First iPhone owner hears his bed calling

by Criticom | July 12, 2008 at 11:34 am
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He may be the first person in the world to own the new sought-after Apple iPhone, but all Jonny Gladwell wanted to do yesterday morning was go to bed.

The 22-year-old AUT physiotherapy student had camped outside Vodafone's Queen St store in Auckland for 55 hours so he could buy the device.

The iPhone, which went on sale at midnight in Auckland and a few minutes later in Wellington and Christchurch, caused so much hype that police had to stand outside the store to help with crowd control.

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and to think, there are children starving in India (as my Mother always said).

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