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iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Start at 12:01 AM Pacific on Friday
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Has anyone noticed that "Siri" is "Iris" spelled backwards?
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I've bought every iPhone since the original on launch day or a couple of days after. My current pricing from AT&T is:
16GB: $649
32GB: $749
64GB: $849
And after 3/29/12:
16GB: $449
32GB: $549
64GB: $649
Needless to say, I'm looking at Sprint with their data plans. I'll probably switch.
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I've bought every iPhone since the original on launch day or a couple of days after. My current pricing from AT&T is:
16GB: $649
32GB: $749
64GB: $849
And after 3/29/12:
16GB: $449
32GB: $549
64GB: $649
Needless to say, I'm looking at Sprint with their data plans. I'll probably switch.
I actually doubt that you can - upon looking at the photo's I think the silent switch is located closer to the volume buttons because of the split antenna.
One of our accounts looks like this, but I think that "before date" must be a interim partial discount?
Before Dec 17, 2011
$449.00
$549.00
$649.00
After Dec 17, 2011
$199.00
$299.00
$399.00
Your pre-date prices look like the full amount, and your post-date looks like the partial discount price (i.e., -$200)
What I'm trying to recall is when I got the phone on that account, I think it was December, so that looks like a full discount after one year on contract.
None of this bothers me but wouldn't life be better if they would finally allow personal message tones !!!! Really bugs me.
I wont jailbreak any device incase I break it.
dont count on those same data plans you see on their site today...expect the Sprint iPhone plans to be separate and at a cost similar to AT&T & Verizon.
Both my wife and I are going to buy the 4s. The hard part now is deciding which wireless carrier to use. Presently, I am on Verizon but there are things I like about AT&T, like roll over minutes and voice/data at the same time. I like the $25 unlimited data plan that Sprint offers, which is unknown how long that will last. With Verizon I would have to get the $50 data plan before I could use the Personal Hotspot on the iPhone. I have no complaints about Verizon service in the 5 years I have been using it. Decisions, decisions...
Well, in any case you need to increase the size of the phone to get better battery life, unless other stuff inside get smaller, which aren't. I don't think the battery life is a problem right now, or it's as big of a problem for every competitor out there. I don't know any smartphones with significantly more battery lives than iP4. All smartphones need a charge every day basically.
Woot!
I live in Royal Oak, Michigan and my local Sprint store is already doing preorders. I just called and preordered mine, no money down.
I live in Royal Oak, Michigan and my local Sprint store is already doing preorders. I just called and preordered mine, no money down.
...er, so twice the bandwidth due to said antenna is not an awesome benefit? curious.
...no, it wasnt. it wasnt an issue to over 99% of customers, and it was proven that other phones have the same problem -- cup your water-based flesh over the antenna spot and they lose signal. thats life, joe.
...wow. such entitlement. is your face okay? i hope so. let us know?
I've been saying the same thing as the lady who wrote that article. The 4S is designed for new customers and for those with a 3GS, not for those with a 4. With 2-year contracts in place, Apple would piss people off no matter what they did.
If they had released a true iPhone 5, can you imagine the number of people bitching that Apple released this bold new product and they can't afford to terminate their contract early, so Apple sucks for trying to force more money out of them?
This year is for people like me. I'm with Sprint, and now I'll gladly be on the "S" cycle of iPhones. Next year is for you people who bought the 4. Every year, one group gets bragging rights over the other. It's like two (friendly) warring camps within the Apple camp.
I like that idea.
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According to Sprint's CEO (and a letter I recently got from Sprint regarding the cancellation of their "Premier" program), the unlimited data package is staying. We'll see how long it lasts, but for the foreseeable future, it'll be there.
They are so far behind in subscriber numbers, it'd take years and years of adding new customers for their systems to be over-whelmed. Plus, the unlimited data is just about the only thing they have over their competitors that would get people to switch to Sprint. They have even been pushing that fact in their latest commercials.
If they ever do decide to get rid of it, I hope to be grandfathered into keeping the plan permanently, as some longtime AT&T and Verizon customers are.
I got in on the first day of pre-order from Apple site (stay away from the carriers pre-orders as they were slower) for iPhone 4 and it was suppose to arrive at release June 24th, 2010. However it actually got FedEx delivered the day before June 23rd.
So I'm hoping that this might occur again given how many countries they are releasing to and FedEx being able to handle the home deliveries the same day as all the stores are planning to get. So to me the win win is pre-order from Apple.com.
How do you figure? I bought mine the day after launch and I am eligible!
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No, but seriously, stereo sound is NOT a huge request is it.
Apple prides themselves on iTunes, and the music they deliver to the world through it. Do you really think having 2 speakers on their products is ridiculous request?
I love their products, thats why I own so many, but I have always hoped of better sound in each.
Consider yourself lucky. My wife and I both bought ours on release day but I cannot upgrade until Nov 20, 2011 and she cannot until 2/12/2012!