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Apple's iPhone 5 Pre-order Shipping Estimates Slip to Two Weeks

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Got my pre-order in at 6:45am Central through AT&T and my confirmation says "Your order will arrive on 9/21/2012" and didn't say anything about availability. Anyone see anything other than that on their confirmation from AT&T?
 
froggiemlm said:
So glad i set an alarm for 2am CST and used the apple store App to order the new phone. took all of 90 seconds. after hearing about the website troubles last night seams like the App was the best route to go.
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Did the same as you however the last step of submitting my order created a spinning 'loading' thing that I let carry on for 45 minutes (on my iPhone) as I kept trying to order on my iPad also (plus over a laptop as well). I wish my order completed in 90 seconds.. took an hour of constant tries.

1) My AT&T 3G service sucks balls
2) Time Warner also is stingy with bandwidth and seems my area has less prioritization than other areas of the country.

It was feeling impossible to get through on any connection.

In the end after I finally got an order through it says expected ship date: 2 weeks. :/
 
Had to go through Apple at 5:00 EST. I guess my alarm just "forgot" to go off :( Looks like I'll be waiting 2 weeks...

Tried to go through ATT and ATTpremier and they both were hung up.
 
I can't believe all the fuss to buy a marginally improved product. Apple sure knows it's customers well!
 
DaveAlgonquin said:
I just ordered a 16GB white model from AT&T and got confirmation saying expected delivery 9/21.
Granted it has lots of disclaimers about potential delays but we'll see.

I tried to stay up but fell asleep. I can't believe the shipping slipped that quickly (I looked to order 6 hours after it went live). I think some of it could be marketing as there will be lots of iPhone 5 sold out in an hour stories this week that are ultimately good for the company. Who knows. I will be hoping for a 9/21 delivery, but again, who knows.
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I just saw that myself.

I have email timestamps of 3:52am and 3:58am and both had already slipped to 2 weeks at that point. What I want to know is: why did the Apple site say that there was a limit of 2 per customer, yet I was only allowed to check out one at a time? That was the reason that I got the 2 week ship time on both.

Since AT&T's site says 9/21 now, I wonder if maybe Apple put up the 2 week timeframe as sort of a failsafe when all the orders started rolling in? Perhaps my delivery date will change?

Wishful thinking, I know :)
 
UNMENINU said:
I think the new iPad was FedEx for me. I live in Brooklyn. Don't remember which for iPhone 4.

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Ordered 16GB White at about 5am this morning. And confirmed on the phone at about 830am. Confirmations says will deliver by Sept. 21st.
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Yeah I live in Brooklyn too so hopefully FedEx. Seems to be easier here in our building.
 
imlynxy said:
I think Apple shouldn't release their iDevices in the middle of the night. I don't want to take a plane today with a pilot or flight control dispatcher who woke up in the middle of the night to buy a new iToy.

I have nothing against Apple or their products, I use the a lot and this is only my thoughts.
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As its not the middle of the night everywhere. It's also going always be the middle of the night somewhere when they start selling it. So no matter what time on the clock the decide to open the flood gate your agreement can be made for some region. Thus being perpetually flawed
 
Narg said:
What? You haven't even seen the numbers yet. They might not even give numbers. It's a marketing game folks!

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Not any more nonsense than thinking they didn't do that? What do you know?
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More than you apparently. When a company knows they can sell a hugely demanded product, they are going to sell it. There's already enough hype for this stupid phone, and you have a master of operations and logistics in charge of the company. You're a fool if you think they are "shorting" supply. It's not good business practice. ESPECIALLY in the last week of a fiscal quarter when you want launch numbers to be as high as possible. Glad you're not running a business. Sheesh.

Source: Business 101
 
Hopefully orders accepted in the order in which they were received. My purchase finally went through at the exact cutover point for delivery, so hopefully the estimate was a failsafe for customer satisfaction. It would be grand for folks to get their phones release day or a day or 2 later and Apple would have saved face by forecasting a later delivery than actual delivery. If it's the other way around, then that's when consumers get mad and damn them all to hell. It's smart to spin it like this, if this is what Apple's intention is.
 
