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iPhone 3G S Launch

Getting impatient...okay, I've been impatient since ordering on June 8. My iPhone is still in Kentucky. Yes, the technology exists to get the thing here, pronto. But assuming the phone is indeed still there, and not yet en route to California (UPS has been very cryptic with the posting and subsequent removal of certain pieces of tracking info), can I rest assured that it will be in my hands sometime tomorrow? Or is that still up in the air? It would be unfortunate for Apple to have UPS hold the phones to preclude early deliver, only to have the phones arrive late!

UPDATE: Just called UPS and was assured by the representative that my package would be delivered tomorrow by 10:30am. "Barring customs issues," he added.
 
I didn't realize that AT&T was involved in boxing and packaging cell phones. I thought the cell phone manufacturers mailed the phones directly to the retail stores. This seems like an extra overhead cost of a distribution center that is unnecessary.

Update: Oh wait, I guess this is for the orders that people have bought from the website and that are being shipped to people's houses. That makes more sense. :)
 
iphones4evry1 said:
I didn't realize that AT&T was involved in boxing and packaging cell phones. I thought the cell phone manufacturers mailed the phones directly to the retail stores. This seems like an extra overhead cost of a distribution center that is unnecessary.

Update: Oh wait, I guess this is for the orders that people have bought from the website and that are being shipped to people's houses. That makes more sense. :)
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It looks like they are taking boxes packed with 10 iPhones each (I guess from the plant or Apple distributor) and breaking them open, scanning each phone, and then yeah, probably shipping them off individually.
 
why do people even bother waiting in the lines when they can just order it through apple.com and have it same day? it seems kind of silly to me:p
 
There is no bigger Apple/iPhone fanatic than me, but I was happy to pre-order and wait for my package to arrive tomorrow vs. braving the wait again.The 3g launch last year was more 'hassle' than 'event'.

Nothing can ever compare to the original iPhone release; I waited in line for 18 hours - yet it was one of my most favorite days. Great people, an amazing 'event', so many stories and interviews, and just a great vibe in the air. Couple all that with the fact that we left the store with the FIRST true touch device ever, and it is a day I'll never forget.

I think Apple will create similar energy again next year, with a radically new '4g' phone on Verizon/AT&T and T-Mobile. Until then, I anxiously await Fedex' arrival tomorrow. I'll be 'working' from home.
 
Oakbrook Center IL location

Note: The Apple store location at Oakbrook is opening at 5am not the 7am that the rest of the country is following. True!
 
I finally got my email from AT&T saying my order shipped. They are shipping all of them overnight. It is shipping from Tennessee.
 
modit said:
How does that work? I'm gussing no one has ever done it for free ;)
Really though...how?
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What do you mean "for free"?


Its when one line in a family plan is up, and you'd like to upgrade another phone with that line upgrade....and AT&T has to do it with there software. Only you can only do that at an AT&T store. I planned to pre-order it with AT&T, but when I get there they basically said, it wasn't gonna be any good for launch day(not sure how true that is, but we'll see)
 
i saw that pick and it reminded me of the great 5 hours i spent waiting in that exact spot, me and oakbrook mall had some good times then.
 
walnuts said:
The way I figure it is that you either don't have a job and therefore can't afford an iphone/service plan, or you have a pretty good job to be able to pay for all that, in which case you would be at work today and not camping out in the rain all day...who are these people who have money and nothing to do on a Thursday?
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Children of those rich that have the money but live off the folks.
 
Tokyo?

Lines are already forming in Tokyo? For what??? Reservations, I guess?

The iPhone doesn't go on sale here until the 26th and I just checked... That's nationwide. The only early opening reported is the Shinjuku store in Tokyo that opens at 7:00 AM on the 26th.
 
db44 said:
Got a call from a live human at my apple store (soho) to confirm my reservation. She said there's a separate line for customers with reservations. So, maybe no hassle tomorrow.
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Hmm, good to know. I am hitting the 5th Ave store (damn I'm dumb) and I hope they have 2 lines as well.

LiamNYC said:
Does anyone know if the 5th Ave store will also have 2 lines - one for those who pre-ordered, and another for those who just show up?
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I sure hope so, I'll be there bright and early. :)
 
Sport73 said:
There is no bigger Apple/iPhone fanatic than me, but I was happy to pre-order and wait for my package to arrive tomorrow vs. braving the wait again.The 3g launch last year was more 'hassle' than 'event'.

Nothing can ever compare to the original iPhone release; I waited in line for 18 hours - yet it was one of my most favorite days. Great people, an amazing 'event', so many stories and interviews, and just a great vibe in the air. Couple all that with the fact that we left the store with the FIRST true touch device ever, and it is a day I'll never forget.

I think Apple will create similar energy again next year, with a radically new '4g' phone on Verizon/AT&T and T-Mobile. Until then, I anxiously await Fedex' arrival tomorrow. I'll be 'working' from home.
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Agreed. I enjoyed waiting the last two times but if I can order it and have it sent to me, I am doing that in the future. That is MUCH easier for me even if it is a day later.
 
Can't help but notice around 40 seconds in the video a guy tosses one of the boxes to a guy on the other side of the conveyer belt, but the guy on the receiving end misses the box and drops it...Hope that's not anybody's iPhone!:eek:
 
I can see this phone having a rather slow adoption. The 3G is still perfectly capable of (pretty much) everything at the moment... people will upgrade when they start to see some awesome apps that make use of the magneto-thingy.
 
gwynnethpc said:
i preordered on the 9th. the fedex tracking said i won't get until MONDAY! :confused:
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And THAT ^^ is why I'd rather wait in line tomorrow. I'd be having a nervous breakdown checking the FedEx site constantly.

Oh and for those asking why you would not order online...if you are getting two phones on a family plan, you couldn't order online! We had no choice but to go to the AT&T store because they were only allowing 1 phone per house ordered online.
 
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