First iPhone frontburner post

Oh, Adam…lookee what I have! (And, yes, I posted this from my phone. Giddy. Up.)

Update: just got off the phone with AT&T because my old number still hasn’t ported over to my iPhone. The service rep said there’s a huge backup because of everyone switching over because they bought iPhones. IJS.

RE: IPHONE IFANATICS

A cell-phone-industry-working FBvian sends an insidery dispatch (jump, please) about the particulars of Apple’s new cash cow. I don’t have any idea what most of it means, but it’s not going to matter much to these people, this guy, or that girl.

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BYE, ROD! MISS YOU ALREADY

NBA HANGOVER

Trying hard to get over my draft-watching party so we can finish up the print version of FrontBurner. But one last NBA note: Former Lincoln High star and current Toronto Raptor Chris Bosh is right this minute enjoying him some Maguire’s in Far North Dallas. (I feel so TMZ.com right now.)

RE: FRIDAY FUN

[shaking fist] ROJ!!!

[shaking head] Yuckmeister? How?

RE: IPHONE IFANATICS

iGot a news release.

UNCLE BARKY TAKES BELO’S BYRON HARRIS TO TASK

Much ado about nothing, or old-fashioned yellow journalistic pugilism?

(Question: How can you say you don’t read someone’s column, and in the next sentence ask “(D)id you ever apologize or retract your mistake on your comments regarding my first story?”)

RE: IPHONE IFANATICS

Apparently, someone in the marketing department at Apple didn’t think the media was aware of today’s iPhone release. Any other D Maggers get this e-mail? Jump for the image.

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RE: IPHONE IFANATICS

With all due respect to Alex, I think he got the wrong first-in-line guy at the Knox Apple store. I swung by after lunch and shot the picture at left. (I apologize for its quality. I promise much better once I get my hands on an iPhone.) You can’t make it out in the photo, but the family in front is wearing lime green shirts, no doubt provided (and smartly, too) by neighboring retailer Current Energy. The free (?) advertising paid off, as a news team gathered footage about an hour and a half ago.

BIG FOOT IN NORTH TEXAS WOODS?

If you’re going camping this weekend in North Texas, that wet dog smell in the woods may be a wet Big Foot.

MICO RODRIGUEZ WILL GET HIS iPHONE

Only in Dallas would a restaurateur carry the clout to pull this off. From a FrontBurnervian in the field:

I just stopped by the Apple Store on Knox to see how much Apple Kool-Aid was being consumed and ran into Mico Rodriguez as he was pitching an Apple Store employee on a “trade” of Mi Cocina food for the employees in exchange for an iPhone. Of course the employee wouldn’t do the deal, so Mico walked out to the line (about 40 people at 10:45 a.m.) and asked a group of guys, “Any of y’all Mi Cocina customers?” To which one young guy answered, “Are you Mico?” And, thus, Mico will get his iPhone, as this young guy (from Mico’s “old neighborhood,” evidently) will wait in line for him.

RE: HOW WET ARE WE?

This is a good time to take advantage of the elevation at Reunion Tower to get a jaw-dropping view of the extent of the Trinity flooding. The observation floor doesn’t require dining.