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iPhone 5 lineups have started in Canada

By on September 20, 2012 at 12:02pm in Mobile News


Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5 is just around the corner, officially available at 8:00am EST across our fine land tomorrow. Passing by the Apple Store in the Toronto Eaton Centre this morning around 11:00am shows the lineup has started, currently only 1 person, but a lineup nonetheless.

We’re not sure about the 25 other Canadian Apple Stores, but do let us know. You can send up a pic via our Twitter account here.

Update #1: Posted another picture, now around 3pm, of the Toronto flagship store. 3 people are now in line.

Update: #2: Looks like more lineups have started across Canada. Below are images via Twitter and iPhone in Canada that shows Edmonton and Montreal have started.


Update #3: More pics have come in now from across the country. Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa. the lineup in Toronto is about 300 at the Eaton Centre.


Discussion

151 comments for “iPhone 5 lineups have started in Canada”

  • KeithTalent

    Pathetic.

    • Bobblehead

      What’s more pathetic – 55 Android Tea Party’ers calling this person names for a phone he likes or 1 person lining up for a phone he likes?

      I’ll go with both, but double-down on the naming calling.

    • Zombie Ted Rogers

      pathetic indeed. In a world where millions of people line up for a bowl of rice and clean water.

      First world problems.

    • Wilborn

      WHERE ARE THE FANDROID FANBOIS NOW???? LINING UP IN THEIR PARENTS BASEMENT USING ANDROID LOL!!!!

    • uWE

      Tell me, will there be a line up like this for bb10? lol

    • boojay

      Ba ba iSheep, have you any dough? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.

    • Taka

      fandroid Fanbois are mad because this is something they wished for and never got.

      WHERE YA AT FANDROID FANBOIS? LOL parents basement?

    • Geoff

      @Taka: Android fans have been wishing that they could line up for hours in hopes of buying the phone they want? How does that even make sense? Or do you mean the specs, like the screen that is smaller than the phone I bought last year? Or LTE that’s been out for Android for a year now?

    • sp

      @Taka lol its okay…. are you mad bro??

      so let me get this straight… none iPhone users wish and pray that we could have a piece of tech that people have been waiting for since 2010?

      the rest of us that arent iPhone users but choose to go Android are jealous of a phone that is underwhelmingly an incremental upgrade to what was already available?

      hmmm and Android users are jobless live at home people? man your logic just made me see the light bro…iPhone me up!! SMH!!!

      you make yourself sound like you might be the one living in your parents basement lol.

      this new iteration of your beloved iPhone is already dated and gonna cost you more than what you already got now…if you even have an iPhone bro…dont be mad okay.

  • Benz

    LOSER! get a job!

    • steve

      can’t wait for my new iphone!… umm can i borrow your nexus just to check the times on the subway so I can get home on time for dinner. thanks

    • jeremy

      This is a joke!! Lmfao hopefully these people are locals. They relied on Google Maps to get them there on there using the 4s, and now Apple maps is suppose to help them get home? Ha that’s going to be a long trip! :p

  • nrj4life

    LOL. Need I say more?

  • Dalex

    Pathetic devotion for a company that doesn’t give a flying **** about you besides when it comes to your wallet.

  • Graveyard

    RIP APPLE. BURN IN HELL

  • TestMe

    At least he has his iSheep 4S to keep him entertained

    • ns.dev

      The iSheep 4s was disabled when the iSheep 5 was announced.

    • Matt

      For the next few hours until the battery is dead. Then what?

    • Mr. Miyagi

      He is not even using his 4s… Looks like he is reading a book, the book might be more innovative…

    • vn33

      ^^ Maybe book publishers are next on Apple’s lawsuit list !! Lol !!

  • Gsizzle

    All WP8 Fanatics and Fandroids should make Fun of them as they go by, recreate scenes from the latest Samsung Ad. Now that would be hilarious.

    • some guy

      I’m throwing on jeans, a plaid shirt, straw hat, rubber boots, and gonna head on down to the Eaton Center with my shears.

      I’ll just see if anyone in the line gets it.

  • ns.dev

    I wonder what the aliens studying us think…

    • Kroms

      Apple Iphone Users just lowered the Intellectual level of humanity.

      Mindless people.

  • HighClassFrenchCricket

    why not order online? whats the point of waiting for hours in a line with smelly hipster teabgs?

    • GuyInChair

      Chillout man!; you are a Barista!!

    • pacalis

      Hard to order online when you’re using the 4s tiny screen.

