I was up and ready when preorders started... but since Apple couldn't communicate with Sprints servers, it took almost 2 hours to get an order through... which put me at Dec 11-18. The next morning, I saw I had a reservation, so I cancelled my order (figured I had nothing to lose since orders were still at 5-6 weeks out)... but the reservation wouldn't let me order with the 2 year contract price of $769 for the 256gb. I would've had to pay full price instead...I called customer support, and 2 hours later was told it would take 24 hours for the reservation system to acknowledge I could get the 2 year contract... but being that I only had 24 hours to complete the reservation, I figured it wasn't worth risking getting pushed further back, so I went ahead and reordered without the reservation (I could place an order with the 2 year contract, just couldn't get it with the reservation)... so I'm back to Dec 11-18.