AT&T Prepping Store Displays for Next-Generation iPhone?

[MacRumors]

Boy Genius Report claims to have received word that AT&T is preparing to roll out large in-store displays for a new product, presumed to be the next-generation iPhone.

According to them, AT&T has started to send engineers out to corporate store locations to try and plan / start setting up a "new kind of display." We're told that this is most likely a new iPhone display as there isn't anything else that's dedicated to a single device that would require the resources this display will.

Boy Genius Report has long kept its ear to the ground for rumors coming out of AT&T and other wireless carriers and has in the past reported blocks on AT&T employee vacations during iPhone launch windows and reported just last week that the carrier had confirmed to its employees that the next iPhone will be launching in June.

Article Link: AT&T Prepping Store Displays for Next-Generation iPhone?

 

[Caliber26]

Oddly enough, I hate AT&T corporate stores. I even work for them (on the landline/commercial side) and I still loathe the idea of setting foot into one of their stores. I'll be getting mine from the Apple store at the mall.

 

[jamone13]

While I don't like any cell phone stores, AT&T isn't as bad as the Verizon stores in my neck of the woods. I've seen people physically thrown from a Verizon store on multiple occasions (multiple stores no less) when they asked why the staff keeps skipping them and servicing the next person in line.

 

[kockgunner]

While I don't like any cell phone stores, AT&T isn't as bad as the Verizon stores in my neck of the woods. I've seen people physically thrown from a Verizon store on multiple occasions (multiple stores no less) when they asked why the staff keeps skipping them and servicing the next person in line.

Why do they do that?

 

[Doctor Q]

One of the employees at an AT&T store near me was very helpful when I phoned to ask about the in-store activation procedures, and again when I visited the store in person. As in Apple Stores, you sometimes find just the right employee with the answers you want.

 

[spazzcat]

All I know is my iPhone 3G is super slow and have money in hand for a new iPhone!

 

[goobot]

im gong to att so i can get my phone for 200

 

[tbobmccoy]

At launch day for the 3G, my AT&T store only had 16 handsets and made over 50+ people waiting in line wait without any idea how many they had in stock. I don't trust them at all to have enough to meet demand.

 

[AKlrt]

Os 4.0

Anyone heard anything about a Beta 5 for OS 4 yet? Its Tuesday!!

 

[alexhasfun28]

Boy, what happened to all those Verizon-iPhone rumors?


Oh yeah, that's the analyst's job to keep them on track!

 

[alexhasfun28]

Verizon stores are BORING!

all you see is black & red. And the geekiest Verizon fan boys that you've ever seen. Heck, they're geekier than Apple's own Apple Store employees!

 

[crisss1205]

iPhone + iPad 3G ?

Or

iPhone + iPad 3G + iPod touch 3G?

 

[RawBert]

New displays.

 

[thatisme]

New displays.

http://www.iphonefaq.org/images/archives/windowsiphone.jpg

only thing better would have been a BSOD!

 

[JayLaw23]

At launch day for the 3G, my AT&T store only had 16 handsets and made over 50+ people waiting in line wait without any idea how many they had in stock. I don't trust them at all to have enough to meet demand.

Wow thats crazy because my ATT store had over 250 iphones, and they did a great job on helping me out. even though it was 312 people in line for the 3g.

 

[ihaveNFC]

At launch day for the 3G, my AT&T store only had 16 handsets and made over 50+ people waiting in line wait without any idea how many they had in stock. I don't trust them at all to have enough to meet demand.

Did the customers forget they could have bought the phone at an Apple store?

 

[zacharace]

All I know is my iPhone 3G is super slow and have money in hand for a new iPhone!

Same here! Can't wait!

I think, based on Boy Genius's previously-reported AT&T vacation block especially, and now this, that the 4G has to be coming out in a few weeks.

 

[tbobmccoy]

Did the customers forget they could have bought the phone at an Apple store?

the reason I was there was because the lines were much smaller than our huge Apple store in Austin, and I thought it would have been shorter to get through. They didn't tell us they only had 16 phones until they were all gone and then offered us to order one for a week or so later.

 

[elgrecomac]

I'm willing to bet...

You'll be able to buy the iphone via Apple.com so you can avoid the bullsheet lines at both the Apple and ATT stores. I guess if you want to have chance to be seen on your local News broadcast, then you go to the stores. I like the idea of a Fed Ex truck pulling up to my house with the phone on the 1st day of availability.

Actually, I am more interested in seeing the HTC EVO which, from all indications, is now the state of the art in mobile phone technology. With tethering and hot-spot capabilities, removable storage and a larger screen...if they addressed the battery life issue, then this is a compelling reason to avoid Apple's phone all together.

 

[Rajani Isa]

Oddly enough, I hate AT&T corporate stores. I even work for them (on the landline/commercial side) and I still loathe the idea of setting foot into one of their stores. I'll be getting mine from the Apple store at the mall.

Lucky you.

For me to go to an Apple Store, I'd have a 3 hour car trip.

Then of course, there is the trip back...