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See http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/htc-desire-black-edition-confirmed-coming-to-orange-uk-in-late/
Ooh, black, me want!
Not enough to accept the prices Orange charge, or the way they mangle their phone software though (I know it will be rooted soooner or later)!
IMO the black looks cheap and tacky on the Desire, I saw a vid in youtube, does not look nice at all on the Desire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-mUxxJIEM&feature=player_embedded
I kinda like the black one, similar to the choice of a graphite Hero or G2 Touch - I'd choose G2 touch anyday..
Apparently it'll be available 2nd April
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...ikely-to-offer-htc-desire-from-2-april-680289
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Apparently it'll be available 2nd April
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...ikely-to-offer-htc-desire-from-2-april-680289
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Yeah- as has been stated, the original brown should be available after the 2nd April and the black one (exclusive to orange) available towards the end of the month. Not sure I wanna wait that long although I would prefer black.
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IMO the black looks cheap and tacky on the Desire, I saw a vid in youtube, does not look nice at all on the Desire
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I totally agree! The first picture I saw i thought -- eeew, it's the "MyTouch" (Magic) black finish ... Me NO like... (to me looks like -- looks like -- the finish would scrape away with fingernail... and now I shall get out of this thread and back where i belong, amidst the brownies... )
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Yeah- as has been stated, the original brown should be available after the 2nd April and the black one (exclusive to orange) available towards the end of the month. Not sure I wanna wait that long although I would prefer black.
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Same here - wouldn't mind the black one - but is it good enough for me to wait another month? Am not sure - just desperate to get my mitts on one (through Orange - but my contract ends on April 27th so if they muck me around too much...). Hopefully they'll have it in by next week....
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Same here - wouldn't mind the black one - but is it good enough for me to wait another month? Am not sure - just desperate to get my mitts on one (through Orange - but my contract ends on April 27th so if they muck me around too much...). Hopefully they'll have it in by next week....
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Its not even on the "coming soon" part of their website so I'm wondering what they're playing at.
There's nothing about it on the orange intranet either. I asked internally and was told it was due to the specifications being confidential.
I can only imagine that was due to the exclusive colour option, though it isn't unusual for us to find out company news on the register or other tech sites! Not helpful when I want one and can't find out any info on it apart from what's on tech sites. Sales hadn't been given any more info, they didn't even know it existed. Should be more info released very soon though.
I rang this evening to be told its out next week..I think they wanted to wait til new tariffs to be available which was from today. Mobiles.co.uk and cpw have orange upgrades available.
I just got a text from a mate at work saying they put info up on the intranet about two minutes after I left today! I might have been going on about it a little bit...
I'll put up anything interesting I find tomorrow, doubt there will be though.
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I just got a text from a mate at work saying they put info up on the intranet about two minutes after I left today! I might have been going on about it a little bit...
I'll put up anything interesting I find tomorrow, doubt there will be though.
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Interesting.Keep us updated mate..
I've read a few reports suggesting that Orange will be making the desire available from today (Fri 2nd Apr) through its stores and possibly online. Think techradar confirmed this in a recent article.
Can anyone shed any more light on the chances of a release today?!
Go to bed.... wake up and see!
I would be suprised if they did as 4 days ago the guy at orange said he had no clue when it is out.
I rang Orange retentions at 09:01 this morning. No HTC Desire, no release date, not likely to be released later today. Just goes to show you can't always believe what you read on t'internet!
What they did say is that they feed back demand to the powers that be on a daily basis so the more people who ring up and ask for a Desire, the faster it will be released. Apparently they are waiting until their stock of HTC Hero and some other handsets is used up (around 3-4 days worth) before launching the Desire but will launch it earlier if they sense they are losing out to other networks.
If anyone hear different, let us know!
Ian A.