    • JC Denton

      To save a spot for my parents. :D

  • GuyInChair

    That guy on the chair (Michael Lamb), has an GS3 in his pocket. He is just saving a place for his parents who want to buy an iPhone5. His parents think that they are getting the phone that has NFC LOL!!

    By the way, the lst name of the family is: “Lamb”

    • HighClassFrenchCricket

      thank you for explaining your own joke, buddy.

  • BB10

    Is this the line-up for BB10?

  • js

    If you look hard enough you will notice it’s a human, not a sheep.

  • cococly

    People can’t wait to sign another 3-year contracts with their service providers? COol Story?

    • ns.dev

      I think they need to start compounding contracts for them.

      “Oh you want to replace your iPhone 4s you got on a 3 year, 1 year ago? OK, sign this 5 year contract.”

    • GuyInChair

      iPhone 5???
      -$255 on a 5 yr Contract at $73 (Trademarked price) for you then!

      -Michael Lamb: Where do I sign??; ahem I have to wait for my parents, is their phone after all.

  • LambChop

    baaa baaa

  • Threecube

    While he stands and waits for his iPhone 5, I will be sitting in my comfy office chair staring at my iPhone 4 imagining that it has widgets like my Nexus tablet.

  • BB King

    Pathetic sheep!

  • Shenzen

    is this lineup for the bb10?

  • John

    Really your going to be in a line up for 22 hours!

    • GuyInChair

      What happens when they close Eatons Centre at night? do they get numbers of something and they come back the following morning?
      Do they have these apps in their current phones?
      ipee
      ipoo
      ieat
      isleep
      ibrush my teeth in the morning

  • ActivesiN

    I guess Noone told the sheep he could order online…maybe someone will reenact the galaxy s3 commercials with him

  • Justin Credible

    I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

  • Mark

    Why Are People Lines Up…. Every Wireless retailer Will Have It. Go To The Source. They Have Tons

  • youneedserioushelp

    The 5 stages of IPhone 5 Grief
    Denial
    That can’t be it. I was sure all of the leaks were fake. I dont undestand. theres no way Apple would make something so boring.Surely Steve jobs is just playing a prank from the grave.
    Anger
    Are you F**king kidding me?! Its just a f**king streched out
    Iphone?! The Samsung Galaxy Note II 4G LTE has a bigger
    screen AND more words and numbers in its name. APPLE FAIL

  • youneedserioushelp

    Bargaining
    Well it DOES have fancy, branded, names like “Lightning
    connector” for every single one of its tiny new features and I’ve been informed it’s “magical” and “feels good in the hand”

    • uneedhelpbadly

      Depression
      For wanting something that is only marginally better than what you already have.
      Acceptance
      Throws money at Apple anyways.

  • Hilman

    I don’t see a lineup in that picture? All the customers must have walked over to the Future Shop for a Galaxy S3 :)

    • OGOD

      I see the first person in the pic, is that what it means by “LINE UP”. One person line up by himself…LOL

  • James Skevis

    Definitely needs to get a life, maybe he can take a shower when they wash the floors once the mall closes tonight.

  • Professional

    yeah…he looks like an employed professional…:S

    /s

  • Drew

    He wants the be the one tomorrow that says.. FIRST!!
    probably wants to be on the news as well

  • nrj4life

    @js

    Don’t be fooled. It’s a sheep wearing a human outfit.

  • Cody

    Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha bahahaha bhahahahahaha

    • blackprince

      drop the h and thats the sound he makes

  • shadyguy

    See how he is looking down – baaaaing to apple.

  • zangetsu

    10.25 minimum wage times 22 hours = 225.50. Lol

  • David

    They need some shepherds and dogs to herd the sheeps.

  • shadyguy

    Would be great if he was one of those psycho guys that goes into Apple stores just to buy a product and smashes it to bits on the counter. Great news story. I saw a guy do it with an ipod – not sure what his issue was.

    • GuyInChair

      He simply saw the result of being inline for 22hrs and thought it was not worth the hype??

  • Betty Koyle

    When do we have to line up for bb10.

    • Hilman

      Bad news is it won’t be until 2015.

      Good news is that you will be the only in the “lineup” as no one will want Blackberry’s anymore.

  • Gene

    I thought they are only selling carrier locked versions? Why in the name of all that’s holy would someone line up for this?

  • js

    Did anyone actually confirm he’s ‘in line’? Sometimes I just stand outside a store while my girlfriend looks at the crap inside.

    • dixmak

      Do you bring a chair?

    • js

      my bad i was looking at the guy on the left standing, didn’t even notice the guy on the right.

  • bb

    I can’t tell if the writer is making fun of the line up, or is really all over apples crotches. Doesn’t seem to be news worthy, but I guess when apple is paying you to promote you kind of have too.

