Posted by Chris on under macbook, iphe, iphone, geniuses, genius, nuts, ace, operating system, zoo, lt, appointment | 
I went to the Apple Store yesterday because of a problem I had with my iPhone, which produced a supposedly annoying echo in my voice that drove my callers nuts.
The Apple Store in The Falls mall in Miami is always packed. Even at 2 in the afternoon, the place was a zoo, so I got on the standby list for the Genius Bar and had to wait two hours because I didn’t have an appointment.
Thankfully, I was entertained by my sister, who joined me along with her Macbook, which had a damaged battery.
The Genius, who was friendly as are all the Geniuses I’ve met, placed a call to the back of the store using my iPhone to test the echo. When no one answered his call, he told me, “Never mind. I’ll just give you a new one, since you’ve waited so long.”
Within minutes I had yet another shiny new iPhone, the sixth one I’ve ever owned.
My sister, on the other hand, was not so lucky. They failed to archive her operating system properly, so they kept it overnight and she will pick it up today.
Although my iPhones have had their problems, I have overall been pleased with the service I’ve received at the Apple Store.
What has your experience been with the Apple Store Geniuses?
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Posted by on under iphe, 3gs, chatterboxes, iphone, mth, outlay, department store, tesco, half price, ly, wifi, nuts, nbsp, ty, texts, marriage |
The
marriage of a high-priced smartphone to a
value-minded department store was always going to be interesting and Tesco has not disappointed. Having just announced that availability of the latest and greatest iPhone is coming on December 14, the company has also detailed some unique --
for the UK at least -- price plans to go with it. Most notable is the unlimited (subject to fair use policy) 3G web and
BT Openzone WiFi access on offer, which will be
free for a year to Pay As You Go and one-year contract customers or for two years if you're on a 24-month agreement. Tesco's also bringing the minimum monthly outlay down to £20 ($32) on its one-year contract, but that only gets you a £60 ($98) calls and texts allowance and you'd have to pony up £320 ($520) for the 16GB handset. On the other hand, you could go nuts and get the unlimited calls and texts plan for £60 a month, which isn't too bad value for the incessant chatterboxes out there. Finally, there's also half-price calling to your favorite five numbers, which isn't going to matter much to people on the all-you-can-eat price plan, but is a nice extra.
[Thanks Tony H. and everyone who sent this in]
iPhone 3GS coming to Tesco Mobile on December 14, extreme price plans in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under self stirring coffee cup, stirring coffee, kitchen fires, gizmodo, burnt toast, trial and error, toaster, nuts, household |
This is coming from the girl who went nuts over a self-stirring coffee cup, but a see-through toaster is abso-freakin'-lutely brilliant. No more burnt toast or kitchen fires since I can see when the...
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Posted by on under ipad, comic books, comic book, nuts |
I'd buy an iPad just to read comic books. Think I'm nuts? I probably am, but see how you feel after this first look at what Panelfly, maker of a popular comic book iPhone app, is building for the...
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Posted by on under ceo mark, mark zuckerberg, hotseat, ebay, analys, illuminati, d8, interviewer, goats, unthinkable, liking, insignia, cult, nuts |
Earlier this week during an
interview at the D8 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did the unthinkable: after finding the hotseat a little too toasty for his liking, he took off his hoodie. Interviewer Kara Swisher quickly discovered that the hoodie had a mysterious badge stitched on the inside and joked that Zuckerberg was in a cult. And then the Internet went sort of nuts. Tweets abound about Facebook's Illuminati-like status. The folks at SFWeekly managed to
recreate the diagram and did a thorough analysis on what it might mean. The Next Web thought it was
creepy. And back at Facebook HQ, three goats were sacrificed in an attempt to ward off yet another wave of bad press.
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