Well I'm gonna head off to Vodafone once Devicewire get them in - they've got a good £25/month deal with 600 mins +texts +'unlimited' internet. I have no real faith in Orange anymore unless retentions offer me a really good deal (and based on what I had to do 18 months ago, that is as likely as me playing for the Arsenal at the Nou Camp on Tuesday - although given our injuries... )
Oh and one more thing that will definitely delay it with Orange - last night the released the Xperia X10 - they'll want to shift them first before the HTC Desire. I originally wanted that but now the reviews haven't been that favourable - no multi-touch (ever!!!!), Android 1.6 with a promise to go to 2.1 (presumably when everyone has gone to 3.0) - although their mediascape, timescape interfaces do work well. Hardware wise it could've been the ultimate handset - 8MP camera, 4 inch hi-def screen etc. yet only being a smidgeon bigger than an iPhone. Yet SE screw up again by releasing a handset with a version of software that is 6 months old. And given their current record of not fully supporting their handsets when they're out (extrememly slow updates, with bugs not being ironed out) I think I'll be giving that one a miss...
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Apparently they are waiting until their stock of HTC Hero and some other handsets is used up (around 3-4 days worth) before launching the Desire but will launch it earlier if they sense they are losing out to other networks.
If anyone hear different, let us know!
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Are they having a laugh? They'll releease it earlier if they sense they are losing out to other networks? OK, T-Mobile had first the exclusive to get it out first, but Vodafone have it and even bloody Virgin Media have it. Losing out to other networks is a masterpiece of understatement if VM have the thing and the supposed "best network of 2009" don't yet!
I doubt they will wait for them to get rid of Xerpia X10 as its the Desire's alternative option so people who dont like HTC and are Sony fans will go for that while others will want Desire.
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I doubt they will wait for them to get rid of Xerpia X10 as its the Desire's alternative option so people who dont like HTC and are Sony fans will go for that while others will want Desire.
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Ordinarily that would be true but this is Orange we're talking about here!!!
Besides I believe they are the first to be selling the X10 so whilst they have that advantage they're gonna push that to the full. If you have a choice between that and the Desire then it fragments their sales for the X10. And let us not forget there is an outside chance of them not even stocking it all!
With the X1 they were constantly saying it was coming etc. and in the end they never officially released it (even though cpw and others were selling it on Orange plans). The X10 was listed as a coming soon phone for the last month or so, and yet the HTC Desire isn't even listed as coming soon.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it never came out on Orange (esp. if they can't get their crapware onto it)...
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I'm not agree with you
(Ok, it's in France... Good news for us anyways )
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Ordinarily that would be true but this is Orange we're talking about here!!!
Besides I believe they are the first to be selling the X10 so whilst they have that advantage they're gonna push that to the full. If you have a choice between that and the Desire then it fragments their sales for the X10. And let us not forget there is an outside chance of them not even stocking it all!
With the X1 they were constantly saying it was coming etc. and in the end they never officially released it (even though cpw and others were selling it on Orange plans). The X10 was listed as a coming soon phone for the last month or so, and yet the HTC Desire isn't even listed as coming soon.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it never came out on Orange (esp. if they can't get their crapware onto it)...
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True, I hope that dont happen tho otherwise I will have to wait till July before changing to another network as upgrade can be done early but I cant afford to buy the rest of my contract and then get a new one.
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thats good news as if its out in France I cant see why they wont be out in UK.
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I'm not agree with you
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Hehe - good news for you guys but:
http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-pho...nvBLDTszxGDLTK1j4vwH6JG!1816178946!-514848741
Still nothing for us! For the record I reckon it will come out but Lord knows when they will announce it. The Orange PR guy said 'early April, with the black edition late April'.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/htc-desire-black-edition-confirmed-coming-to-orange-uk-in-late/
When you consider that, it is quite bizarre that officially they don't even list it as coming soon...
Sometimes, Orange guys are not very well informed
I went in a shop two days ago (Desire already were on Orange website) and the man tell me he never heard speaking about the HTC Desire... We have so good sellers in our country
Well, once again I have spoken to Orqange and the best answer they could come out with was "within the next two weeks".
FFS it's typical Orange. Always the first to announce and the last to get!
I have, and I quote, been promised that "We'll send you a text message as soon as they have the handset available, so that you can arrange to obtain the phone".
Place your bets now on whether I'll actually get a text or not...
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Well, once again I have spoken to Orqange and the best answer they could come out with was "within the next two weeks".
FFS it's typical Orange. Always the first to announce and the last to get!
I have, and I quote, been promised that "We'll send you a text message as soon as they have the handset available, so that you can arrange to obtain the phone".
Place your bets now on whether I'll actually get a text or not...
