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Where Will You Buy the New iPhone?

Where do you plan to buy the new iPhone?

  • AppleStore.com

    Votes: 200 54.2%

  • Apple Brick & Mortar Store

    Votes: 49 13.3%

  • Wirelesss Carrier Store (AT&T, VZW, Sprint, etc.)

    Votes: 81 22.0%

  • Big Box Store (Wal-Mart, Target, BestBuy, etc.)

    Votes: 23 6.2%

  • Other Authorized 3rd Party Retailer

    Votes: 4 1.1%

  • Other (Explain below)

    Votes: 12 3.3%
  • Total voters
    369
  • Poll closed .
formerpc said:
Verizon Store. Why? It's simple: I want to keep my unlimited data and to do that I have to pay full price for the phone, which you cannot do at the Apple Store (for Verizon anyways).
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You can with apple.com. But your right, not for in store purchases.
 
I'll probably head down my local Apple Store and get one unlocked a couple of weeks after launch. I hate having to wait for deliveries, I'm far too impatient for that :p
 
0dev said:
I'll probably head down my local Apple Store and get one unlocked a couple of weeks after launch. I hate having to wait for deliveries, I'm far too impatient for that :p
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I wish I had a local Apple store. I have to settle for a VZW authorized 3rd party retailer. :( In other words, I'm ordering from VZW.com. :)
 
probably from the apple website. don't want to deal with the ****** geniuses/sales reps i've had the displeasure of being serviced by around here. :mad:
 
Apple.com because:
1) The closest Apple store is an hour and a half away, and too busy with college to take the time to go.
2) AT&T says I don't get coverage in the area where my parents live (which is the plan I'm on), so they won't let me order.
3) I just like going through Apple directly. I've never had issues.
4) I'll get my phone the first day of deliveries if I order on time.
5) I don't know how many units my local Best Buy will get.
 
I would 100% order off the apple.com website... however in Canada, we don't have the option to order from apple if we want to renew our contract... I'll be stuck with preordering through my carrier... which I don't really want to do but oh well... UNLESS apple changes their format this year which is highly unlikely!
 
ipedro said:
I want to buy it at the Apple store unlocked. Does Apple keep separate stock locked to each provider and separate unlocked iPhones or are all phones unlocked originally and then locked to a provider if you buy it subsidized
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As I have read on other threads, Apple just issues the iPhone on a locked or unlocked database via iTunes so the iPhone has the same characteristics or serial number sequence, no matter if it's locked or unlocked.

When you activate it via iTunes it will give you the congratulations message. So if they are running out of full factory unlocked phones (the ones with the ejection tool), they can just grab one from Verizon or sprint inventory and sell it to a customer as unlocked as well. So if there are 1000 iPhone units at an Apple store at one time, they all have the potential to be unlocked.
 
purchasing from Wireless because I can charge $400 to my account and just pay the other $449 [buying the highest gb which will more than likely come out to 849]. Sold my iphone 4s yesterday, and agreed with buyer I'll ship it tomorrow at 10am.

Just gotta be with my Motorola Droid for a week or so. No big deal
 
I'll be purchasing me and my families iPhones @ an Apple store next month when we are eligible. Hopefully by that time the demand won't be as crazy.
 
Amazon (Other 3rd Party)

Sold my iPhone 4S to them using their trade in for a gift card. While the gift card is not usable with their wireless section (wireless.amazon.com), unsubsidized phones (which is what I'm buying) are sold on their main site so the card is usable for this.
 
Preordering an unsubsidized Verizon phone from the Apple website.

I can't see paying $100/mo to be reduced from my current unlimited plan. By buying unsubsidized, I'll make the difference up in less than a year.
 
I got jobbed with the 4S last year - was among the first to order in Canada when the floodgates opened and Apple was late delivering it to me (release/expected delivery date was a Friday, wound up getting it on a Monday, if I recall).

Ended up going to a store on Friday when I realized this to buy one myself. I returned the one I ordered online.

Not sure what to do this year.
 
I will be waiting until the day the phone goes on sale at my Verizon store and buying it there. Fortunately for me I live in a smaller city and the new iPhone launch days aren't too bad at all. I've been told this one might be a little busier, but I'll just plan to get there early and wait.
 
Che Castro said:
How does this work if i order thru apple , they have my at&t info?
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I think Apple partener with the networks for big device launches. I was told that I could pickup my iPhone 4 in an Apple store and sort out my O2 contract at the same time (i'm in the UK), which I doubted because I've never known apple get directly involved with contracts. But they were right! They must have had o2 staff in the Apple store on the day or something.
 
Tibu said:
Whatever people do, they need to remeber just ONE important detail.

NEVER EVER PREORDER FROM AT&T. EVER.

See last years AT&T Pre Order fiasco thread and my experience in particular here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13620284#post13620284
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I read through all of the posts and my question is this. If I order from Apple and have it delivered or pick it up in the store do I then have to go to AT&T to activate and keep my unlimited plan? When I got my 4 I preorderd and went to the Apple store and they activated it for me but then I wasn't worried about losing the unlimited plan. I am also now on my wife's plan, do I have to have her with me?

Thanks
 
i'm gonna go stand in line outside my local cvs pharmacy for the new iphone. hope i get an early spot, because i'm planning on getting a 16gig black model, and those usually sell out quickly.
 
definitive said:
i'm gonna go stand in line outside my local cvs pharmacy for the new iphone. hope i get an early spot, because i'm planning on getting a 16gig black model, and those usually sell out quickly.
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I'm picking mine up from McDonald's when I drive-thru and get my egg mcmuffinn.
 
I'm not sure I'll even buy the next iPhone. I won't make that decision until I see what the next phone will be like.
 
ET iPhone Home said:
I'm thinking this time around to get an unlocked iPhone 5 and go with a Virgin Mobile plan a subsidized the cost through their inexpensive plans.
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Virgin is cdma. While the unlocked phone has all the radios, you can only use it on gsm only since cdma carriers won't add it to their database. You have to get a virgin phone to use their service. CDMA sucks.

jargon51 said:
I read through all of the posts and my question is this. If I order from Apple and have it delivered or pick it up in the store do I then have to go to AT&T to activate and keep my unlimited plan?
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You probably won't be able to pick it up. It's either online or buy in the store.
You should be able to keep unlimited, unless at&t releases policy that says otherwise. The only issue is if you have a fan discount; you might have to limit yourself to the fan web site
 
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eastercat said:
You probably won't be able to pick it up. It's either online or buy in the store.
You should be able to keep unlimited, unless at&t releases policy that says otherwise. The only issue is if you have a fan discount; you might have to limit yourself to the fan web site
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Thanks
 
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