I ordered mine at 5:40 and it showed two weeks. I'm still willing to bet I get it by no later than the 24th. Apple's system always seems to play catch up and the next thing you know MacRumors will start posting updates like "iPhone 5 orders for two weeks out now showing to be delivered on the 21st". Not worried a bit about waiting the full two weeks. ;)
 
Be prepared to make your own coffee on September 21st. The baristas will be out in the street in line for the new phone.
 
iFiend said:
I just saw that myself.

I have email timestamps of 3:52am and 3:58am and both had already slipped to 2 weeks at that point. What I want to know is: why did the Apple site say that there was a limit of 2 per customer, yet I was only allowed to check out one at a time? That was the reason that I got the 2 week ship time on both.

Since AT&T's site says 9/21 now, I wonder if maybe Apple put up the 2 week timeframe as sort of a failsafe when all the orders started rolling in? Perhaps my delivery date will change?

Wishful thinking, I know :)
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Doubt it. My timestamp is 3:53 on the email and according to apple my order has processed witha delivery date of 10/5
 
AppleScruff1 said:
I can't believe all the fuss to buy a marginally improved product. Apple sure knows it's customers well!
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I know you're trolling, but for those of us who upgrade once every two years, the iPhone 5 is a solid improvement over the iPhone 4. The 4S wasn't worth an early upgrade to me over the 4, and I expect the 5 isn't a slam-dunk upgrade for those who have a 4S. But jumping two generations ahead yields a great improvement in speed and iOS capabilities.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
I can't believe all the fuss to buy a marginally improved product. Apple sure knows it's customers well!
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1) all cell phones are marginally improved products these days
2) the improvements here are probably the biggest or second (to the 3GS --> i4) in the iPhone's history
3) many people are upgrading from something older than a 4s, which makes the improvements very large indeed
4) stop trolling.
 
iFiend said:
Since AT&T's site says 9/21 now, I wonder if maybe Apple put up the 2 week timeframe as sort of a failsafe when all the orders started rolling in? Perhaps my delivery date will change?
Wishful thinking, I know :)
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This is definitely possible. Delivery date sometimes changes for the better after you've ordered.
 
hismikeness said:
I got the "Your phone is reserved email" at 12:30PDT... once I go back and order, will I be in the first wave or will I slip to 2 weeks shipping? Hopefully I don't slip, that would suck.
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My second iP5 for wife got that email and went back this morning, it said 2 weeks...went to ATT and order the same one and it will arrive (finger cross) on the 21st...mine is fine using apple right around 12:15am this morning and will arrive on the 21st =)
 
AppleScruff1 said:
I can't believe all the fuss to buy a marginally improved product. Apple sure knows it's customers well!
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Right, it's not like Samsung doesn't marginally update its phone seemingly every 4 months. If you have an iPhone 3GS or 4, the iPhone 5 is not a marginally improved product. That's the majority of upgraders. Sorry, Mr. Sour Puss.
 
I ended up getting pissed at the ATT site and just ordered through apple with the 2 week ship time.

ATT seems to work just fine this morning - however it looks like it's already taken my upgrade pricing away.

If I canceled my order through Apple and hoped on the 9/21 ATT time - what are the chances my upgrade pricing would reflect without incident?

I'm guessing 0% - anyone had luck doing this?
 
ActionJax said:
I know you're trolling, but for those of us who upgrade once every two years, the iPhone 5 is a solid improvement over the iPhone 4. The 4S wasn't worth an early upgrade to me over the 4, and I expect the 5 isn't a slam-dunk upgrade for those who have a 4S. But jumping two generations ahead yields a great improvement in speed and iOS capabilities.
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Or, in case of my wife, her 4 got stolen a few weeks ago so she is now back on her old 3G. Understandably, she is dying to get the 5 asap, and I'm so glad I was up at 3:00AM EST and got one for her to be delivered on 9/21.
 
Does anyone know whether we can upgrade from an unlimited AT&T line and how that will affect our current data since this new phone has LTE?
 
ATT site for me is now unresponsive. Can't get passed upgrade line page now, or even when I was at the point of having everything set at the point of charging for what appeared to be correct in the cart, it crashed. It's pretty cool that Apple generates so much interest that it crashes AT&T's site.
 
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