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Yeah Orange are very bad at getting new phones in, I had this issue with the Nokia N78 and they never ended up getting it. Although that time, they had not announced they will have it while they did with Desire and its on the French website so in that way it must mean it WILL come but when is the question. They got till 14th as thats when I can upgrade ha ha but o2 not getting it till 19th and 3 till 20th so Orange got till then to be same time as others.
Have any of you guys considered making the switch to T-mobile seeing as how in a few months they will both be the same 1 network anyway?
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Have any of you guys considered making the switch to T-mobile seeing as how in a few months they will both be the same 1 network anyway?
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I am - but the department that handles issuing the PAC codes aren't open today. Will be on the phone from 09:00 tomorrow to get it and then will order the T-Mobile package (£30/month 18 months) off mobiles.co.uk.
Apparently the phone isn't even in their reviews list and the bloke on the phone wasn't even sure they would be getting it!!!!
Bet i get a different story tomorrow when I finally get my PAC code....
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I am - but the department that handles issuing the PAC codes aren't open today. Will be on the phone from 09:00 tomorrow to get it and then will order the T-Mobile package (£30/month 18 months) off mobiles.co.uk.
Apparently the phone isn't even in their reviews list and the bloke on the phone wasn't even sure they would be getting it!!!!
Bet i get a different story tomorrow when I finally get my PAC code....
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If you go through T-Mobile themselves you'll get a much better deal, the are also much more reliable than mobiles.co.uk seem to be and if the phone breaks you have the added security that you can just take it back into a store for repair instead of bothering with mailing it off etc.
If you haggle on the phone you can get the prices down, I got from this:
Handset cost : £60
600 Minutes
500 Texts
Flexible Booster
3GB Internet
£25 P/M
To:
Handset Cost: Free
600 Mins
Unlimited Texts (the flexible booster)
3GB Internet
£25 P/M
Try these excuses:
- I just phoned up and was told the phone was £x (this is what I did, I was genuine but it worked, might have to phone twice as they have it on record I assume when you phoned up)
- x.com is doing a better deal
- Vodafone is doing a better deal.
Ah OK, thanks for the advice - I was assuming a lot of the good deals were for current customers - is your deal 18 months? I don't wish to be tied in to a two year contract...
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Ah OK, thanks for the advice - I was assuming a lot of the good deals were for current customers - is your deal 18 months? I don't wish to be tied in to a two year contract...
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No, Mine is 24 months but I see no reason why you wouldn't be able to do the same thing with a 18 month contract.
The 18 month equivalent of my plan is £30 a month.
I would change but like I said in previous post, I cant afford the £80 to finish off my contract till July and then another £25 a month from April so would cost me extra £80 to change over early and no point in waiting for July as by that time a new fone would be out.
Man, the process of getting one of these babies stateside is long and winding.
This thread is pointless, I just want to update the progress of my lumia 800s coming to America.
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Man, the process of getting one of these babies stateside is long and winding.
This thread is pointless, I just want to update the progress of my lumia 800s coming to America.
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that is pretty funny, i thought the lumia 800 isnt coming to the us
It's special order.
It will come to the US if you order one from overseas; but Nokia isn't sending any over to US retail outlets.
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Man, the process of getting one of these babies stateside is long and winding.
This thread is pointless, I just want to update the progress of my lumia 800s coming to America.
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You realize you've just broadcast your delivery address, name, and other interesting bits on the interwarble, right ?
Onoez, I've broadcast my name and my aunts address online. Scary.
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It's special order.
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I didnt know you can special order. Does the phone come with American charger or not?
I dont believe so, I'll let you know tomorrow or Friday when I get it. If not I have enough chargers lying around.
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I dont believe so, I'll let you know tomorrow or Friday when I get it. If not I have enough chargers lying around.
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lucky you i am going to have to wait until the nokia phones drop in america and they will probably have the stupid carrier logo
Are you a developer by chance? There's a work-around that someone posted.
Sadly, the poor thing hasn't seen anything but the inside of a box. Not exactly how I hope to see the world. LMAO.
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Sadly, the poor thing hasn't seen anything but the inside of a box. Not exactly how I hope to see the world. LMAO.
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all is well. In 24 hours it won't even see the inside of a pocket for a few days.
May I ask where you bought it and how much you paid?
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May I ask where you bought it and how much you paid?