  • Allan

    Jehovah’s witness patented pushing younr android religion on to iPhone users. You guys might end up paying $1b to them :D

  • bb

    plan occupy valuable mall space for a line up, they better have food and a dj in there or you just look like someone who makes too much money or your jobless. wonder how your boss feels about you taking off work to wait in line for a phone

  • Black Power Ranger

    love how everyone gets so worked up about some one waiting in line to get a phone. can’t even buy a phone now-a-days without everyone else calling you an iSheep or a fandroid. Why do you care what phone i buy? whether its an iPhone or android or what ever. im not using YOUR money to buy my phone. maybe i like the iPhone, maybe i like the android! my money, my phone, my choice!!

    • Tomatoes

      I dont know about you but I care about humanity and the earth.

      The super short winters concern me. The overpopulation we are experiencing concerns me as well. However, what concerns me the most is the overpopulation of isheep, especially ones stupid enough to line up to buy a carrier locked iphone 5.

    • some guy

      Take your common sense and go! Your kind are not welcome on the interwebz! OUT! :)

  • DrWhom

    Bad dream = being a mall for 22hrs
    Worst nightmare = bad dream + paying for a POS iPhone 5

  • Simon

    Has anyone thought that maybe Apple themselves pay these people to wait in line in order to create some free publicity?

    Why else would you sit there without even another poor soul sitting next to you??

    • Mr. Miyagi

      How would that be “free” publicity if they are “paying” them lol…

  • nrj4life

    @js

    Perhaps. But do you sit in a chair that you brought yourself and wait while she’s in a store?

    He could have went in to browse and came out brainwashed. That book he’s reading looks to be an Apple holy book of sorts.

    OR, he could just be a sheep in human clothing so as not to be carted away for being loose inside a public mall.

  • iphoneuser

    People waiting in line for an iPhone is so 2010. This guys has to get with the times. It just ain’t cool anymore bro.

    • Dalex

      If waiting in line for a phone, let alone a POS like the iphone, was ever ‘cool’, I will lose even more respect for mankind.

  • justfox87

    The intense hostility on the site over a freaking PHONE really makes me worry about the human race.

    • hmmmm

      justfox87
      It’s not over a phone, it’s more about being part of Apple’s own hypocrisy…it’s weird to see people defending these hypocrites and giving them money blindly. And IF the media was not defending Apple the same way, it would be a lot better already.

    • Tomatoes

      I agree, I worry about humanity all the time. Unfortuantely, most fo my worries stem from the intelligence or lack of intelligence in our population. I fear that some cults have too much influence over the people that join. The biggest offender at the moment seems to be the icult or the sheep cult.haha

  • Kat

    ridiculous

    line ups have started for the Montreal store as well…

    • pbrbbt

      no one cares

  • sp

    I will be walking by the Eaton Center line tonight around 2am. I will be filming the line when I get off of work.

    It will be posted on YouTube as iSheep herded vs the SGS3

    instant classic

  • Charles

    What line up? I went by Pacific Centre in Vancouver this morning. Nothing.

    • Tomatoes

      Good. At least my fellow Vancouverites have the common sense to research that they are not sellling unlocked phones before lining up.

  • mmathieum

    I don’t mind if you want an iPhone, but stop behaving like a jerk.

  • shadyguy

    isheep are so blind. Fandroids are Bullys? Try Apple. Apple are ones that are the multibillion dollar company you are dolling out money to that is suing bloody local supermarkets in poland for having a logo because “it confuses” people. LOL Please isheep support this type of company – line up and give them all the money you can.

  • katadare

    I wonder if they know that you can’t buy an unlocked one from the store…

  • RickyB82

    ^ This is totally the guy messaging from the line

  • ilovemygrandpa

    back off assh**es .. He is my Grandfather…..

  • Collin

    this kid is gonna sit at the eaton center over night just for a friggin phone!!! What a loser!!!

  • ilovemygrandpa

    He is my Grandfather .. Pls dont prank him

  • pbrbbt

    Welcome to FandroidSyrup

  • Shane

    I prefer Android over IOS, but the new maps are pretty cool. Nice upgrade over googles offering.

  • Tomatoes

    Wait?! Didn’t Apple say the only way to get an unlocked phone is online?

    This person is either the ultimate sheep or he is too stupid to line up at his carrier of choice instead. Although these days you can’t be one without the other.

