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UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who joined Will, Tom and I in the Ustream chat

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By: , IntoMobile
Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 4:49 AM

[Update] Thanks to everyone who showed up, we had over 170 people watching Will buy his white 32 GB iPhone. The chat room was a load of laughs, and next time there is a live launch we’ll keep you updated. Simon and Will may be recording the next podcast right now, but it’s anyone’s guess what Will is going to do after staying awake for 12 hours in queue!

Will and Tom are at the Apple Store in Santa Monica and they have a laptop setup on Ustream showing what it’s like to queue. I’m in the chat room remotely via Finland, Will and Tom are just goofing around trying to pass the time. Come and watch.

I’m also enjoying Juhannus, Finnish for mid summer. In Finland they celebrate the summer solstice. I’m having a blast with my White Russian. What are you drinking internet?

The dude abides.

[Update]

As of 6:50AM, this is what the Santa Monica Third Street Promenade Apple Store looks like:

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Daniel Perez

    Drinking me a medium BK Joe. I’m that damn classy.

  • James Falconer

    White Russian? I see you rolled your way into the Semis… :)

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    What else am I going to drink at 2 in the afternoon? :D

  • James Falconer

    haha… it’s all good… Do you roll on Shabbos?

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Never was Jewish, too scared to get the cut.

  • TomoBrooke

    Was fun watching the stream over in Santa Monica from here in the UK. Cant wait to get my iPhone 3GS! :)

  • Milan

    excellent Big Lebowski reference

    I’m still amazed at apple’s marketing pull and the fact people waited in line for a spec bump in a phone.

  • Egypt

    Congrats on your new iphone. now i’m off to work this 12 hour shift of activating for at&t. we heavy staffed cuz of the launch. i’m hoping that everything is seamless and we don’t run into any problems. i really didn’t get enough sleep. lol.

  • Ben Robinson

    The live launch was simply AWESOME. Loved it, and joined just about the right time!

    Will is the daddy of t-shirt nipple video recording, we had a whole, pure, 5 mins of that during the entry to the store.

    And I saw TWO moonwalks during the webcast – moonwalks should be mandatory in live webcasts.

    Yay.