iPhone 4S Launch to Double AT&T's Record for Activations

...And people said the iPhone 4S was a flop...

Too bad its taken me 5 hours and I still don't have my phone activated. It sounds like this is happening to a lot of people so maybe AT&T won't set any records if they actually can't get people activated.

ckurt25 said:

Too bad its taken me 5 hours and I still don't have my phone activated. It sounds like this is happening to a lot of people so maybe AT&T won't set any records if they actually can't get people activated.

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Same here. SO FRUSTRATED! Calling corporate for a credit to my account. It's BS.

I plan to go with at&t, but if they don't sort this out soon I may have to go with Verizon.

But under no circumstances Sprint.

AT&T botched my order made at 7AM on the 7th and is telling me 28 days. I'm off contract and going to Verizon.

Blaunerts said:

Same here. SO FRUSTRATED! Calling corporate for a credit to my account. It's BS.

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Does your old phone not work? Seems like a lot of frustration over a little delay in activating the phone. It's not like the phone doesn't work in the meantime for all its other functions.

dave420 said:

It's not like the phone doesn't work in the meantime for all its other functions.

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The 4s can't do anything else until it's activated.

dave420 said:

Does your old phone not work? Seems like a lot of frustration over a little delay in activating the phone. It's not like the phone doesn't work in the meantime for all its other functions.

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Actually it's exactly like the phone doesn't work in the meantime for all its other functions.

Finally managed to activate mine after around 6 hours.

Seriously, even if 500,000 iPhones attempted activation on AT&T today, the servers should have been able to handle it. Is there some manual process involved on their end or something?

Guess I was lucky today - one was delivered around noon and activated within minutes the second one got delivered around 4pm and activated within minutes (both AT&T) ....

dave420 said:

It's not like the phone doesn't work in the meantime for all its other functions.

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Except it is exactly like that.

As far as I can tell, the phone can only be used for an emergency call until the activation is complete.

They're actually activating phones? I tried to call and got routed to a message saying they were closed and to call back during normal business hours. ALl day and my 4S is still a brick. That's it. I'm sending it back. I'll wait a while and move over to Verizon. This is idiotic. Keeping the 3Gs for now.

blybug said:

Actually it's exactly like the phone doesn't work in the meantime for all its other functions.

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The message I got said I could wait for an email for the phone to be activated, but it said I could use all the other functions of the phone. Then it asked to restore from a backup. I am waiting for that to complete, but it sounded like the other functions would work after that.

But wait, according to these forums, the iPhone 4s was a huge fail? Imagine that. It's successful as hell on every carrier.

Hmmm.

Zincous said:

The 4s can't do anything else until it's activated.

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It makes a dandy paperweight here on my desk.

Apple benefits from having a user base who will buy new products regardless of how much they actually have to offer among their predecessor.

PeterQVenkman said:

But wait, according to these forums, the iPhone 4s was a huge fail? Imagine that. It's successful as hell on every carrier.

Hmmm.

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Our friends in Redmond, WA put put these negative stories every time Apple introduces anything. They obviously really got in with Huffpost because they have been talking about the "disappointing" product and sales which are both lies. The only disappointment I feel is with AT&T, soon to be my former carrier, but the product is fine. Ballmer just can't stand the success so he plants media stories to rubbish Apple.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Good: No problem registering the phone
Bad: Bluetooth range is SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than the 3G. Like 10' - 20' less
Ugly: Somewhere along the line the AT&T guy decided I needed a White one. My wife's came in black just like it was suppose to.

Good: It's most definately quicker on loading apps. I use Square quite a bit and it just loads, FAST.

Good: I had unlimited data on my old plan, I got to carry that over at NO extra charge. Yahoooooooooo

Ugly, did I mention it's white?

Still a brick here. Been a couple hours. Do yo guys keep trying to reactivate, or does it just eventually go?

Lame.

At&turd

I bought my iPhone online as a pre-order from apple. I got the phone at 1:50 EST via UPS.. I needed to buy the applecare + because my wife didn't purchase it as part of my order ( i know guys manhood points dropping here sorry.. ) anyway so I didn't open the package I took it straight to the apple store. I explained to the blue people that i needed to get the applecare + and that I had not opened the box. They were cool and said no problem we can figure it out.

1. I was told "we have to activate your phone first before we can get the applecare + attached to your phone. Cool I'm good with that."
2. the phone WONT activate I am getting the same message as everybody else.
3. after about 4 attempts. I get the well I was just talking to corporate and we can't sell you the applecare+ that has to come from At&turd.. I'm like ok whatever thats fine but activate my phone.. he looks at me and says well take it to at&tacos and have them do it I don't know whats wrong with it. Ok fine your just a minion I'm down with that.

4. I go to the at&trash store and I wait in line for about 40 minutes watching iPhone after iPhone get activated and the peeps walking out the door with them. Finally the REALLY HOT ITALIAN GIRL calls my name. of course I'm in the middle of hot tub fantasy with her until I realize she is pointing at the little fat chinese kid who is smiling at me as if he was in the hot tube with me... ugh.. bastard..
5. so I go over to him and give him my story he takes my phone and tries to activate in about 3 or 4 times... NO DEAL he is totally baffled and walks off. He comes back and say go home and try it there. I said ok what about the Applecare+ he said yeah no problem charges me 99 bux scans my iPhones box and takes my money..

it is now 6:18 pm EST and this phone has still not been activated

moral of the story don't pre-order your phone and hot italian chicks think I look good in a hot tub with a fat chinese kid.

mrsir2009 said:

...And people said the iPhone 4S was a flop...

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Ohhhhhh....... those Android fan boys are not gonna like this one bit

Why are people still choosing AT&T?

Given that there are two other carriers to choose from, and given four solid years of complaints from iPhone user's about AT&T's service, why the hell are people still choosing AT&T?

I understand that there are a relatively small amount of people out there who only get AT&T service at their home and/or workplace, and I understand if those kind of people choose AT&T. But it seems that the majority of people buying the iPhone 4S with AT&T are not those kind of people. Could someone please explain why?

OPEN LETTER TO PHIL SCHILLER:

Apple is no longer a toy company with ten customers. It's a major player. People depend on the products and services provided by Apple and pay very goo money for them. Stop with the same day mega-launches which cause everything to crash. Order on Friday, get it on Friday. Order on Monday, get it on Monday. Get it. That stretches the buzz without causing everything to fail.

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macse30 said:

AT&T botched my order made at 7AM on the 7th and is telling me 28 days. I'm off contract and going to Verizon.

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Dont blame you, after all, handling a million or so customers in one day cannot in any way be difficult can it?