Owner of the 3rd iPhone 3 GS

OK *yawn*… set the alarm to 5:00 am this morning (wtf?!) to be in the center of Almere City at 6. T-Mobile Netherlands organized a big iPhone launch spectacle there and have 200 iPhones on stock. Fem (me wifey) and myself headed over there a bit early as the ‘hotel’ would open at 7am. I wouldn’t be too happy to arrive there and discover that you’re number 201, so better be early. Well… we were about the 20th and 21st person in line (remember… at 6 am). Sun was rising (morning is quite nice actually) and at 7 o’ clock about 30 people were there. Oh well, better this way then to hope for the best and miss your spot.

Inside you would register for your iPhone, in both our cases the 32 GB black edition. Hope we won’t mix up phones some day So much staff around, it pretty much outnumbered the crowd in the beginning. They did a good job though in the cool&clean T-Mobile stilo. Inside amazingly I got a ticket for the third iPhone! Fem got ticket 21 (huh?). While lounging there you could give the new iPhone demo models a try, Mac apparati available for checking your mail and a concert pianist and some kind of DJ was there for amusement. And then…. 9 am! Being third in line and cruising through the press (photographers, TV stations, radio (BNN)) I got in the shop. Complete mayhem in there, pretty much like the “DDD dagen” at the Bijenkorf 20 minutes later I was the proud owner of my new iPhone. My new matey is lying next to me, charging and loading my iTunes music. How sweet is that!

See flickr for pictures.