X marks the spot as iPhone X brings back the lines to Apple Retail stores

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's anticipated iPhone X smartphone began shipping today and was available in Apple Retail Stores. Compared to the relatively small lines for the iPhone 8 last month, there were hundreds of people lining the Eaton Centre shopping mall in downtown Toronto. 

Some customers reserved the iPhone X online and were there to pick up their new phones while around 500 were waiting in line to pick up one of Apple's new devices. Each buyer was limited to two phones and Apple representatives said they made sure that everyone would be able to get the device they wanted. iPhone X is an all new design, features an all glass enclosure with a large 5.8 OLED display, a Face ID camera replacing the home button and the most advanced cameras ever shipped on an iPhone.

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Carrier hiccups giving buyers grief on iPhone 5 launch day

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We've been through iPhone launches before so one would think that Canadian carriers would have figured out how to compensate for the demand of new signups.

Walking through the downtown core today we saw that a Telus store had closed its doors to customers because of a nationwide outage that hit at 7:30 in the morning and that hasn't yet been resolved. The Telus outage seems to have affected their website with users being unable to access their accounts. The issue was resolved late in the afternoon.

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Early lines form for iPad 2 in Toronto

Updated on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:40AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Updated on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 10:05AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Photo by Justin Hui via Twitter Despite cold -12 degree temperatures following an anomalous Spring snowstorm Wednesday, people at the Eaton Centre Apple Store formed lines as early as 7:30 PM Thursday night (above). The line was moved outside the building until 6:00 when they were let back in. There were reportedly around 100 people in line by 7 AM. The iPad 2 goes on sale at 5 PM later today. The line at 3:30 wrapped around the entire top floor and back to where the Disney Store is.

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