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Apple Now Accepting Pre-Orders for iPhone 4S, Unlocked Coming in November
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Wish mine would get here. I know the apple rep said it was there, but I'll feel a lot better once the email gets here.
Do AT&T pre orders typically ship from the U.S., or do they have Apple ship them direct from China?
is there anyway i can switch eligibility with a family member online or do I need to do that in-store?
It seems you are still given the year to purchase AppleCare+
In the AppleCare+ conditions, it states
4. What is not Covered?
11. General Terms
Have business accounts with both Sprint and AT&T. AT&T upgrade took 15-20 minutes, excellent!
Sprint, on the other hand..tried calling to upgrade, put on hold for 20 minutes, and then was told upgrades can only be done online. Tried doing it online, but do not remember pin #/passcode, was told to do an online chat. Tried doing online chat, with no response. Keep this up, Sprint, and you'll be losing 2 more lines in addition to the 10 you lost when the iPhones first came out and we switched to AT&T.
Sprint, on the other hand..tried calling to upgrade, put on hold for 20 minutes, and then was told upgrades can only be done online. Tried doing it online, but do not remember pin #/passcode, was told to do an online chat. Tried doing online chat, with no response. Keep this up, Sprint, and you'll be losing 2 more lines in addition to the 10 you lost when the iPhones first came out and we switched to AT&T.
I did this too. I really hope they don't do something dumb like cancel the order.
No guarantees this will still work, but this is what I have done in the past:
I ordered the new phone under the eligible line. When the phone arrived and I set it up, it turned off sim in that line's original phone. Therefore...
I put the new sim in the other family member's old phone (since ATT turned off the old sim). Also remember that some phones have DIFFERENT sized sims.
I then put my sim (again remember some phones have different size sims) in the new phone.
This was all with iPhones, so the iPhone data plans didn't get messed up or anything.
Again, don't know if it would still work, but worked for me before and was quite simple really.
Great, appreciate that information. Sounds like the order will hopefully go without a hitch then (knock on wood).
Of course it is. The people only really had the name to whine about. It's 2x faster, has 7x the graphical capabilities, and an 8 megapixel camera. On top of all this, it's in 64GB!
Really, there's nothing to complain about. It should sell fantastically well.
This happened last year when iPhone 4's were showing up on door steps the day before retail launch. Some attribute this to AT&T and their attempt to stagger the mass of activations and prevent the inevitable system crash that took down AT&T's servers on iPhone Day 2009.
siri
What I don't understand is why they locked siri to the 4g? Is it so processor intensive, the current app doesn't seem to be and neither do any of googles apps that do speach/voice recognition. Is it just to force people into a new phone? Could be, but it isn't very apple like, I mean they DO usually cut off the OLDEST iterations but they don't usually ex out everyone except the latest model? Seems sad that they too killed the app and will kill the service for the app entirely on 10/15/2011, so anyone who DOES use it won't be able to - unless they buy a new phone.
At least people didn't PAY for the siri app.
What I don't understand is why they locked siri to the 4g? Is it so processor intensive, the current app doesn't seem to be and neither do any of googles apps that do speach/voice recognition. Is it just to force people into a new phone? Could be, but it isn't very apple like, I mean they DO usually cut off the OLDEST iterations but they don't usually ex out everyone except the latest model? Seems sad that they too killed the app and will kill the service for the app entirely on 10/15/2011, so anyone who DOES use it won't be able to - unless they buy a new phone.
At least people didn't PAY for the siri app.
Offer could also be low. We'll know when Apple announces the numbers. But yes, demand doesn't seem lower than previous years. Within 10 minutes, my carrier had thousands of reservations already.
No. Verizon simply did not reserve enough phones from Apple because they could not imagine anyone opting for iPhone on Verizon with their ridiculously slow 3G speeds. Who would want to use iPhone one Verizon these days?
Was this even necessary?
If you're in major urban areas:
Verizon = Slow and reliable
AT&T = Fast and unreliable (comparatively)
Aww, I might not even bother with pre-ordering this time around. Maybe I can get lucky enough and get it in-store.