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Confirmation of June 9th 3G iPhone Launch?

While I'm really glad that Apple's finally going to update the iPhone, I'm not going to be upgrading my current iPhone just yet. Quite excited to see what changes they make in addition to 3G, GPS, and whatnot though.

However...I just hope that the whole WWDC keynote is not all about the updated iPhone. This is what I've been worrying about. I really want to see some other upgrades to the current lineup, or if we're lucky, some new products. Hopefully this new iPhone doesn't steal the whole show, and leaves room for the Macs. :)
 
Santa Rosa said:
So your current iPhone which you have paid in full for breaks down or gets stolen. Sorry, your going to have to get a new contract out to get a new one. Just doesn't work like that. I see where you are coming from with your argument, but looking at it like that it seems you could just get the new 3G iPhone and carry on with your contract after a soft activation.
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In your first bit of your post to be a smartass , you failed.

The fact is, his idea is right. I know this because it happened with me. I had to swap my iphone out for a new one, and when I did, my 2-year contract started over from that day I activated my new one. Yes, I used the same SIM card.

This is why I think that if you were to get a new 3G iPhone, your contract would not be terminated really, just be started over from that day of activation. It makes sense.
 
I hope they sell it on pay as you go and on contract, too, then it can be like all other phones, free on contract and £200 on pay as you go, or Apple may sell it unlocked if the carriers give it for a reduced price or for free.
 
ImNoSuperMan said:
Still it`s hard to believe how the hell did Apple screw up this bad. iPhone 3G after June 9th???? That means more than a month of zero iphone sales. They have never done something like this with any of their other products. I still cant digest it....:confused:
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Sean Dempsey said:
Ummm.... have you ever been to these forums when a new product is released and people just bought the older model a few weeks/days previous?

It's like Apple can't please you fanboys. They sell an old product right up to the DAY of a major update without warning, and you all get the torches and pitchforks demanding refunds and saying how it's "unfair" apple sold you the old model when a new one was just hours away.

So now, they drain their stock of an obsolete iPhone so they can't sell any just weeks/days before a TOTALLY new model comes out, and you cry again? They try to prevent people from buying iPhone1 when just around the corner iPhone2 will be out for the same or lower price, and you're confused?

Sounds like this forum needs a spray to the crotch of "sandy-vag-be-gone."
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You missed the point of my post. Here read it again -

ImNoSuperMan said:
Still it`s hard to believe how the hell did Apple screw up this bad. iPhone 3G after June 9th???? That means more than a month of zero iphone sales. They have never done something like this with any of their other products. I still cant digest it....:confused:
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That was the point. Apple has never done anything like this before. I m confused if this was intentional or a screw up. Hard to believe it was intentional. A couple of weeks might have been understandable but this is more than a month. I was hoping new iPhone to be released last tuesday or atleast this tuesday. But now it seems we`ll be waiting 3 more weeks before any sign of iPhone.

And BTW any fanboy who buys an apple product which is anticipated to be refreshed very soon DOES NOT deserve to be called Apple Fanboy. :eek:
 
fuzzielitlpanda said:
wahoo i posted this on april 28th! anyways, the news doesn't really affect me since i don't and probably won't be owning an iphone anytime soon.
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Gee my AT&T rep still says May, wonder if he's referring or confusing the release of the BB9000 3G model thats coming out.

I like the 200 dollars off deal with AT&T, yea you have to do the 2 yr or you could do the pay as you go which a co-worker is doing right now and it works for him
 
ImNoSuperMan said:
You missed the point of my post. Here read it again -

That was the point. Apple has never done anything like this before.
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This has been mentioned before...iMac G4 -> G5 Summer 2004. You must have a short memory...

ImNoSuperMan said:
And BTW any fanboy who buys an apple product which is anticipated to be refreshed very soon DOES NOT deserve to be called Apple Fanboy. :eek:
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If you can't remember the great summer-of-no-imacs, then you ain't no fanboy either :rolleyes:
 
tallyho said:
This has been mentioned before...iMac G4 -> G5 Summer 2004. You must have a short memory...


If you can't remember the great summer-of-no-imacs, then you ain't no fanboy either :rolleyes:
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Served!!!

