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Which Phone will you order?

  • iPhone 8

    Votes: 19 1.2%
  • iPhone 8 plus

    Votes: 60 3.8%
  • iPhone X

    Votes: 1,527 96.6%

  • Total voters
    1,581
Here's another launch day story, but it's not a horror story.

We were on the Verizon network, but I let our contract run out to a month-to-month situation because I wanted the new iPhone and it was on the AT&T network. We're talking the original iPhone. So launch days comes and it's a Friday and I don't do anything to try to get the iPhone. Then, the next day, I call the Columbia, MD Apple Store out of curiosity. I get an employee and say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but I am curious. How many people are in line for the iPhone?" The Apple store employee replied, "Oh, there are no lines." I said, "No lines? Well, do you have any iPhones?" He replied, "Oh yes, we have iPhones." I said, "Thank you very much." Then I got into my car and made beeline to the Apple Store to buy the first iPhone."
What model was that? Ive never pre ordered or anything, until this year for the X. I always just walk into the Verizon store opening weekend at some point and they have em. I'm not too picky about color and I live in a smaller city so maybe thats why.
 
Why would you change it to P/U at CC if you live so far away from UPS? Do they deliver at 8pm everyday? My UPS usually comes between 1 and 2, so I’m working from home and waiting, and my UPS CC is only 20 minutes away.

It’s late afternoon, and I know how anxious I’m going to be so I might as well drive and p/u. I have stores closer but not a CC.
 
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The accessories are here!!! Get your box to Kentucky and boomerang it back to me in Cal-eee-for-nye-ay. Yeeeeeeehaaw!
 
The link posted earlier by another user changed to Wales, AK > Anchorage, AK. I think we stopped for fuel. Not sure though.

Here are my shipping details:

ZhengZhou, China 10/31/2017 10:39 P.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 10/29/2017 12:57 A.M. Arrival Scan
10/29/2017 12:30 A.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 10/28/2017 5:56 P.M. Origin Scan
China 10/29/2017 3:23 P.M. (ET) Order Processed: Ready for UPS

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NCR628

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NCR628/history/20171031/1220Z/ZHCC/PANC
My phone shows a 10:39 departure scan from ZhengZhou does that mean I’m on flight ncr628?
 
Would you know that with the current appox location of the flight, would the onboard guidance system have picked up the Glide-slope radios for the ILS approach? Or is the plane still too far for that?
The plane won’t pick up the glideslope til around 10-20 Miles out. The runway ILS/VOR could be further than that though for lateral navigation.
 
I have a 11/3 date but i havent even gotten any shipping notifications. It's been in preparing for shipment for 2 days now.
None of us have shipping statues. Won't see them until our phones reach Louisville or another UPS regional hub. Currently, we're tracking our devices by using the "track by reference" feature on UPS.com and inputting our Apple order number minus the last 2 numbers.
 
My phone shows a 10:39 departure scan from ZhengZhou does that mean I’m on flight ncr628?

Yes. That’s what we have predicted in the thread so far. We should get a change to “shipped” with Apple.com once it hits Kentucky from what I’ve gathered stalking this thread the past few days.
 
ZhengZhou, China 10/30/20171:35 A.M. Arrival Scan
10/30/2017 1:20 A.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 10/29/20175:46 P.M.Origin Scan
China 10/29/2017 7:06 A.M. (ET)Order Processed: Ready for UPS

My departure time is 10/30 1:20 AM. I'm assuming all the flights on the Flightaware page are 10/31, no?
 
I'm mildy surprised there isn't one of us who lives in anchorage standing outside the airport fence with binoculars to advise time of landing. LOL. Sigh. Guess I have to settle for refreshing the flight aware page. :D
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I'm a beta tester so I've had it.
Any battery improvements? I’ve heard there were and I’m in desperate need! I didn’t do 11.0.3 on purpose cause I heard there were nightmare battery stories.
 
ZhengZhou, China 10/30/20171:35 A.M. Arrival Scan
10/30/2017 1:20 A.M. Departure Scan
ZhengZhou, China 10/29/20175:46 P.M.Origin Scan
China 10/29/2017 7:06 A.M. (ET)Order Processed: Ready for UPS

My departure time is 10/30 1:20 AM. I'm assuming all the flights on the Flightaware page are 10/31, no?

That 1:20 departure is from one warehouse to another. You can tell because you have an arrival 15 minutes later in the same city. If your iPhone is on the NC8628 it would have another departure scan at 10:39pm out of Zhengzhou.
 
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The accessories are here!!! Get your box to Kentucky and boomerang it back to me in Cal-eee-for-nye-ay. Yeeeeeeehaaw!
Off topic, but will the wireless charging work with that case? I just had that case delivered as well, but haven’t researched the compatibility.
 
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