{"id":250000,"date":"2026-05-19T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-forgotten-overnight-queues-for-the-iphone-4s-in-2011\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:30:08","slug":"the-forgotten-overnight-queues-for-the-iphone-4s-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-forgotten-overnight-queues-for-the-iphone-4s-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten overnight queues for the iPhone 4S in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/forgotten-overnight-queues-iphone-4s-023000595.html\">The forgotten overnight queues for the iPhone 4S in 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/forgotten-overnight-queues-iphone-4s-023000595.html\">https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/forgotten-overnight-queues-iphone-4s-023000595.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 22:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"uk.news.yahoo.com\">uk.news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crisp autumn air was abuzz with an anticipatory electricity for what would transform the mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The in-person smartphone cultural phenomenon reached its zenith on October 15, 2011, when queues of shoppers outside the Apple Store inside Southampton\u2019s Westquay shopping centre waited for the latest handset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The reason why so many shoppers flocked in their droves was out of a great desperation to own the very latest piece of hi-tech wizardry, namely the iPhone 4S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">New Apple iPhone 4S launch at the Apple Store in WestQuay shopping centre. Friday 14th October 2011. Store employees applaud their queueing customers as the store opens. (Image: Echo)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chaotic happy-go-lucky mood of the morning was captured by the Echo, who recorded the event with the paean: &#8220;We\u2019re all so appy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dozens of tired and relieved shoppers hurriedly exited the shop, gleefully shouting &#8220;I got one! I got one!&#8221;, revelling in the knowledge that they were now officially among the very first people in the UK to physically own Apple&#8217;s latest mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driving force for their long overnight queues was a revolutionary new feature which is today considered utterly mundane &#8211; a brand-new application that could actually speak back to the user.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was an early wild leap into voice-assistant technology and the alluring novelty of the product proved itself sufficient enough to induce dedicated technology nerds with a willingness to wait up overnight ahead of the phone\u2019s official release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Die-hard 17-year-old Vincent Lao, who was a student at Peter Symonds College, Winchester, was first in line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The young man began queuing outside the Southampton store at 10.30pm two nights beforehand in order to claim his new toy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">New Apple iPhone 4S launch at the Apple Store in WestQuay shopping centre. Friday 14th October 2011. Store employees applaud their queueing customers as the store opens. (Image: Echo)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His overnight vigil paid off when he became the very first customer to exit the shop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/forgotten-overnight-queues-iphone-4s-023000595.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forgotten overnight queues for the iPhone 4S in 2011 https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/forgotten-overnight-queues-iphone-4s-023000595.html Publish Date: 2026-05-19 22:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/daily_echo_904\/1443e42ed88ef0611fa4285554338be9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250002,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250000\/revisions\/250002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}