The Great Summer Of No Imacs: Thats brilliant, conjures up images of people sunbathing, eating ice creams all with an expression of confusion as to where all the iMacs have gone to :)
 
tallyho said:
This has been mentioned before...iMac G4 -> G5 Summer 2004. You must have a short memory...
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Wow your comparing imacs from 4 years ago to today's iphones. Today's iPhones are selling much more than imacs from 4 years ago. Apple is losing a lot of money and iphone sales that Apple would have generated if they hadn't intentionally caused this shortage. That said, Apple is building up hype for the 2nd gen iPhone, and I think they will make up what they had lost for the month of May shortly after the new iPhone is launched
 
xSeanZx said:
In your first bit of your post to be a smartass , you failed.

The fact is, his idea is right. I know this because it happened with me. I had to swap my iphone out for a new one, and when I did, my 2-year contract started over from that day I activated my new one. Yes, I used the same SIM card.
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ummm...no.

I had mine replaced back in November. It still says contract ends on 6/29/2009.

Thanks for playing though.
 
I have noticed there have been no statement retractions since the story broke yesterday! The more time that passes without a retraction the more we can put a small amount of stock in it IMHO.
 
Perhaps the 3G iPhone is being hyped even more than the original was. At the cost of poorer battery life, a thicker bezel, and other features, I think the 3G iPhone might not have the same appeal. It will be interesting to see what they have developed for the 2nd generation iPhone.
 
Humm, ok, new iPhone coming in June...

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Where would you guys go if you wanted to sell a barely used 32Gb iPod Touch?

I never sold anything online so if you can give me some pointers I'd be very much appreciated :)

Anyway, moaners and whiners spent the last year complaining about what the iPhone "doesn't have" and putting it down compared to their "Nokias". My opinion is: they missed the point.

Look at it this way, it only took Apple one phone to shake the industry more than Nokia ever shook in 20 years of making cellphones. IMO The first iPhone was a market test. It's the new version that will surely cause some serious competition.
 
Nym:
I'd go with Craiglist and stay away from Ebay. Obviously this is just my opinion but I have had horrible Ebay experiences and good craigslist ones.
 
"Apple hasn't lost any sales really"...well actually they have. i work with teens and i can tell you the number that are getting new phones for graduation = A LOT. had apple planned on releasing the 3G iphone say, early May, they would have cleaned up. this isn't the wii where folks are simply waiting for that exact product. parents aren't sold on or can't find the iphone, so they go buy a smartphone. can you imagine the sales if during the last month of school the big buzz around the hallways was everybody's new iphone?? astronomical!!!

this was not smart buildup. no iphones to sell is no iphones to sell. while there are those, ahem, who are waiting for the iphone such that their treo700 can get thrown against a brick wall, not everybody is fully sold on the superiority of apple products (for the most part).

and let's look at apple's history...they've only goofed when ego affected product development or ego affected business direction, otherwise they are amazing. i love them to death, but that doesn't mean they do everything right. this one was a goof, i have to think even apple thinks so...maybe they just couldn't get it all rolling in time, for circumstances beyond their control.
 
Nym said:
Humm, ok, new iPhone coming in June...

Off Topic
Where would you guys go if you wanted to sell a barely used 32Gb iPod Touch?

I never sold anything online so if you can give me some pointers I'd be very much appreciated :)
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Use ebay, and set buyer restrictions such as: Buy it now must be paid for immediately, require all bidders to have a paypal account attached to the account, and require bidders to be in one of the countries you mark that you ship to. Other than the bidding restrictions mentioned, also make sure to only ship to COMFIRMED paypal addresses (the email you get when the buyer pays will tell you if the address is confirmed or not. If it is not confirmed there is a chance this person was able to get access to someone else's paypal account and put their own address in there.)

The bad parts of selling electronics on ebay are the scammers that try to fool you into thinking they have paid and trying to get you to ship to nigeria. Those 3 buyer restrictions (which are simple checkboxes on the sell item page) weed out 99% of ebay scammers.

Craigslist on the other hand can be very sketchy. You never know who you could be dealing with, and while the same can be said for ebay, craigslist transactions usually end up with some face to face exchange, and there's just too much that can go wrong in a situation like that. Plus there's no buyer or seller protection, no 3rd party (such as paypal and ebay) logging the transaction. It's just less safe all around.
 
I personally thought it may have been released early. It's just strange that Apple would go for so long being out of stock of iPhones.
 
earnjam said:
ummm...no.

I had mine replaced back in November. It still says contract ends on 6/29/2009.