  • zorro

    this site has the worst commmenters i have ever seen

  • johentie

    how does apple sign people up to contracts on carriers? i thought Canada wasn’t getting the unlocked version? or am i totally wrong?

    and 1 person less then 24hrs to launch in line is pretty small in comparison to the people in the USA.. and they say it’s for the experience ; > i dunno how not showering, or sleeping in a bed and being cold is an experience!?

    I’d rather be camping in the woods enjoying a fire if i am going to bed cold and without a bed..

    • Tomatoes

      Apple is a retail store like Futurshop and Bestbuy. They have staff with access to the Rogers, Bell, Telus systems and can sign people up for 3 years at the Apple store.

      I am guessing that he doesn’t know that you can’t buy unlocked or Mobilesyrup tricked us so their editors can go hoard all the unlocked iphone 5s for themselves and make a fortune on Craigslist.

  • Jon

    It’s not pathetic. They’re just saving a spot for their grandma. Don’t you know. iPhone is an old person phone now because it’s do easy to use. That Android is too complicated for seniors.

  • zzZZzz

    people, people calm down! maybe he’s there just to document the iPhone sales event :)

  • Cyrus

    These android fans are pretty annoying. So jealous nobody cares about their Galaxy SSSDDS solar system 4.6 HD LTE Quantum 23.5 Cosmo QUAZAR note 3.565456 PI DELTA OMEGA Ultimate UNIVERSE phone

    Nobody CARES about your opinions

    • dixmak

      I just call mine an S3, but anyways…

    • sp

      i dont know…. 9 million preorders

      and 20 million sold..i think a lot of people care about the SGS3 and other peoples opinion.

      2 million iSheep preorders cant be wrong either but thats cause they are just obeying what daddy Jobs and the Apple cult says in their preachings..

    • AM Radio

      whoa, there’s a already a new phone from SAMSUNG? this one sounds even better than the SGS3! which means it will be much much better than iPhone5, lol.

    • johentie

      obviously the millions of people activating android devices a day care…

  • Porilaisten

    I’m gonna walk by there and FART.

  • mattprime86

    I’m typing this on a GS2 and I’m actually embarrassed to be reading the shout you morons are writing.

    You really think he didn’t have a job? Or he’s poor?

    Get a life, you i****s

    • OgtheDim

      I think it very likely he’s being paid to do this. Not by Apple, but by someobody with a regular 9-5 job.

  • mattprime86

    ^ and you all know what “shout” should say

  • manny

    Never seen anybody waiting for an android device like this, because they are always available in the market…..

  • david lee

    Apple tried really hard to make the micro sim card smaller and they did achieve that. The nano sim is born, smaller than micro sim card. Apple could just take it one step further and have it build into the phone and call it CDMA technology. Slap a patent sticker on that and it all good to go. GSM progression toward CDMA technology again everyone.With hope that Apple is not going backward on technology.

  • opinions

    I work for one of the big 3. We sell more than twice as many iphones than any android device. We repair twice as many androids than iphones.

    • sp

      thats a load of crap.

      a lot of people who need their iPhone repaired does not bring it to one of the Big 3 to get it repaired.

      a lot get it done at other places. Pac Mall per say, Chinatown shops, after market shops etc etc..

      dont give me that BS

    • OGOD

      The company i worked b4, they used to carry fido. Their stuff only know how to sell iphone. Somehow this yr Fido took their licence back(kick them away). They now carrying Wind and Mobilicity….and their sales drop so much. Coz they don’t know how to sell Android. As a sales, i suggest u start selling more android. Look at blackberry or nokia….be smart my fd. # of Android users is already over iphone users in the world. Prepare for the change…(everything is delay in canada)

      The reason y iphone don’t need to repair, cx just need to go into an apple store give them a fake name and fake email, they will give u a new one. Don’t even need a receipt or ID, that’s what i did b4.

    • NorOntByndWrlss

      He repair twice as many Androids? That does not make sense. Our company does not directly repair iPhones and I can tell you the amount of people that I have to refer to Apple Support is way more than the amount of Adroid phones that get sent out for repair. It is always software issues with Apple and I would easily say that it is probly about 50% of iphones that have software issues.

  • roman20

    It takes at least two points to make a line.

    • OGOD

      isheep and isheep, this two reason enough for line up. Every year is the same reason…LOL

  • basement dweller

    Omg iSheep lulz baaaah baaaah baaaah lul

  • Rip rim

    iDiots

  • Quinn

    I bet this guy just stopped to write a text and now he’s getting bashed like crazy. Lawl.

  • DrBadass

    Imma dress up like an iphone 5 and see if anyone buys me.

    • OGOD

      U might get beat up…LOL

  • imnot telling

    Funny… they don’t look like my parents.

