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iPhone 6 Pre-Orders to Kick off Tonight at 12:01 AM Pacific
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Yes, thanks for the clarification: I meant if you bought it from Apple.
The ones sold by the carriers will be locked, but if you pay full price for it you should be able to unlock it right away.
If you're pre-ordering from best buy,I just got this email saying pre-orders IN STORE.
I cropped the email so you could see the important part.
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T-Mobile makes you sign up for service and wait 40 days before they will unlock it. AT&T will unlock it right away if you send them a receipt showing that you paid full price for it, but technically their policy is that they will unlock it only if you are a customer, so if you are not I wouldn't chance it.
We'll have to see. More reason for me not to order on day one.
I'm lucky in that I'm not in dire straits to order like I was for the iPhone 5. My iPhone 4 had a flakey power button so I was desperate to upgrade. This time I'm not.
It didn't work for me with the 5, but I called AT&T a few days later and asked if they could grandfather my unlimited plan into the new phone and they were able to do it right away.
Thank you! I will do my best to try tonight at 12.01, I did order an iPad to my friends flat a few months ago with my UK credit card and it worked. If that does work, I will have it the 19th and hopefully its already unlocked. Or i will just walk down to an Apple Store. Or I will just wake up on the 20th and go to Apple Store SOHO or Grand central.
It's only "stupid" to pre order If you dont know what you want. Most people pre-ordering have access to rulers & figured out what they need so test models are not required for us. We just want our phone ASAP and without waiting in line.
If you need to eyeball both side by side then pre-ordering isn't for you. Just hold off until next weekend. No big.
I'd like to know this as well. Gonna suck if its 8am as I work nights so will have to stay up
Yes, the decision whether to go for the Plus is a tricky one! About the saddest thing I've ever done in my life with regards to tech, but this morning I rode into work with this in my pocket to get a 'feel' for life with a phablet
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I did exactly the same thing with cardboard! I came to the conclusion it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be...
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It looks huge on that photo, but i did the same thing with cardboard and even got the depth right and it really isn't as big in the hand as it seems on that photo!
Yes, the decision whether to go for the Plus is a tricky one! About the saddest thing I've ever done in my life with regards to tech, but this morning I rode into work with this in my pocket to get a 'feel' for life with a phablet
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Um, if only the thickness was not 10x the actual device, you might have had something there.
I am going to be pre-ordering online for the first time, going with Verizon Edge so I have to do it on Verizon's site and not Apple's. That's okay with me, hoping that maybe Verizon won't be quite as stressed with people ordering as Apple!
When I went from the 3GS to the 4, I pre-ordered from Best Buy and it was an absolute nightmare! We pre-ordered out phones on the first day you could but when they received phones in store, some were reserved for pre-orders and some for walk in customers. It was almost 2 weeks until we had our phones and I was furious. I am hoping that my experience ordering online will be vastly different.
In the meantime, is it 3 am yet? Can't believe I am going to get up at ~2:45 to do this, then hopefully go back to sleep for at least a few hours before going to work. I guess that's still better than camping outside in a line!
When I went from the 3GS to the 4, I pre-ordered from Best Buy and it was an absolute nightmare! We pre-ordered out phones on the first day you could but when they received phones in store, some were reserved for pre-orders and some for walk in customers. It was almost 2 weeks until we had our phones and I was furious. I am hoping that my experience ordering online will be vastly different.
In the meantime, is it 3 am yet? Can't believe I am going to get up at ~2:45 to do this, then hopefully go back to sleep for at least a few hours before going to work. I guess that's still better than camping outside in a line!
I'm not going to buy an iPhone, because the 5c is so expensive. However I will try to be on Apple's US website just to contribute for the total server meltdown and to piss people off.
5c is so expensive? I thought it was now free.
Could have been a typo but not everyone buys their phones on subsidized plans, they may be referring to the full price.
And the "new" 5C will only have 8GB of memory, so yes, even free it's too expensive.
iPhone 6 64GB.
Gold.
Tmobile full retail priced.
Now take my money.
iPhone 6 Grandè
128gb
Space gray
AT&T 1 year upgrade non subsidized price.
Now take my money as well!
Who is the postie for Apple store online orders in the UK? It's been 2 years since I got my Air that way (I've forgotten)...
If anyone says yodel, I'm running for the hills lol.
As ever, the upgrade options you have in the US bamboozle me. I believe EE, Voda and Three are offering pre-orders but I've not found sight of any pricing..
Suspect if I do make up my mind it'll be another unlocked one from the Apple store. Marginally cheaper over two years and fairly hassle free.
If anyone says yodel, I'm running for the hills lol.
As ever, the upgrade options you have in the US bamboozle me. I believe EE, Voda and Three are offering pre-orders but I've not found sight of any pricing..
Suspect if I do make up my mind it'll be another unlocked one from the Apple store. Marginally cheaper over two years and fairly hassle free.
The keynote was to stress test the servers.... now they know to improve them
The Keynote challenges where not capacity related. They'd not fully tested their live blog software, specific to the twitter feed. It's been covered in a couple of different places.
Well, it's 06.10 Friday morning in Sydney and it's still not available for pre-order. I'm going to guess that it's not going to be midnight UK time if it's not midnight Sydney time.
If this works (assuming I end up doing it), thank you! I'm not the primary on the account and that person lives in a completely different state from me. I'd rather not play hot potato with my fancy new phone.