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U.S. Shipping Estimates for iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Through Apple Slip Again to July 14th
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$299 ties you into a 2 year contract. The UK prices that have so far been announced are unlocked iPhone prices. So you can't compare them.
Contract prices have not been announced in the UK yet, but they won't be much more expensive compared to the US prices if you get your math right. (i.e. include US sales tax, cost of doing business in the UK compared to US, etc.)
Stop whining, start using your head.
My waiting will be done on my couch while sipping a frosty cold beer and watching for the FedEx truck. Bwaaa haaaa haaaa!
Yesterday was nuts ...
I confess that I actually spent the whole day (some would argue "compulsively") trying to pre-order ... as I was going about my work.
By about 4:30 PST, I successfully made it through and pre-ordered a 32 GB iPhone 4 which will arrive June 24th. Given I was literally retrying every few minutes (sometimes waiting, say, 10 minutes or longer as I was doing stuff for work) from about 9:30 AM through 4 PM ... and just *barely* made it before Apple sold out ... just proves how difficult it was to make it through. I was tempted several times to just give up. But I am glad I didn't.
I confess that I actually spent the whole day (some would argue "compulsively") trying to pre-order ... as I was going about my work.
By about 4:30 PST, I successfully made it through and pre-ordered a 32 GB iPhone 4 which will arrive June 24th. Given I was literally retrying every few minutes (sometimes waiting, say, 10 minutes or longer as I was doing stuff for work) from about 9:30 AM through 4 PM ... and just *barely* made it before Apple sold out ... just proves how difficult it was to make it through. I was tempted several times to just give up. But I am glad I didn't.
So what happened last year (3GS) with the reserve vs. pre-order vs. walk in?
Was there a separate line for each?
I'm still on the iphone 2g.
Nice.
Yeah, I am taking the 24th off from work...
To go golfing. Then when I get home, I will have my iPhone waiting for me at my house
Radio Shack
Couldn't get through to the web store on Tuesday so went down the street to a Radio Shack to order. Even they were having prob's, my clerk was on the phone to other RS store trying to talk him thru the process. I was the 5th pre-order at that RS. Not sure if mine went thru, I'll find out on the 24th I guess.
Couldn't get through to the web store on Tuesday so went down the street to a Radio Shack to order. Even they were having prob's, my clerk was on the phone to other RS store trying to talk him thru the process. I was the 5th pre-order at that RS. Not sure if mine went thru, I'll find out on the 24th I guess.
Just order the thing, and be happy that you have a order with a confirmed ship date. Yea you might wait a little longer, but if you do manage to get one before yours ships you can always cancel.
I was wondering this myself. I don't think you can leave the store without an activated phone.How do you buy more than one? Don't you have to activate them at the store before leaving? Didn't they start that awhile back so you couldn't just buy several and sell them? Looks like a flaw in the system if you ask me. And its not fair to the people who really wanted one but couldnt get into the system to order one. Go capitalism...
I have a feeling a lot of you E-Bay bounty hunters are going to be disappointed come June 24.
WTF are you talking about . Preordering from Apple.com gives a delivery date. Are you trying to say that preorders WONT arrive ?
It is.
Sales of 600,000 iPhone 4's barely account for .06% of the U.S. population.
And $200-$300 is not a lot of money in the grand scheme.
And there you have it. Reservations do not take a credit card. Good luck to all that made reservations. That's all I can say...
Well seeing as the preorder will show up on the doorstep.... And even if the phone is activated, $200 + the $375 ETF + approx $50 act fee, + 1 month of data ($15) is $700.
My guess is come the 24th / 25th these phones will be SELLING (not just for sale ) on ebay for >$1K to the rich lazy people who want to be first.
Well, I hope they shut off pre-orders before they go and sell out the phones for the next 2 months.
same boat. i had it a couple times but i stopped to get my card and the time expired and the other one i stopped to make sure everything was correct and it expired again.. lame
I wish. If that was the case, I wouldn't have to explain to them that it is not 4g capable, and that At&t doesn't have a 4g network.
So lets take a look back to last year. How did Apple retail stores handle this?
Did pre-order in store pick-ups get front of line status? Did "reserve" orders get priority over walk-ins. What am I missing here?