Hopefully you were one of the more determined (or decisive) people that pre-ordered their Verizon iPhones earlier today. As it stands now, you’ll have to wait until the 10th to get yours…along with everyone else. Pre-ordered Verizon iPhones are officially sold out.
Verizon users and CDMA iPhone wannabes, listen up: Pre-orders begin at 3am on February 3rd. Supplies are said to be limited. So once they’re out, they’re out. You’ll have to wait until the actual launch date of February 10th before you can wrap your mitts around one.
In other news: The same memo that leaked the 3am pre-order launch time also mentioned several prices for AT&T iPhone trade-ins:
If the above turns out to be true, that’s a pretty decent deal from a carrier. (As of course, eBay, Craigslist, etc. will net you far better re-sale prices for your aging iDevice.) If trade-ins aren’t kept solely to business customers and do in fact come to the masses, I can’t see how it wouldn’t be popular. AT&T, you better watch out!
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A quick refresher in case you didn’t know: Today was iPhone 4 pre-order day, and well, both Apple and AT&T had issues. AT&T had far more worrisome issues however, with numerous reports across the web (really, a search will turn up a ton) that users were all of a sudden finding themselves logged in to other AT&T customers’ accounts showing quite a bit of personal information. You’d think such a security hiccup right after the whole iPad blunder that occurred last week would elicit a quick and remorseful response. Ha! Don’t kid yourselves. This is AT&T after all. And so it goes, AT&T’s response:
We have received reports of customers inadvertently seeing the wrong account information during the iPhone 4 purchasing process. We have been unable to replicate the issue, but the information displayed did not include call-detail records, social security numbers, or credit card information.
In the meantime, we are looking into this matter
If that isn’t incompetence, stupidity, and blatant denial all wrapped up in a disgusting little Blue Globe of suck I don’t know what is. Apparently, there isn’t a single soul wearing an AT&T shirt who knows what or uses this thing called the internet. What a fluster cluck. You stay classy AT&T.
The last few days if you mentioned the words, Verizon, current user, and pre-order BlackBerry Tour, you may have wittnessed a small example of what standing next to a nuclear explosion was like. Verizon’s early decision to lock out current customers from being able to pre-order what is easily the best CDMA BlackBerry to date was downright ludicrous. Thankfully cooler heads have prevailed and the consumer has once again won another battle thanks to the power of voices in numbers. So, I leave you with the above image to ponder on all that is good and what the collective whole have accomplished today!
Source: Mobile Crunch, BGR, VZW
The first iPhone drew massive crowds will people coming from all walks of life: tall, short, little, fat, smart, not so smart, etc. You name it, they were there. When the iPhone 3G rolled around, it appeared that just as many if not more people again risked the elements and their personal health to be one of the first to grab a hold of Apple’s latest iDevice. As the now yearly iPhone launch eve is upon us, we can sit back and reflect on the last two years and iPhone releases as to what made those previous models so darn tempting. The original was obviously the best smartphone release ever as it was a truly revolutionary device at it’s time. The 3G was a pretty big update bringing the speed that many requested allowing web browsing actually be useful over AT&T’s network. And so we come to the iPhone 3G S. On the outside it is the same beast, but the real beauty lies inside the pretty, if not slightly outdated styled case. The biggest hardware improvements bring actual processing speed as well as data speeds. The rest are provided by software that is available to previous 3G and 1st gen owners which begs the question, who is going to upgrade?
Those of you eager to follow non-stop live action of the iPhone 3G S line waiting event can follow The iLife Blog and feel as if you yourself are sitting on the rain soaked concrete, umbrella in hand, and geeky smile in tow.
The iLife Blog would like to let you know that at least one of their faithful and diligent writers will in fact be doing just that. They are proud to be the first in line at NY’s 5th Ave. Apple Store where they have already been interviewed by the likes of Engadget, CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Fortune. So tell me, are the minor improvements enough to make you do the line dance a 3rd year? Or, are you going to sit this one out. Of course, you could always be faking everyone out by enjoying the convenience of pre-orders and instead welcoming the launch in your humble abode footed PJ’s and all…right? Gibralter….you excited?
Source: Engadget
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