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to be honest, I paid nothing. I got it based on my developer status.
You are just rubbing it in our faces
But that is okay maybe I can wait at the doorstep and pretend to be you. mouahahahahaaaaaaa.
They're giving 25k away to developers. It's not tough to get one but I feel I'd be betraying Nokia if I explained my means of doing so. It was legitimate, but I feel people would be advantageous and try and rip them off.
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to be honest, I paid nothing. I got it based on my developer status.
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What apps have you developed?
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What apps have you developed?
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It's offered as a compliment if you are a Symbian developer willing to ...
Honestly, I'm new to developing for WP7, however I sent a beta of our new RPG to them (its complete aside from graphical stuff) and they offered to send me a lumia as a developer device.
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Honestly, I'm new to developing for WP7, however I sent a beta of our new RPG to them (its complete aside from graphical stuff) and they offered to send me a lumia as a developer device.
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thats actually pretty sick man! so this thing has to be CDMA device then if you ordered it from over seas... honestly if i am going to try one of these wp7 phones out, i would like it to be the best one available. i think it would be a difficult task to get one of these activated on sprint, however.
as title says.they told me 11th April
same here, told me on the phone the 7th but my email confirmation says the 11th.
Also the 11th for my order with dialaphone. Seems like everyone got the same date. Still if it comes sooner then that's great.
11th for me too.
Mine says 11th too, shows credit check passed. They've also taken payment for the handset.
this is mainly due to bank holiday weekends ofcourse. Never mind few days more will not kill you.
Tad confused now, found this on their FB page.
Dialaphone Hi Mike, Thanks for your post. The expected delivery date for all HTC One X handsets is the 12th April. Let me know if you have any further questions and have a great day. Cheers, Espi.
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11th for me as well on the Vodafone contract. Don't mind waiting a few extra days but would be nice to get it before Easter holidays, doubt that will happen!
It may possibly come earlier.
This late date might be for the stats as proof they have 'exceeded customers' expectations' by delivering earlier than promised. Who knows, it may have a 'stretch target' to exceed delivery times to qualify for a bonus.
On the other hand, they might be telling the truth
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Tad confused now, found this on their FB page.
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They told me the 12th on Twitter as well, but all our order pages say the 11th.
Think they are simply covering their backs in case of holiday delays.
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They told me the 12th on Twitter as well, but all our order pages say the 11th.
Think they are simply covering their backs in case of holiday delays.
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Good point. Would love it to come early
Im going to give them a phone and see what they say,
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Im going to give them a phone and see what they say,
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Ask about beats headphones with o2 phones please
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Ask about beats headphones with o2 phones please
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couldnt confirm if they were sending it earlier than the 11th and also wouldnt confirm what headphones will be in the box
she was a bit rude, im guessing shes been pestered for information off of us
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couldnt confirm if they were sending it earlier than the 11th and also wouldnt confirm what headphones will be in the box
she was a bit rude, im guessing shes been pestered for information off of us
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cheers pal
thanks! i feel better now since i can't pay until then. i was already planning to pay extra for next day shipping. it stills says pre-order on Negri Electronics, so it's probably the same date for them.
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couldnt confirm if they were sending it earlier than the 11th and also wouldnt confirm what headphones will be in the box
she was a bit rude, im guessing shes been pestered for information off of us
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They have probably been given a script and their calls will be listened to and QC'd to check they stick to it. I suspect the first we will hear if its an earlier date is an email saying its shipping.
so, after paying vodafone to bring my commitment date earlyer so i can upgrade, i went through dialaphone purely because voda was asking far too much,
so i went for a white one x voda upgrade
free handset
htc media link
£31 pm 300 mins / unlim texts/1gb data
delivery i was told would be the 7th. that was today at lunch i made the order,
i was waiting for the s3 but im impatient, owning
hero/desire/desire z/desire hd/ to my current nexus s with custom rom. i wanted to go for this handset and canny wait,
purchased my screen protecters already,in car kit,home dock tooo,
sorry to ramble on lol, cheers,
I ordered my One X through Dialaphone almost 2 weeks ago now, I did call and speak to a gent just before ordering and he said they where due them in on the 7th, which if your not aware is Good Friday, if this is true then they probably won't ship till the following Tuesday after Easter Monday. That would make delivery date the 11th which is what everyone's order probably does say!
