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'Incredible' Response to iPhone 6 and 6 Plus as Apple Sets Overnight Pre-Order Sales Record
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1. Why order through your carrier when the real company has the same thing?
2. http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/w...u-use-our-printable-cutouts-find-out-0157311/
3. I woke up at 3am EST, went back to sleep at 3:30. Randomly woke up at 6am, used the Apple Store app on my iPhone for 6 gray regular size, 64gb. Shipping to my local store on Friday.(I don't have a way to sign for home deliveries.)
2. http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/w...u-use-our-printable-cutouts-find-out-0157311/
3. I woke up at 3am EST, went back to sleep at 3:30. Randomly woke up at 6am, used the Apple Store app on my iPhone for 6 gray regular size, 64gb. Shipping to my local store on Friday.(I don't have a way to sign for home deliveries.)
Hopefully good for my Apple stock. I got my 128 GB iPhone 6 pre-ordered from AT&T (premier customer, renewed a 2 year contract) at around 8am ET with no hassle. I hear some other people had problems.
I went through the agony, then found myself told that I'd have to pay $549 for the phone if I wanted to continued by grandfathered "Unlimited" or buy one of the crappy data plans of AT&T Next. Searched in vain for why I couldn't just renew. The Apple site told me: I'm eligible for a "Normal" upgrade on October 8. So I have to twiddle my thumbs.
Repeaditly kept trying to preorder from 12:01 onward and just couldn't get on no matter what I tried. I was basically throwing my credit card at my computer screen until 1AM when I gave up and decided to just keep our 5s and 5c for now. Maybe I'll look into one for Christmas but I'm pretty disappointed in Apple's inability to get their preorders together. First the live stream and now this...I understand the sheer volume of people trying to order but they should've anticipated this times two. Frustrated long time customer.
Ok. Im part of these pre order numbers(bought 3 of 6+), but what the hell is wrong with these samsung haters?
Dont you remember the days when idiotic isheep were chanting "big phones for n00bs. Too big for one hand."?
I gotta say im part of casual apple lovers. But some of these ignorant bashing comments just give me facepalm.
Dont you remember the days when idiotic isheep were chanting "big phones for n00bs. Too big for one hand."?
I gotta say im part of casual apple lovers. But some of these ignorant bashing comments just give me facepalm.
Interesting, but I don't get it. It wasn't a time of day thing (all start at midnight), it was 'nothing was supposed to be running before 12:01 PDT/1:01 MDT/2:01 CDT/3:01 EDT'. That's all the same second. Doesn't matter where you were virtually in the country. Perhaps one site (ATT) just was up early.
Okay, you go and tell the people that were posting saying "it worked! My order went through at x:xx on the website", then. I saw the posts with my own eyes but I guess according to you they were lying.
Amazing that people can wait 1-2 years for a new iPhone. But make them wait 1-3 weeks for delivery and they become unhinged. XD
And as always, I'm sure there's still some people who are disappointed with the size of the iPhone 6+, who will still call it small.
I ordered 3 phones from the carrier as late as 10 hours after the preorder opened. The same phones that said 3 - 4 weeks shipping have delivery date oif 9/19.
Additionally, if you want to pay using Verizon Edge, you must use the carriers site.
I think you are right jmf5123. I called Apple again and the guy said they were having glitches where reservation emails were being sent out that did not need to go out. He said, "your iPhone 6 will be delivered on September 19th!
Hope yours is the same...
Does anyone know where i can preorder/buy an off contract 4.7"??? I only saw one for T-Mobile, and i want a CDMA one... Do they usually make that an option at some point?
Based on past experiences, on release day you can go into the stores and buy the Verizon model at full price - they just didn't do it for pre-order.
Return it? That would be pretty stupid. You can probably put the 6+ on eBay for twice of what it costed you considering that in a week or two shipping time on the bigger iPhone will pushed into 8-10 weeks territory.
I can understand it. Being the first kid on the block with a new toy can be fun, and it doesn't last long. When you only get that opportunity once every 2 years (S releases don't count, nowhere near as exciting as a redesign) and you stay up at ungodly hours to make it happen, but it's ruined by circumstances out of your control, it can be frustrating. It's a first world problem, but we are living in a first world so...
