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iPhone 3G – 13,000 orders a second

We know that O2 and Carphone Warehouse have both sold out of their pre–order allocations of the iPhone 3G. But now it’s emerging just how many orders

We know that O2 and Carphone Warehouse have both sold out of their pre–order allocations of the iPhone 3G. But now it’s emerging just how many orders caused O2’s site to go into meltdown yesterday.Stuff reader Adrian Powici has just contacted us with his reply from O2 after complaining about yesterday’s service. In it, the mobile operator says, “Demand for iPhone 3G is staggering…we were experiencing 13,000 orders per second being placed.”That’s a massive number of people trying to get an iPhone. And if the estimates of 500,000 phones being shipped in for Friday’s launch is correct, we could have a sell out on our hands.O2 may have handled this badly, but it looks like both they and Apple will come up smelling of roses come 8:02am on Friday.No white iPhone 3G in UKMobileMe set for launch on 10 July

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home