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Apple Shooting for iPhone 5 Pre-Orders on September 30th with October 7th Launch?
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Same here. but i remember last year was a real headache ordering through AT&T's website
I love how locked down everything is this year. We have some speculations, but for the most part, nobody knows what iPhone 5 will look like (of if it is even iPhone 5)... I bet Steve put the fear of god into everyone involved to prevent what happened last year...
when the iphone 4 was first released last summer it could be pre-ordered from an at&t store, apple.com or at&t.com (though we all know they had server crash issues.) when the iphone 4 came out for verizon in February, it could only be pre-ordered on apple.com or verizonwireless.com. if i had to guess i would say it could be ordered from both carriers stores and websites along with apple.com and the apple store. dont quote me though.
Mine too. I guess we were lucky since I remember reading here that lots of people did have problems.
im begging you 
.... please dont mess with the dimensions of the home button.. if its not broke, dont fix it
.... please dont mess with the dimensions of the home button.. if its not broke, dont fix it
The iPad 2 needed a new os version which pushed back ios5 which pushed back the iPhone 5.
+1
i hope there is a cheap as in around $50 T-Mo version with dual cameras for skype calling. tried to find an android phone for my mom for skype but it horrendous. skype refuses to support some phones for no reason, tegra 2 phone just don't work with skype, etc
I took mine to the local Apple Store and walked around with it, also passing the poor souls camping out in line over 12 hours before it went on sale.
yeah you guys were lucky.
after my order went through i was nervous for 3 days because UPS had no tracking information for my order. I finallyreceived a tracking email from them after they delivered my phone LOL
I took mine to the local Apple Store and walked around with it, also passing the poor souls camping out in line over 12 hours before it went on sale.
I had to go in to do a SIM swap since I was passing my 3GS to my son. It was funny to see the faces of the AT&T reps when I walked in with it!
The team who makes the OS aren't the same ones who make the hardware. One has little to do with the other, since they previewed iOS 5 in June already.
Seems unlikely to me. They should of incorporated the iPad into their iOS workflow and timeline by now. They were able to bring iOS 4 to the iPad and the iPhone in September last year, so whats different this year?
Except for the fact that there is no way they would launch iPhone 5 without iOS 5.
I don't think iOS is really what held-up the launch, but hardware and software are very dependent on each other when considering a launch timeline.
I am still hoping for a Sprint version... I don't want another Android nor do I want a Blackberry... so, WP7 might be the way I will go if Apple ignores Sprint again... there are no other alternatives. Sprint barely has anything that's not Android. Right now, besides Android, there are a couple of Blackberries, the old Palm Pixi (can't believe this one), and 1 WP7 phone...
Maybe I could go back to a feature phone and get a 4G modem for iPod touch...
Maybe I could go back to a feature phone and get a 4G modem for iPod touch...
Not 100% sure, but I think the pre-orders were only available on non-contract devices last time around.
I was still in my 2 year contract and was eligible for the "early upgrade" that AT&T offers.
Can someone Enhance that pic? The top portion definitely looks smaller, suggesting a screen size change. I don't really understand the idea of the elongated home button though. Is it hard to press now for some? Maybe it will be tough sensitive and support a horizontal swipe?