I never waited before. Then I waited for the SE because I have a 6S Plus and when you've laid out the dough for a phone like that, suddenly declaring to your spouse that you're sick of lugging this huge slab around as your daily driver and want to get an itty bitty phone of the same design you gave up two years ago seems weird. It took
courage to decide to do that.
Then I dug up even more
courage and decided I wanted a phablet after all but I wanted a pen to go with it. My hubby caught my enthusiasm and joined me in preordering a Note 7 during AT&T's BOGO deal. We got a lot of goodies and are still raking in discounts and freebies from Samsung. And we did love the Note 7. If not for the recall, that purchase would have been a rousing success. But...there was a recall and lots of ensuing uncertainty. So...
Apple releases its iPhones. And lo and behold during a keynote declares that one key feature for the iPhone 7 Plus won't be ready for awhile. Why the bleep not? They've had a year to work on this and they didn't do a complete redesign of the phone so why are they not ready with this? The Galaxy S7 I have in hand now can do the bokeh trick on not just faces but objects already. It's not like Apple to release something with a major selling point so incomplete. Apple Watch was like that though. Hmm...initiating caution mode.
Then there are the links posted in Android forum to articles stating the iPhone release is going to be slowed by a problem with faulty components and links stating that Samsung supplied batteries for the iPhone 7's as well. They're speculating over on those forums. Idle gossip? Who knows.
As a Note 7 owner I'm not pre-ordering a blessed thing again, from anybody, anytime soon. There's always a "-gate" of some sort. I'm tired of being a Guinea pig. Besides I've played with enough new phones this year.