When it comes to phones and computers, Apple was never an option for me, but with the new iPhone ioS4 iteration, things have certainly changed considering this would turn out to be my first apple product over the years of being a loyal Nokia user and WinMobile enthusiast.

After much speculations and rumours on the web, it was hard enough to stay asleep 1 day before iPhone 4 release. I wasn’t going to go for the midnight launch of July 30, 2010 at the Flagship Sydney store due to the fact that there probably be thousands of ppl and it was raining last night. I was however, lucky enough to have been rostered to work late on that day.

So I decided to get the much anticipated iPhone 4 from Chatswood Chase Apple store, after careful planning (parking, shopping mail website info etc) on the web – also it made sense considering it is just a 15mins drive from where I live in the northshore.

Set the alarm clock to ring at 4am on 30th July 2010, got up at 4:30 from the anxiousness, got on to the Chatswood chase camping forum on whirlpool and there were 15 ppl lined up already at 4:30am. Brushed my teeth and rushed out fully prepared to go to work and drove towards the Chatswood Chase Shopping mall and got there in under 15 minutes – all hail the WinMobile iGO8 gps haha.. It was 5:15am, the car park at the mall was already open in view of the special day and as I got in , there were were two seperate queues, one for outright purchases and the other for plan (telco contracts). Luckily I joined the outright queue to be the 17th. In just around 30-45mins, “outright” line is almost all the way to the door of the mall and there were not many people in line for the “plan” .

Without further ado , I present you with these pictures (after a good 30 mins of standing) and if you seen this, you know the phone is not overrated.

Pic source: , BTW apple staff handout coffees and breakfast to everyone and thank us while we wait, we love you to Apple.

Oh the pain of waiting 1 hour more after the store open (store opened at 8am! but had to wait till 9am to wait my turn) before we can get in. Had good fun and made friends with fellow whirlpoolians in the queue, even got hold of a micro sim cutter from one of them! it was awesome.