Wannabe Activ[ation]ist
Written on June 19, 2009 by Katherine W. Prawl
It has been roughly six hours since I first powered up my iPhone 3G S, but I am still waiting for the magical activation to happen. A little while ago it occured to me to look up my blog posts from June, 2007, to remind myself of how long it took to get the original iPhone activated. The earliest entry about iPhones in this blog doesn’t help, since it dates from the software 2.0 upgrade rather than startup, but my personal blog has the story. It seems that of the two phones we bought then, on 29 June 2007, one was activated quickly, but the other took three days because of a bookkeeping mix up at AT&T.
I haven’t been keeping up with what other users are seeing (on Twitter, of course) because I was doing school work like a good girl, but now I think it’s time to check it out. I have even followed @ATTNews, all to no avail. One article I read (but have since misplaced) said they got a message in iTunes saying activation could take as long as 48 hours, but I got no such message, probably because my account is already active. I’m sorely tempted to try switching the SIM cards, but might hold off a little longer.
In the meanwhile, I have been having fun playing with all the apps that don’t require the phone service. Since I have WiFi here, that’s just about everything except the actual phone. This puppy is fast! How fast, you ask? Have a look:
June 25th, 2009 at 5:39 am
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