iPHONE 3G : Two Days Before the iPhone 3G's Official Launch in Harajuku (Tokyo), Japanese Are Queuing Up!

Posted on Wed Jul 09, 11:55 by chino, Student, Guangzhou
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Did you ask or see if there is Chinese persons in the line? too bad, when the ps3 launch, the first one in line was a chinese guy and everybody hate chinese buyers in Japan.

Posted on Wed Jul 09, 03:41 by Asher, London
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yea, great excitement, the Japanese are queing-up, all seven of them!

Posted on Wed Jul 09, 10:29 by fz22gq, Software Engineer, Tokyo
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Not long now .... i went out there yesterday and grabbed a bit of video footage.

http://neilduckett.com/first-iphone-in-japan/

Posted on Wed Jul 09, 10:40 by Daimaou, Survivor, Tokyo - Japan
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You even shooted Kei while he was interviewing people... If you do not mind I will put your video on this news as well

Posted on Wed Jul 09, 11:45 by Skeg8, Consultant, Tokyo
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So is there any update on the line status today? I am thinking about heading over there tomorrow morning, but I am happy to not be first in line as long as I can still pick up a phone.

I will swing by bicamera in yurakucho later today but I doubt there is a line there yet, it usually wont get crazy start until early morning.

Posted on Thu Jul 10, 08:19 by jigs, teacher, nagoya
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um...harajuku is tokyo's electronic geek district?
i thought that distinction still belongs to akihabara.

Posted on Thu Jul 10, 08:53 by Ken, Consultant, Tokyo
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Jigs, the Harajuku store is putting them on sale at 7am, with all other locations going at noon. This forced the "line-up" location to be Harajuku. I doubt Softbank would feel comfortable putting it in Akiba right now. Seems like a shrewd marketing move, and one that puts the iPhone squarely in the fashion, hipster scene from day 1.