Thanks for playing though.
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i just got off the phone with at&t (small business so i don't know if that effects anything).

i lost my iPhone 3 weeks ago in a bar fight and had to call at&t and suspend the number. (too bad the "wipe feature" wasn't installed from the beginning) i asked the rep then if i would have to restart a contract when i purchased my new iPhone. he said no, and to go through normal activation through itunes, then call small business back and have them update the sim card info over the phone.

i found about the new iPhone and decided to wait and see (3 weeks without an iPhone has been torture) what and when they would be coming out. (3 more weeks of torture?)

i decided to call back today to make sure the info i received before was accurate. once i again i was informed to activate and phone in itunes, call the sim info in and my contract would just continue as before- no new or restart.

if you have an older iphone that you are thinking of selling, you might want to call and report it lost or stolen first- just an idea
 
GutBomb said:
This kind of screws the person you sell the phone to. AT&T deactivates phones that it thinks are lost or stolen.
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i doubt that- they cancel the service- the person can activate on itunes with a new at&t sim or the sim out of their old at&t phone. i guarantee the person with my phone is using it now. i even called and left messages on the phone for two days offering them a 100 dollar reward to return it before i suspended the service.

at&t isn't capable of bricking the phone nor would they want to, they acquire another two year contract.
 
txr0ckabilly said:
i doubt that- they cancel the service- the person can activate on itunes with a new at&t sim or the sim out of their old at&t phone. i guarantee the person with my phone is using it now. i even called and left messages on the phone for two days offering them a 100 dollar reward to return it before i suspended the service.

at&t isn't capable of bricking the phone nor would they want to, they acquire another two year contract.
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i should imagine they disable the phone (by reference to its IMEI) rather than merely disable the SIM.
 
sananda said:
i should imagine they disable the phone (by reference to its IMEI) rather than merely disable the SIM.
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Yeah this is how they manage all stolen or lost phones, iphones or not. By disable i mean blacklist the IMEI on their network so if the phone pops up AT&T's network they refuse to provide service.
 
tallyho said:
This has been mentioned before...iMac G4 -> G5 Summer 2004. You must have a short memory...
If you can't remember the great summer-of-no-imacs, then you ain't no fanboy either :rolleyes:
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Unfortunately I bought my first Mac in late 2005. Before that all I knew bout Macs was the colorful translucent iMacs(or eMacs was it?) and the apple shaped notebooks with an upside down apple logo. But in any case thanks for increasing my knowledge bout Macs.

Also as another poster pointed out iPhone is way bigger than iMac ever was or could ever be.

But now I think I`ve realized why Apple has discontinued manufacturing the current iPhones. I was really stupid not to understand this earlier. They are launching 3G iPhone worldwide simultaneously(may be with a difference of 2-4 weeks in launch dates). So they are going to need lots an lots of iPhone for these launches. Quite possibly 3G iPhone will be offered unlocked too. And in any case the demand for 2G iPhone never really exceeded the supply coz of it being locked and available in only a few markets.

Now Apple is really confident bout the 3G iPhone demands. They think it`s demand will easily exceed the supply. So they are just producing as many 3G iPhones as they can before the launch hoping they`ll easily sell out. So in a way Apple is not losing any sale et al. They`d be in a losing situation if they had to rest the chinese factories during this period. But in complete contrast the Chinese factories might be working overtime with the 3G iPhones. So in the end Apple will still sell as many iPhones as they were able to produce. So nothing lost there. Also as the added bonus their will be no returns of old iPhones after the 3G launch and the unavailability is also helping fuel the 3G iPhone hype. I have to admit no matter where Apple stands as a company it`s the best as far as marketing goes.
 
ilflyya said:
Hmm, lessons learned from previous releases...I think I'll be waiting until my Verizon contract is over before buying an 3G iPhone. I think by December, all the bugs will be worked out, and who knows, by then there may be an even bigger capacity iPhone! There's no prize for adopting early! I make fun of everyone that waited in line for the 4 gig iPhone, as well as those who can't do simple product research to know when the next model is coming out!

I'm not really mean, I just don't tolerate stupidity! :)
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I agree with you in theory. There are a few particular features that would propt me to buy now as opposed to the next minor hardware upgrade. For example, if the capacities are the same as they are now, i will wait. If they come out with a 32gb model now, it's on!
 
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