynn.

Ebay Pulling iPhone Listings Like Mad

iPhone listings should be all over eBay at the moment—and they are…for five minutes at a time. With some listed at extravagant prices (we’ve seen numbers as high as $1,200 and $1,300), eBay has been pulling listings left and right. Of course these actions are the natural course of eBay protecting customers who may plop…

The Various Plans of iPhone Linesitters

All sorts of people are waiting in line at the Cube store, and all of ’em have different reasons for doing so. What are they going to do when they finally get that coveted box home? Videographer Nick McGlynn investigates.

Newsweek’s Steven Levy (nearly) Mugged for iPhone, Live on TV

“iPhone Frenzy” [Eds. note: When we saw this live on TV it looked a lot worse. Now that there is video to review, it’s obvious the guy was going for the microphone (listen carefully to the audio).] Newsweek’s Steven Levy, one of the fantastic four of tech journalism, was nearly deprived of his exclusive review…