Robot queued for a new iPhone 6s – Swedish Dagbladet

In Sydney decided Lucy Kelly to set a robot (in the foreground) to queue up for her. Photo: Glenn Nicholls / AP

Cheers could be heard outside Apple stores in London, Paris and Vancouver when the doors opened for the sale of the first iPhone 6s and 6s plus this morning. In London, was the first man to get their hands on a new mobile model line since Monday afternoon. In Australia decided Lucy Kelly for a different move. She put a robot to queue up in her place.

The robot, a computer screen on a Segway-like machine, did the job, and simultaneously gave publicity worldwide for Lucy Kelly’s work, which also behind the robots.

– I can not spend two days with queuing so my boss suggested I take one of the robots and use it to queue up in my place, said Lucy Kelly to the media.

New features in the new models includes a touch screen with 3D-sensing technology that senses how hard the user presses on the screen, improved camera and video recording with higher resolution.

Apple predicts that the new phone will beat all previous sales records. Pre-orders have according to the company have been in line with those of its predecessor, the iPhone 6, which was launched in September last year and sold more than 10 million copies in three days.

But from the other holes l the tasks that the queues were much shorter this year than last year and Andy Hargreaves, an analyst at Pacific Crest, told the Financial Times that the data including Google gives a different angle than the one from Apple.

– It looks like the demand for Iphone 6s is lower than it was for the iPhone 6, possibly considerably less.

Investors also have been concerned that sales will slow down in China after the country has shown signs of slowing down economically.

Selling iPhone 6s and 6s plus began on Friday in twelve countries worldwide, including Australia, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, China, New Zealand Puerto Rico, Singapore, Sweden, Germany and the United States.

It is uncertain when the phone will go on sale in Sweden, but according to the news agency Direkt, it may be the earliest of 2 October this year. Apple’s goal is that the new mobile models will be available in approximately 130 countries by year-end.