Here it is! The long-awaited drawings for the 2 iPhone 3G’s we promised to our members. Watch the video below to view the drawings I did this morning.
THANK YOU to all that entered the contest, and congratulations again to all of our winners!!! I’ll be contacting all winners in the near future to iron out the details 
Fresh off the press is this crazy video. Looks like everyone is going iPhone crazy down in NYC. Check out the video below, where first in line David Yoo emerges from the store, iPhone 3G in hand. I especially like the part where he thanks his mother for everything. Good grief Charlie Brown.
[ via iPhoneBuzz and SlashGear.tv]
The ‘Join the Forums, Win an iPhone 3G Contest’ is now officially closed! Now comes the fun part for me of preparing the drawings for the 5 copies of iPhone RingtoneMaker… and more importantly… the 2 new iPhones!
A HUGE thank you to everyone that joined the site and supported the contest. I sincerely hope you stick around with me here at Mactropolis for years to come, as I have some great things planned.
Stay tuned on July 11th for the official winner announcements… it’ll be good!
I’ve been a little slack over the past day or so on the post front. Partly because I’ve been away from the office, and partly because I’m prepping for the big drawing for 2 brand-new iPhones.
If you haven’t entered the contest yet, click here to enter before it’s too late. Cut-off for entries is 12:01AM CST on July 11. (Just after midnight tonight!)
I’m thinking it’s going to be a long night… setting up for the official drawing with everyone’s name entered into the drawing according to the number of times they’ve posted up to the cut-off date… I’m doing the drawing ‘old-school’… Will draw winning names out of some sort of container (haven’t figured that out yet) and will cut up all paper ballots… And YES, it will be on video Whew, this is going to be some work But worth it!
A final good luck and THANK YOU to everyone that has entered… And again, if you haven’t entered yet, click here for more details.
Only 2 days left in our amazing contest! The ‘Join the Forums, Win an iPhone 3G’ Contest!
2 brand new iPhones are still up-for-grabs, as well as other great prizes. A random drawing will be held on July 11th to determine the winners.
To enter (It’s Free), and for full contest details… CLICK HERE >
AppleInsider has reported that Apple has snubbed Rogers Wireless for dumping ridiculous service plans on potential Canadian iPhone 3G customers. Apple has decided to pull iPhones from its Canadian retail stores to help the carrier market the new device to customers.
Canadian Apple Retail stores will therefore NOT be selling the new iPhone this Friday Apple has commented. It will be entirely up to Rogers and Fido to pick up subscribers and sell the 3G all on their lonesome.
Calls to Canadian Apple Retails stores confirmed these details, although it was confirmed that demo units will be available at retail outlets come Friday.
The fallout continues against Rogers and their proposed pricing structure. Something has got to give…C’mon Rogers… adjust your pricing to fall in-line with our American friends and we’ll hug this one out.
Read more over at AppleInsider >
One of the more anticipated questions to be answered in recent weeks was “When are the Apple stores opening for the launch of the new 3G phone?” Well, wait no more.
Apple.com has released a photo on the site that says the new iPhone will be available at 8am local time July 11th. Apple has followed the same pattern as their US wireless service AT&T to help with the long lines and lengthy in-store activation process.
AppleInsider.com has a compiled list of all the memos and price lists that have been sent out over the course of the announcement of the 3G phone until now, so check it out if you would like.
Can we trust this? As I recall Apple is notorious for putting up ads that advertise one thing, and then when news breaks about it, that picture is gone for good.
Two examples for you: When the iPod Touch was released buyers speculated that there would be Bluetooth capability. They even posted a picture on the UK Apple site that showed the Bluetooth icon, but was there Bluetooth? No, there wasn’t.
More recently Apple released a picture on the Australian Apple site saying the the App Store and 2.0 firmware update would be released June 27th instead of the much anticipated July 11th. I, for one, believe this announcement, even though you can’t find the picture on Apple’s site, I still believe it. I assume that having had a credit check done, it will take at least 30 minutes per customer to actually get the iPhone set up and ready to go. So I think Apple is making a smart move to be open this early, to help with the super long lines that will form.
I wish all those in line, Happy Waiting.
You can’t make stuff like this up. Seems that a small-ish group of people have started camping outside of the NYC Cube store in an effort to break the Guinness World Record for ‘waiting in line to buy something’… Sounds a little obscure to me, and I don’t even know if that’s an established record… but there you have it. At any rate, it looks like a group of about 10 or so people started waiting back on July 4th in anticipation of the new iPhone 3G. Once Friday rolls around, they will have been waiting for one week. Insane.
If there are any readers from NYC out there, I would LOVE it if you could get me some pictures, video or even an interview with these folks. I’d be happy to have a little phone interview with ‘em Those crazy kids…
More pictures and an interview with the group’s ‘leader’, over at Engadget >
Well I’m taking things easy here over the weekend at Mactropolis… weather is nice, and I need to get out from in front of this computer. With that said, I want to put out a very important REMINDER about our contest.
If you haven’t entered our ‘Join the Forums, Win an iPhone 3G Contest‘ yet, time IS running out. July 11th is fast approaching… and the cut-off date for entries is 12:01AM CST on July 11!
The Super-Dooper Grand Prize: one 16GB iPhone 3G!
Grand Prize: one 8GB iPhone 3G!
Runner-Up Prizes: 5 copies of the brand new Mac version of iPhone RingToneMaker.
Entering the contest is FREE… and easy.
The official drawings for all remaining prizes will be shot on video, right on July 11th. I’ll be posting the videos here for all to enjoy.
After much waiting and anticipation, Canadians can now sink their teeth into some hard data from Rogers on their iPhone 3G pricing plans. All of the new plans are going to require a 3-year contract, and they will include visual voicemail, free evenings and weekends, and unlimited WiFi at all Rogers and Fido hotspots.
Plans are starting at $60/month for 150 minutes of voice and 400MB of data… and top out at $115/month for 800 minutes of voice and up to 2GB of data.
*sigh*, still no unlimited plan for Canadians.
| Monthly Fee | $60 | $75 | $100 | $115 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekday Minutes Included | 150 | 300 | 600 | 800 |
| Evenings and Weekend | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Evenings are from 9 p.m to 7 a.m Monday to Friday and Weekends are from 9 p.m Friday to 7a.m Monday | ||||
| Data Included | 400MB | 750MB | 1GB | 2GB |
| 1MB= 1,024 KB 1GB=1,024MB | ||||
| Bonus Sent Text Messages | 75 | 100 | 200 | 300 |
| Visual Voicemail - New with iPhone | Included | |||
| Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages, so you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you. | ||||
| Access to Rogers Wireless
and Fido Hotspots |
Unlimited | |||
| Additional Weekday Minutes
(per minute) |
35¢ | 35¢ | 25¢ | 15¢ |
| Additional Data | 50¢ per MB for the first 60 MB, 3¢ per MB thereafter | |||
| Additional Sent Text Messages
(per message) |
15¢ | |||
Rogers will also be offering 2 voice ‘value packs’ with popular features. The $15 value pack includes caller ID, Who Called, Caller Ring Trax, 2,500 Sent Text Messages and 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes. The $20 value pack will include Caller ID, Who Called, Caller Ring Trax, 10,000 Sent Text Messages, 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes and 6PM early evening calling.
I’m really starting to get sick of the ridiculous data charges up here in Canada. Was really hoping the iPhone would usher in a new, reasonable, ‘unlimited’ data era up here. Guess I’m wrong so far. It’s time for Canadians to bend over and take what Rogers is giving them.
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