Class XI student Sujan Saha (left) waited in the queue, ahead of 61 others, for five hours. Shahnawaz Hussain (right) came all the way from Kharagpur.
The two were among the 65-odd outside the Apple store at Quest mall at Thursday midnight, when iPhone6S and iPhone6S Plus were launched in the city.
The lights at the Park Circus mall were on as the clock struck 12 but it was the eager group outside Imagine — the Apple store on the ground floor — that kept the shopping hub abuzz.
“Some of my friends own Apple phones and I used to envy them. Now, I will have the latest iPhone and they will be jealous,” said Sujan, a student of La Martiniere.
“I wanted to be the first in the queue. It was awkward to stand outside a store for five hours but the thought of being the first in the city to hold the latest iPhone egged me on.”
Standing behind him was Shahnawaz, who has just graduated in electrical engineering from a private institute in Kharagpur. “I was the first to arrive. I thought of taking a stroll around the mall and when I came back around 7.30pm, someone was already standing in the queue,” he said.
Now, Sujan and Shahnawaz both are proud owners of 6S.
The shop remained open till 4am and sold 150-plus units, priced between Rs 62,000 (16GB model of iPhone6S) and Rs 92,000 (128GB model of iPhone6S Plus). Almost half of the first lot was sold.
Text: Tamaghna Banerjee
Pictures: Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya
