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21/09/2012 12:24 | By Adam Hartley, contributor, MSN Tech & Gadgets
Apple iPhone 5: the view from the queue
Bonkers! In! Hanover! Square!
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MSN UK's roving reporter Adam Hartley takes the pulse of those queuing for Apple's flagship smartphone.
Should you have happened to be walking along Regent Street or across Hanover Square in London’s West End at 6am this morning, you would have seen something truly remarkable and bonkers. The (usually sleepy) early Friday morning scene was disrupted by thousands of eager Apple fans, many of who had been queuing for days, patiently waiting to get their sweaty mitts on the new iPhone 5.
We captured a number of these eager Apple customers to find out what the big deal was about the new iPhone 5. Is Apple Maps a flop? Will a bigger screen really make their lives measurably better? Do they even care about the speedier new A6 processor? And, most importantly, what the hell had encouraged them to spend days and nights camped out in the autumnal chill of crime-ridden West One?
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21/09/2012 13:18
sad twatts :)
21/09/2012 13:37
Apple could sell a plank of wood with some typewriter buttons on to these morons
21/09/2012 13:28
Sad people and a reflection on what we hold as valuable in our society today.
21/09/2012 13:33
the whole lot of them in the photo's look like they're on the dole, and where do they get the money from?
21/09/2012 13:56
what a bunch of retards
21/09/2012 13:53
Sad people living sad lives. Or should that be sheep? Or Tossrs
21/09/2012 13:53
Apple will shortly be bringinging out another new!!! phone!!! Just as soon as they think these idiots have saved enough money for it. Very sad people
21/09/2012 17:32
I can understand the Kuwaitis being there to save £175, However has anyone noticed that the base price in the UK is £529 and the base price in the USA is $525. Even allowing for higher sales tax in the UK, Apple are ripping off UK buyers. Fancy standing in a queue for hours on end to get ripped off by a super rich American corporation.
21/09/2012 14:07
I would rather boil my testicles in oil than queue to buy a phone of any description. How sad can people get?
21/09/2012 14:00
What sad lives
21/09/2012 14:16
sad, sad. sad,,,,,,,,
21/09/2012 13:57
Please someone tell them it's only a phone and then get them some counselling while there is still time.
21/09/2012 18:29
Looks like a refugee camp to me, not london.
21/09/2012 18:11
Who has money to spend like that on a phone!
I cant belive people from asia are coming just to see the apple iphone5 launch!
Sad people these day...
21/09/2012 15:01
Well at least we can see it's a hit with the asian community.
21/09/2012 13:45
sad bas****ds
21/09/2012 13:39
What a bunch of saddo's Don't these people have jobs? No they can't have if they did they wouldn't be able to afford the cost of these new phones
21/09/2012 17:32
Grown men willing to queue for days in order to get their hands on a newly released iphone.....you guys are the ultimate p*ssy deterrent.
21/09/2012 14:12
Just look at geeks in photo number 3, enough said.
21/09/2012 16:40
bet they still live with their parents
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