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Pre-Orders for Next-Generation iPhone to Begin September 12?
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lol, sorry. You just reminded me of a friend who's still on 3G, paying $80 a month for a contract that has been over for two years
I feel for u Americans, ur phone companies shaft you, but then your petrol is alot cheaper...
Who prefers to pre-order? I personally enjoy making the trip to an Apple Store to purchase my product in person.
Great post, bro.
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Sure hope the 5 finally works on the T-Mobile bands.
AT&T and Verizon are only for suckers....
This is the only Apple announcement I care about.
What a bugger. I'm in Florida from 7th Sept to 18th Sept!
If pre orders do start on the 12th in the UK, will I be able to order one online while in the US with my iPad? i.e. It's not going to stop me is it because it thinks I'm based in the US due to my IP address while over there?
They don't care where you're ordering from.
If you want it delivered to a UK address, order it through the UK website and have a UK credit card.
Simples.
people who want in on launch day and do not want to camp out at 10pm the night before or wait in line for 8 hours
But we're forced to drive everywhere as public transportation is either nonexistent or terrible. I'd rather have good public transportation and higher gas prices.
this could happen i guess. i wonder if the new iPad mini and iPod touch will also launch on the same days and also be up for pre-order?
I used to wait in the long line, but now I just have it delivered to the house, much nicer.
I'm going to call it now, and say scoring a phone on release day by just walking into the store will probably work in many metro areas.
Tim Cook has it under control.
Tim Cook has it under control.
I've been a loyal Tmobile customer since they were Omnipoint! Waited through 5 generations of IPhones for them to get that damn phone with frequent disappointment. If it doesn't come on the 12th I'm out and off to Verizon or AT&T, can't wait any longer! I want to talk to Siri!!!
Anyone familiar with the Sprint Employee referral program and know if new phones are generally available there?
I'm planning on pre ordering the new iPhone and want to use the discounted Sprint plan. Do you think I could or is that program limited to certain phones?
I'm planning on pre ordering the new iPhone and want to use the discounted Sprint plan. Do you think I could or is that program limited to certain phones?
While LTE is nice, my Swiss carrier has recently just shafted their whole customer base with their new plans: "You want LTE speed? Pay $169/month to get it."
http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/mobile/subscription-tariffs.html
I currently pay $35/month for 250 MB plus a few bucks on calls (I also just get about $300 for new handset subsidies). To just keep my current iPhone 4 speed, I would nearly have to triple my current spending to $99/month with their new system.
If I hadn't missed my cancellation window, I would be signing up to another carrier already.
This year I'm breaking the chain and _not_ pre-ordering a new iPhone.
Instead I'm going to sit back, relax and read the frantic reports of buyers waiting for theirs to arrive. Hanging on every word to see who get's theirs first.
I'll be reading the complaints about FedEx, and all the other angst that typically surfaces on the forum when a new iPhone is in the wind.
Then there will be the reviews, reports and other analysis of every bit of minutia.
Ah yes, it ought to be interesting to see just what this latest iPhone is like.
Instead I'm going to sit back, relax and read the frantic reports of buyers waiting for theirs to arrive. Hanging on every word to see who get's theirs first.
I'll be reading the complaints about FedEx, and all the other angst that typically surfaces on the forum when a new iPhone is in the wind.
Then there will be the reviews, reports and other analysis of every bit of minutia.
Ah yes, it ought to be interesting to see just what this latest iPhone is like.
At&t?
Unfortunately if you have AT&T you WILL get throttled after 5gb of use of LTE and 3GB of use for 3G. I found this out this week and I've had the unlimited plan since the first iPhone.
Shame, gotta buy it full price if I want to keep my unlimited, unthrottled LTE
Unfortunately if you have AT&T you WILL get throttled after 5gb of use of LTE and 3GB of use for 3G. I found this out this week and I've had the unlimited plan since the first iPhone.
Well in the UK 4g LTE doesn't mean a thing as we dont get it i mean for crying out loud we still don't get visual voicemail from the iphone 4 launch so at the moment the new iphone offers nothing but a bigger screen as the mobile phone companies wont spend the money to offer the services.
So while you guys are cooing over LTE AND VV AND NFC think of ur poor cousins that dont get any of these things
So while you guys are cooing over LTE AND VV AND NFC think of ur poor cousins that dont get any of these things
Yep, agreed. And we're going to pay for it as oil gets more expensive/hard to find. It's not an infinite resource and our economy very much depends on it not getting expensive.
That's exactly why my "the new iPad" was on my front porch on launch day. Mobile App went through on 2nd try
I'm using this tactic. I'll be at work during the keynote so I may sneak a break afterwards and order straight from my phone.
Ha, I did that last year (new products coming out are fun to watch even if you aren't getting them just for all the drama
). But that's not me breaking any chain cause I only buy when my contract is out.But, this time around I may wait and see what reviews say, especially if nothing really grabs my attention (and they don't address how this phone will have the same battery life while not having an appreciably bigger battery but having LTE and a bigger screen. I mean if they come up iwth a good explanation why it won't need as much battery or won't need more battery than a 4 I might take the plunge and get it when it comes out, but we'll see. I want to see the announcement first and see what it officially has and their official expected battery life).
I know, but shouldn't the one they give me be good enough? Anyway, the public ones are only a small improvement over the terrible FiOS one. I've tried Google and OpenDNS, and they're still both slower than the default DNS I see at other persons' houses. A regular webpage loads faster overall on my grandparents' DSL than on our FiOS.
Now that I think about it, there is a chance of it somehow being our router's fault. The FiOS router they give us is a clunky Actiontec router that uses a MOCA input, and I'm pretty much stuck with it unless I want a MOCA to ethernet adaptor and an Airport Extreme router.