O2 runs out of iPhone 3GS
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, hardware, BT, Mobile Phones, Apple on
Apple sold a million iPhone 3GS units in the first three days worldwide, and now it would have appear to have run out of them altogether in the UK. According to the stock update checker at the exclusive provider of the iPhone in the UK, O2, the iPhone 3GS is currently out of stock.
O2 says “Due to the phenomenal demand for the new iPhone 3GS, we’ve temporarily run out of stock online, over the phone and in our retail stores. We expect additional stock of the new iPhone 3GS to be available online, over the phone and in our retail stores at the end of this week.”
This despite a huge hoo-hah over the cost of the new iPhone, and in particular the spectacular double-barrel rip off that is the high price of tethering and the high price of data transfer outside of the UK. It also seems to suggest that the general public are either unaware, or simply do not believe, the ongoing reports of overheating problems facing the 3GS which have left some white units discoloured and some users complaining of the iPhone being too hot to hold when using GPS applications.
Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO who is now back at work following his liver transplant, says “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning… iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” Which is fine, but that momentum hits something of a brick wall when stocks run out while demand is still so high. Perhaps your first job back at your desk, or from bed if you are working at home today, should be getting those distribution lines sorted. Your second job might be investigating the overheating claims and giving us some kind of official comment. Just a thought.
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Comment by - November 4, 2009 on 7:40 am
No worry, if The Telegraph’s other story is to be believed….UK wireless carrier O2 is bracing itself for what may be up to 30,000 returned iPhones as recent customers send back their iPhones to wait for better deals from rivals Orange and Vodafone. The 30,000 customers that bought the iPhone from O2 within the last two weeks are therefore entitled to end their contracts.
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