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Lines are forming for the Apple iPhone 5 from Tokyo to New York already

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Lines are forming for the Apple iPhone 5 from Tokyo to New York already
The typical new iPhone launch wait lines are already forming, some for the preorders, and some are straight out camping in front of stores for the first batch arrivals, which are not until this Friday.

In Tokyo's posh Akihabara district, the lines for the iPhone 5 preorder have been significant, with more than 700 applications collected at one time, categorized according to the internal memory version.

Then we have good ol' USA, where fans have set up camp to wait in line for being the one of the first to get their hands on the new iPhone 5. While the Japanese efforts look genuine, the people in front of the 5th Avenue Apple Store seem to be doing it for the publicity mostly, say reporters that passed by. After all, it doesn't take more than a few mouse clicks to preorder one anyway, although wait times have been increasing.


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1. McJobs posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:24 18

brainwashing continues

22. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:16 9

Samsung brainwashes you and YOU don't even know it. Go play with your Plastic useless android device.

33. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 06:44 3

maier9900- im sorry i couldnt hear you over your immature bitchy comment

go back to licking windows please

38. serious9010 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 07:44 3

just when I thought you couldn't be more pathetic I find you commenting here -.-

immature, bitchy? You use same words in every comment?

Sad.

39. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 07:49 1

haha you call overs pathetic when your worse then most

no its just those words perfectly sum up people like you

look at yourself mate you need a reality check

42. serious9010 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 07:53 3

I don't call others pathetic. I call YOU pathetic. You know that you seem to reflect your own personality in your accusations of others?

Sad. Again.

49. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 08:23 1

sure mate what ever you want to believe, your so closed minded that you cant grasp anything

personality is something you failed to develop so you cant comment on it

47. AndroidLife posted on 17 Sep 2012, 08:15 3

lemme ask you something, did you see any of us waiting on line for a GS3 or a Note 2? I rest my case.

51. serious9010 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 09:01 4

@chaoticrazor: no comment

@AndroidLife:
Do you really think the people waiting in line are mindless sheep?

If people like to camp, let them camp. It's kinda adventurous

52. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 09:24 3

if you think waiting in a line is adventurous.........god help you lol

61. serious9010 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 16:01 1

@chaoticrazor: stop responding to my comments, creep

@everyone but the sad dude that spends all of his day on PA trolling and goes by chaoticrazor:

It's become sort of a tradition. People don't just wait in line, they have fun, talk to each other, and all share the same goal. Its bringing them together. People could just as easily buy their phone on the internet, but they choose to camp in line because of the thrill and socialising.

62. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 16:50

lmao dont like when someone calls you on your stupid comments well how about dont make stupid comments

you cant give reasons and facts so you call me a creep......your so sad its verging on funny

65. serious9010 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 17:18

you are not calling me on my comments, you are just wasting my time. gtfo

73. chaoticrazor posted on 18 Sep 2012, 07:08

your comments are just crap mate

you are one of the worst on here for spewing crap congrats

77. serious9010 posted on 19 Sep 2012, 08:57

chaoticrazor: you are the definition of crap

78. chaoticrazor posted on 19 Sep 2012, 09:03

ouch...........ohh wait that didnt hurt, its like your a little boy who's all upset lol

move on, come back with something better

64. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 17:18 2

You know why, Because there's nothing enticing about the plastic made GS3..

2. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:24 14

enticing? naaaaaa waiting on the real phones to come......xperia v for the win :)

3. natesvlogs posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:25 11

kinda pathetic

23. neutralguy posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:18 1

THIS! What's the main purpose of having the iPhone 5 on its first day of release? Seriously? WHAT? Nothiing more but for bragging.

24. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:18

Did you know i saw your mom in that line???

34. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 06:45 1

haha ohh wait no your not funny maier9900

i think your mom might have breastfed you too long

stop your useless comments

63. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 17:15

Was i addressing you? .... NOO. so S.T.FU.UP. BOY. Did you know you're Mom was SU@@@@k MY D@@K last night?... Dumb-Ass..

66. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 17:23

mate i dont care who you were adressing, stupid immature comments like that arent needed you sad twat.

ohh wow that hurt what are you 12 , you a little schoolboy or something.

im not gonna say anything bad about your mom for one simple reason.........she has to live everyday of her life knowing what a pathetic reject her kid is ......and that is something that makes me feel sorry for her

71. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 23:26

You scared little monkey i'm older than you are, i'm not the pathetic one, you are... and as far as my mom - she's proud her son is a lawyer. So you need to step back.

74. chaoticrazor posted on 18 Sep 2012, 07:09

lmao you a lawyer sure mate sure

why should i step back? so when some one calls you on your immature comments you dont like it. you sound like a spoilt little kid

75. maier9900 posted on 18 Sep 2012, 09:09

LMFAO...

58. Droiddoes (unregistered) posted on 17 Sep 2012, 12:31

I saw your mom in a bread line, because she foolishly spent all her money on an iphone. Granted they're only $100, but that's a lot of money to a meth addict.

