Apple struggling to keep iPhone 3GS inventory stocked
By Will Park on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 9:43 AM PST In Apple, Hottest Hardware, iPhone
Say what you will about Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) products being over-hyped hunks of aluminum and silicon. At the end of the day, Apple is laughing all the way to the bank. It seems demand for the latest iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, is still out-pacing supply by a fair margin. The shortage has prompted Apple to bring back their iPhone availability tool, which allows iPhone hopefuls to check iPhone inventories at their local Apple Store before hopping in the car.
iPhone 3GS availability in California
Daily checks on Apple’s iPhone availability tool indicate that iPhone 3GS shipments are indeed coming fast and hard. But, Apple just doesn’t seem to be able to replenish some iPhone 3GS inventories fast enough to keep shelves stocked. The entry-level White 16GB iPhone 3GS is apparently selling out the fastest in many California Apple Stores. The White 32GB iPhone 3GS is also proving to be one hot ticket – there are more White 32GB iPhone 3GS’s with red dots than Black 32GB iPhone 3GS’s. The Apple Store in the Beverly Center, Los Angeles is even showing (at the time of this writing) an across-the-board depletion of iPhone 3GS inventory!
Ye old iPhone 3GS hopefuls, take heed. Check iPhone 3GS availability in your ‘hood before making the trip to your local Apple Store. Lest you get there to find out your iPhone 3GS has been sold-out for a couple days.
Apple iPhone 3GS availability tool
But can you have the iphone in a car ? Not a ice car?
Acording to massive reports it burn your balls off
APPLE is silent on reports their new iPhone 3G S is overheating, with forums worldwide buzzing with talk about issues with the handset.
back in the shape of the battery after using its GPS and 3G software.
More than 70 replies included similar claims plus one suggestion the new iPhone could be used as a cigar lighter.
PC World blogger Melissa J. Perenson said her new iPhone became “very, very hot” during use while plugged into a power point.
“Toasty doesn’t even describe how surprisingly hot it got,” Ms Perenson wrote. “It was too hot to even put the phone against my face.”
In a reply post, another person wrote: “I had my iPhone under my pillow playing music through the headphones for a nap, I awoke with a sharp pain on my left arm under the pillow. I had been burned from the iPhone getting so hot.”
Another comment suggested the claims were a hoax and the discolouration looked more likely to be the result of the phone being placed on a hot surface.
Users of the new iPhone are posting to two topics in the Apple Discussion forum: “Battery getting hot” and “Has Apple acknowledged the battery problem with new 3Gs?”
Reporting a friend’s problem, one forum participant said “the phone got extremely hot. He almost put it into the fridge.”
Apple Australia has not responded to heraldsun.com.au’s requests for comment.
Staff at Telstra and Optus stores in the Melbourne CBD said they were not aware of any customer complaints about the new iPhone overheating.
The back panels of demonstration units fixed to chargers and running all day at Telstra’s T(life)flagship store were fairly warm but not excessively hot.
Optus corporate Corporate Affairs Executive Siobhan Quinn said there had not been customer reports of this problem, but any device issues would be referred to the manufacturer (Apple).
Launching the new iPhone, Apple claimed the improved device now has “longer battery life”.
from http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25706894-663,00.html