    • OGOD

      How old are u?LOL….maybe looks like someone perents.
      Some of them get pay to line up.

  • Chuck

    Why do you people care so much of what these guys want to do with their money? At least there not out committing crimes buying guns or drugs . Good luck to all who are out there ..

  • Kroms

    Apple pays people to do this. No person can be that stupid to do this..can they?

  • Apple Fan

    You guys don’t understand. This is a great product. You guys are jealous and once again…iphone has revolutionized the industry. Samsung will take years to catch up. If you’re not down with that, I have two words for ya!

  • Turbo E

    First in line to sell his phone on eBay.

  • Shawn Michaels

    The iphone is the ICONNNNNNNNNNN, it is the MAIN EVENT, it is THE SHOWWWWW STOPPPERRRR. Eat your HEARTS OUT FANDROIDS, hands off the MERCHANDISEEEEEEEEEEEE

    *SEXY BOY DANCE*

  • The Rock

    finally…finallly!…FINNAAALLYYYYYYYYYYYY

    THE IPHONE HAS COME BACK…TO THE MARKET!

    IF YA SMELLL LA LA LA LA LA OWEEEEEEE…WHAT APPLE IS COOKING!

  • Bret Hart

    Apple is the best there is, best there was, and the best there ever will be!

  • John Cena

    Samsung…YOU CAN’T SEE US!

  • thepeddle

    I don’t believe any sheep on here actually believes any of the BS they spew…..their only argument “iphone is awesome” has been played out I think…..

  • NorOntByndWrlss

    Maybe the person who is first in line can sell his spot for enoigh money to cover his upgrade fee and the cost of the phone. Probly not though… which iSheep would be intelligent enough to think of that. They just need their phones. They are like zombies that need brains. Lol

  • kedaR

    lineups will be short this time – you cannot find Apple stores in the Apple maps :-)

  • Phill

    android fans piss me off, i have used almost every android phone and even had an sgs3 for a few weeks. the sgs felt flimsy in my hand and i had to go through so much crap to do simple s**t. and i pay $800 for the new iphone cause i can afford it and dont want to waste money on a crappy samsung and not be happy. so the iphone doesnt have NFC, so what, no one uses it ever. and if you do use it, you have no life once so ever. and i also have to agree that standing on line for a phone is the most ridiculous thing to do. just because apple b***h slapped the hell out of samsung, people are just mad. relax……. its a damn phone….get a life…..go outside…..meet women….. android people are pathetic.

  • C. BothSides

    Come on, stop being so hard on these folks, they’re not sheep!

    …They’re actually lemmings.

  • Marco

    These people need to get a LIFE. Not an iLife… but a REAL life!

  • coco

    stupid people use iphone and stupid people do stupid things

  • Vampiresonfire

    Any line ups in Orleans,Ontario?

  • Mars

    I wish i had that kind of time on my hands. I would probably get a chair, some drinks and chill in front of the apple store too.:)

  • Anthony

    lol

  • Rick James

    Who can afford to miss a day of work to get a damn cellphone….

    isheep :Boss i need my Friday off,
    Boss : As long its important i don’t mind, I’ll get someone in ot to cover for ya.

    Monday

    Boss: so……about Friday
    isheep: thanks again you saved my life,
    Boss: Really? Waiting in line for a damn phone was more important that your work?
    isheep: well……of course, you want to see it?
    Boss : So you tell me that you missed a day of work to wait in line to get a new cellphone,that you could have got during the weekend at any time…..
    isheep: well…..
    Boss : Well since you are a professional when it come to wait in line,im strongly suggest you to go wait in line right now at the unemployment office,you gonna need a new job real soon to pay that new toys of yours.
    isheep : i got a job here…….
    Boss: Not anymore we upgraded to the worker version 2.0 since you are the last year model we don’t need your service anymore .

  • Anonymous

    I personally work for a cellphone company and since early iOs6 its been war state in store. So many defective iPhone 4 and some 4s gave us so many pre order of iPhone 5. How can you buy from a company that create deffectiveness so you will buy their ” new” world war 2 technology every year. Ohh yea I forgot, at twice the price its worth.

  • dubs

    Get a job people!

  • Warren

    Glad my pic made it to the website! Thanks Mobilesyrup, lol!

  • dubs

    Do these people not know how to preorder? Oh wait I forgot they won’t get Internet until the 4th revision of the iphone 4… The iphone 5s.

  • iZombie

    How come knowbody lines up for Android/Samsung?

  • Davor

    It’s just a phone people. You really don’t need to be the first one in your super cool friends group to have it. Really.

  • Phantom

    losers get a life