4. whysoserious posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:26 10

Why damn fall in line when you can reserve online?

6. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:35 2

doing it for the experience i guess......kinda like going to a concert almost.......seems cool but i get sad when i think about what they are actually waiting for.......the iphone :(

if only the os was more in depth i would have nothing to say about apple and maybe battery life but owell people will either get educated soon or the iphone will turn even more to favor android....which ever one comes first is cool

15. whysoserious posted on 17 Sep 2012, 03:12 5

Well, that's a very lame experience to try, I guess. Even with Samsung or HTC or LG releasing a super phone 10 x phenomenal than the s3, i'm not gonna camp out and fall in line for days just to wait for it.

There's a fine line between passion and stupidity. Being a tech geek is okay, but man this is just dumb.

25. neutralguy posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:22 1

Most people here, kababayan formed a line to be the first people to experience the newest iPhone, which really is absurd because the only reason I can see is that they could brag it to their friends. Nothing more.

45. ChangMin2012 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 08:12

I don't think the Creative Hipsters / Guestlisters who love HTC or the Korean Pop Addicts at Samseung are going to camp out the respective stores for their respective flagships.

5. starandmountain posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:27 11

Stupid ifans

26. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:24 1

oooh, look who's acting all jealous and started insulting ifans... Your mom must be really proud. And i think is time to go in the shadows, you've been blinded by the sun boy... The sun left you with .00000001 gram of your brain... i feel sorry for you!!!

43. Captain_Doug posted on 17 Sep 2012, 08:06

you must have better things to do....

44. whysoserious posted on 17 Sep 2012, 08:10

You have the proudest parent in the world for falling in line for days just to wait for a device.

7. B3BLW29 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:39 8

iFans have way too much of free time..

27. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:27 1

I think you're gonna be working a 9 to 5 job for the rest of your life. That's why you can't afford an iPhone...

28. B3BLW29 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:32

On the contrary I can but I dont give a rats ass to evil fruit co.

59. Droiddoes (unregistered) posted on 17 Sep 2012, 12:33

Yes, because $200 is a substantial amount of money. Is that why you got an iphone, because you couldn't afford a $300 GS3? I'm sorry.

67. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 17:26

First off, i never paid 200 for my iphone... I paid $749 for the unlocked version of the 4s last year, and this year i'm going to get the iPhone 5 unlocked for pretty much the same price.....

69. Droiddoes (unregistered) posted on 17 Sep 2012, 19:12 1

Well that was stupid of you.

72. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 23:28

So people are stupid for buying Ferrari cars and aston martins, hell - even mercedes and bmw. ?

You definitely just hatched... useless bump.!

8. Kronic (banned) posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:40 3

Lucky people

9. Gaytor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:45 2

They do it for the look and feel and the design and the metal frame. I do understand their reason. Me i will be hooked to the Note for a long time. It's the best phone around.

10. devilfisch posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:54 2

I don't understand the satisfaction falling in line just to get a freaking phone regardless of what phone it might be except maybe if it has been slashed to half the price then that's a different matter! Well, generally, I don't really have much patience so falling in line for hours outside a store is just not in my alley.

I usually try not to purchase the first wave of a certain device model for the possibility of hardware problems that have not been detected during testing before release. I'd rather know what problems to expect if any, or have them fixed with a revision, rather than suffer the consequences. And don't force me to believe that Apple makes great quality products. Even Apple can make mistakes.

11. redmd posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:55 3

They have nothing else to do. I think they should read phonearena.

29. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 05:34 1

Do you remember when people were waiting for YOU to come out of your Mom?

Them people had nothing ELSE to DO.!!!!!

35. chaoticrazor posted on 17 Sep 2012, 06:47 1

yeah but maier9900 when you were born no one was waiting because no one cared.

seriously you that immature you sad little muppet

68. maier9900 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 17:30

There were actually a lot more ppl present when i was born than WHEN your whole family was born back in the Stone AGES.

40. good2great posted on 17 Sep 2012, 07:51 1

FINALLY someone brave enough to counter all this iPhone hate...hahaha

its immature but entertaining... i get tired of reading the same comments from android fans

12. andro. posted on 17 Sep 2012, 02:58 3

You have to wonder how many active brain cells these people actually have,no doubt half of them were in line like this for the iphone 4 and iphone 4$ also.

41. good2great posted on 17 Sep 2012, 07:53

you android fanboys REALLY think yall are smarter and more educated than everyone else...lol

46. whysoserious posted on 17 Sep 2012, 08:13

But "it doesn't take a genius," actually..

13. Bluesky02 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 03:05 3

Who said Japanese don't buy american product?

60. Jobes posted on 17 Sep 2012, 12:40

They are buying an American product with all asian parts ;)

14. wendygarett posted on 17 Sep 2012, 03:10 7

That's why I love Japanese :)

16. tiara6918 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 03:15 2

Look at the increasing number of sheep compared to the number of humans...

19. iphoneisthebest79 posted on 17 Sep 2012, 03:36 3

and you the smartest person in the earth

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