People Camping Out for iPhone 5 Eight Days Ahead of Launch
First in line are taking advantage of free publicity.
Apple has some of the devoted fans around. It's not unusual to see people camping out the night before a big launch in an effort to be among the first to get their hands on Cupertino's latest product. However, it seems the people queuing up for the iPhone 5 in New York City have an agenda.
Fortune reports that the first in line have been there since Thursday morning. That's eight days ahead of the iPhone 5's launch. Aware that those that line up first often receive a considerable amount of attention from the tech blogosphere, there are many there for reasons other than obtaining the newest iPhone. According to Fortune, one and two inline, Hazem Sayed and Sage are there to promote a social media startup called Vibe. The people occupying spots three through seven are being sponsored by a company that buys old iPhones. Gazelle has provided them with food, sleeping bags, tshirts, a tent, hats, and camp chairs for their troubles. They'll also get a free iPhone 5 when all of this is over.
As of Sunday night, there were only seven people in line and no one was there just because they really wanted to be the first to get the iPhone 5. We expect that will change and the true Apple fans will surface in the next few days. The iPhone 5 was announced last week and packs a 1GHz dual-core Apple A6 SoC, 1GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, a 4.0-inch Retina display, an 8-megapixel camera in the back with a 1.2-megapixel lens up front, WiFi, and support for 4G LTE. It's due out on Friday.

"Hey buddy the iPhone 5 is coming out lemme take eight days off."
"You're fired."
"Yay!"
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Frankly my xperia play is just fine they cancelled the second version but who cares. you would never see me paying around 10 dollars an hour to play games online anyway
There is really nothing special about the iphone 5 over the 4S. Apple has been surpassed in many ways (finally) by other phone manufacturers. IOS has not seen any dramatic overhaul since it's inception.
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"Hey buddy the iPhone 5 is coming out lemme take eight days off."
"You're fired."
"Yay!"
That demonstrates how stupid are some of the die hard fans of apple in this case.
Anyone knows what's the half life of steve job's reality distorion field?
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PT Barnum is the new CEO of Apple, who else could sell a phone that looks identical to the last one apart from being a bit stretched, cost more, renders all your dock devices redundant
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And still has a worse screen that Nokia, Samsung and Sony, camera as well, no NFC or removable battery
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Roll up, roll up!!! A sucker born every minute!!!
There's nothing on the market that could make me wait in front of a shop, NOTHING.
Especially an iPhone, which is always 95% the same as the previous.
I wouldn't even wait a minute in front of a shop for a Galaxy 4.... (S3 owner here...).
Yeah, but you used logic; these specimens don't.