One of my (since cancelled) iterations last night was to order the AT&T version from the App Store. It let me take the Next pricing (basically 0% financing for 18 months), but my voice and data plan stayed the same. The only reason I cancelled was that I was able to get the T-Mobile non-contract one online from Apple.
Crazy delivery date!
I did get my iPhone 6 plus ordered through ATT at about 1:30 am MST this morning and am stunned to see that the delivery is 10/31-11;11/14! I would have been better off waiting a month after today and walking in a store and buying like I did my 5c. I understand supply and demand but over a month is beyond ridiculous!
I did get my iPhone 6 plus ordered through ATT at about 1:30 am MST this morning and am stunned to see that the delivery is 10/31-11;11/14! I would have been better off waiting a month after today and walking in a store and buying like I did my 5c. I understand supply and demand but over a month is beyond ridiculous!
It would be awesome if I could actually order the phone without the websites crapping out... 6 generations of this phone and the demand gets bigger and bigger... Dont understand why the carriers cant beef up their websites and ordering systems to handle the traffic.
It actually upsets me quite a bit that this problem hasn't been hashed out.
It actually upsets me quite a bit that this problem hasn't been hashed out.
I should clarify: that's for my spouse and me. I ditched my unlimited data the other day in preparation for this, and got a Mobile Share plan of $130/month (with 10GB data -- we never use more the 8 combined). So the breakdown came to this:
AT&T 2-year contract on October 21 (when our contract expires); shipping time TBD:
$399 per phone = $798
$130 per month for 2 years = $3,120
TOTAL: $3,918
AT&T Next; ships in 34 weeks:
$849 per phone = $1,698
$130 per month for 2 years = $3,120
TOTAL: $4,818
That's a $900 difference, which I was willing to do until Apple's website wouldn't load. If I ordered now, I wouldn't get the phone until around the time my contract expires, so why not wait and save the money. That pushes the phone out further, of course.
I had never tried to pre-order the iPhone when it went live, and I will never attempt to do so again because it led to frustration and disappointment.
I used the sizing pdf and cut out thick cardboard models to hold in my hand. the 5.5 really didn't seem all that big. That's what sold me. We'll see what it's like when I have the real product in my hand.
Uh, yeah
OK, stop right there since you have no idea of what you are talking about.
1) Screens are not cut from one phone model to the other (same pixel density does not mean same screen)
2) The screens are shipped to the assembly plant from other locales / countries
3) The iPhone 6 screens use a different sub pixel implementation (and backlighting)
Please refrain from making uneducated guesses.
OK, stop right there since you have no idea of what you are talking about.
1) Screens are not cut from one phone model to the other (same pixel density does not mean same screen)
2) The screens are shipped to the assembly plant from other locales / countries
3) The iPhone 6 screens use a different sub pixel implementation (and backlighting)
Please refrain from making uneducated guesses.
Interesting. Friends of mine on EDT time couldn't purchase from AT&T until 3AM EDT.
How many gigawatts did you use?
Yup especially after apple customers have been told that phablets are too big and can't be used one handed and that the perfect size was 3.5 and then 4 inches. I actually find it a bit hypocritcal how apple and fanboys kept saying android phones were too big and now they are going nuts for the plus. Guess sorta of the same thing with smaller tablets when the iPad air came. But whatever it's good to have choice and apple is listening to peoples demand. I just wish they would have went with 5 and 5.5inch. 5 inches is a nice size for a phone.
Bought my dad the 4.7 I think 5.5 would freak him out a little to much coming from a 3.5 iphone 4.
Because some carriers had them with 9/19 delivery dates while Apple's site said 3 - 4 weeks (or more).
But, by all means, please keep going straight to Apple for your preorders. It means fewer supply constraints for those of us who use our carrier.
I failed to mention this
Dont use the advertised link for upgrade from your carrier.....for ATT it was www.att.com/Iphone6
Use the normal website to login to your account and perform an upgrade that way. ATT for the last 2 years has always put the phones up earlier then midnight.... it worked this year and last year