iPhone X Shipping Estimates Improve to 2 to 3 Weeks in United States and Canada

[springsup]

Sure. What a winner you are. How cheap was that car?
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It’s a massive hit. Sorry you can’t manage getting one. And as for Samsung, their road map is to copy Apple’s heralded moves and try to beat them to the market, like facial recognition. The problem is they don’t have he imagination to have their own ideas and do them well.

Source? Sorry, but if we can't point to shipping estimates as evidence of poor sales, nobody can point to poor availability as evidence of high sales.

Apple is doing facial recognition better; sure, you'd expect that. It's Apple, they should be better. Still, the iPhone X is not a show-stopper. There's nothing new, original or inventive about it. It's a catchup device. Well executed, perhaps, but still a catchup.

As for me personally - the company I work for just ordered one for me. I didn't even know. If it was my money I wouldn't buy it. So you can stop that whole "you're only jealous!" thing. It's a product. You don't need special skills or years of dedicated practice to own one, only money.

 

[David G.]

Sure. What a winner you are. How cheap was that car?
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2013 Jetta Sportwagen purchased used during the summer of 2015. >$5000 was remaining, the profit didn't pay all of it but it certainly did help.

 

[Jbobby22]

It must be for carriers also! Ordered mine 11/3 was scheduled for 12/8. Got email last night it’s coming today! 2 weeks not to bad

 

[PBG4 Dude]

There are a bunch available again in New England this morning. 64/256 in silver and 64 in grey.

 

[mandymoo]

I ordered an iPhone X Silver 256 on 11/11 with an arrival date of 11/30 through Best Buy and just received an email saying it had arrived today. Though my husband's silver 64, ordered on the same day, still is not in yet.

 

[IJ Reilly]

I ordered an iPhone X Silver 256 on 11/11 with an arrival date of 11/30 through Best Buy and just received an email saying it had arrived today. Though my husband's silver 64, ordered on the same day, still is not in yet.

That's interesting. I was told at an AT&T retail store that the silver 64 would be the easiest to get. Of course they haven't seen any retail stock yet, so that might just be a guess on their part.

 

[mandymoo]

That's interesting. I was told at an AT&T retail store that the silver 64 would be the easiest to get. Of course they haven't seen any retail stock yet, so that might just be a guess on their part.

We are with Verizon, not sure if that matters. I am a bit surprised that my phone came in first though.

 

[IJ Reilly]

We are with Verizon, not sure if that matters. I am a bit surprised that my phone came in first though.

Probably does. As of yesterday, the online stock-checking sites show at least some retail availability for many models and carriers, but almost none for AT&T.

 

[Ankaa]

Quite possible sometime tomorrow or Friday.

If I recall, for the 7/7 Plus models, Sim-Free model was available 2 weeks after initial launch. It was around there.

Could they potentially wait until after Thanksgiving? Apple usually doesn't join Black Friday, but maybe they'll use it to launch the simfree version?

 

[johngordon]

This.

The iPhone X is a nice device, I'm sure, but it's not a show-stopper. It's not going to shake the industry up one jot - in fact, it's mostly just catching up with the features most mid/high-end Android devices have had for years. It's a little bit better than those devices in some small ways - you'd expect that much, at least! - but it's not going to make Samsung tear up their roadmap or lead to any appreciable amount of switching.

And then Apple goes and charges $1000 for it. Pffft! No thanks. Knowing Apple, though, they will try to keep the iPhone X's design at a price premium for as long as possible. I expect an iPhone 8S to launch alongside the X-2 next year. It's going to be hilarious.

It may not be a show stopper because, for example, it has facial recognition, and facial recognition isn't new.

However, it works incredibly well - its basically continuous authentication.

And a lot of it is in the detail - notifications are probably the best example - the way they appear on the lock screen, but can still be private. And reveal a preview when you look at the screen. Its a small thing in some ways, but huge in others.

And a tiny detail I love - don't laugh though! - is the little animation nudging you to swipe up after unlocking. There's a little bar at the bottom of the screen (used to show where to swipe to switch between apps) that rises a little, at its highest point text fades in and up just above it saying 'swipe up to open', as the bar then sort of floats back down. Its such a tiny detail, but I just love how they've done it.

And its all those little details which kind of make me like iOS and the iPhone so much.