I live in hope that they may come in a day earlier and MAYBE come on the Friday/Saturday but it is unlikely so I am just banking on the 11th, itll be far less disppointing that way
I don't know why companies like HTC choose such a stupid time to release handsets. They could have chose any week, instead they choose Easter week. So annoying, lol.
But you are right, all these conspiracy theories about the phones being shipped late due to branding are probably all a load of crap. It's just the lack of days available to deliver due to the holidays that is causing the delays.
It's still not to say obviously that some phones could be branded, but lets hope not.
so, last i heard sprint was pushing back the in-store release date. Has anyone seen one in a store yet?
No I went an hr ago and they didn't even have any advertisement for it or even the test units or dummy units the guy said some time next week they will get em -_____-
went there a couple minutes ago, pushed back by about aweek :/
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damn, i guess it doesn't matter much for me since my release date is the 1st of july. it better be ready by then.
I went by on Wednesday and the guy said it will be pushed back to next week, hopefully Monday.
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I called my local store and they said to call back Wednesday and then they might have an idea of when they are getting stock.
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damn, i guess it doesn't matter much for me since my release date is the 1st of july. it better be ready by then.
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Same here. I want to at least have time to mess around with it in the store before I get it.
Only a handful of stores got them in today, and they were supposedly LTE launch cities. The full release was pushed back to the 28th. I got mine in today, and all I can say is: EPIC.
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Same here. I want to at least have time to mess around with it in the store before I get it.
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you have the best sig but it was a lot better when your avatar was a hot girl!
I called my local store and they said next week too.
Yea I got a couple buddy's that work at my sprint store and the said they got a PO (purchase order) for the 29th
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Just wanted to update everyone on my visit to the Sprint store today. I went by the local Sprint store here earlier and I was also told that the release of the SGIII to them got pushed back. They told me that they could get them as early as next week, but there was a chance they would not get them until the 1st of July. At any rate, I went ahead and placed my order and got put on the waiting list. I was waiting patiently, yet anxiously, and expecting to hear the lady at the store tell me that I was like number 5 million to be on the list...LOL...Come to find out, I was only the 5th person to order one...which is good because that will mean I will get mine out of the first batch they get. Now I get to sit and impatiently wait...LOL
Cheers!
I went to the Sprint store today as well and they said they have to push it back because of Samsung not being able to meet up with the pre order demand. Then I pulled one of the reps over on the side and asked him if this has anything to do with Apple trying to sue Samsung for S-Voice. He replied, "Apple will do anything to delay the release of other phones."
So there is your reason for the delay ladies and gentlemen
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I went to the Sprint store today as well and they said they have to push it back because of Samsung not being able to meet up with the pre order demand. Then I pulled one of the reps over on the side and asked him if this has anything to do with Apple trying to sue Samsung for S-Voice. He replied, "Apple will do anything to delay the release of other phones."
So there is your reason for the delay ladies and gentlemen
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Um, sorry but doubtful. A sprint store guy wouldnt know more than a vast internet full of info leakers. (including ISN). Right now theres no indication that Apple has anything to do with anything. People got their 16 gb'ers today, and all signs point to other shipments soon or in progress. This smells exactly what it is, a supply problem.
I went by my Sprint store today. They didn't have the phone, but they had cases for the phone for sale...
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Same here I need to hold a product before I buy it. But my heart is set on it just need my mind set on it..... Plus I still need to decide color.... I like white but think it might get old after a while.... Plus then case options are limited compared to darker tones.
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damn, i guess it doesn't matter much for me since my release date is the 1st of july. it better be ready by then.
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Definitely
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same here, want to test it out ... kinda disappointed, wanted the UK version out here ... but lets see
I skipped pre ordering because I figured that it wasn't really worth tying up my money for a whole month. Kind of regretting it now. I've called every Sprint, Best Buy, and Radio Shack near me and no one has it on this side of Atlanta. Super bummed.
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Source?
teh roxxorz said:
Only a handful of stores got them in today, and they were supposedly LTE launch cities. The full release was pushed back to the 28th. I got mine in today, and all I can say is: EPIC.
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Sorry to disagree, but the consensus is that no stores, sprint or authoriized retailers, have gotten these in yet anywhere. If u know of any specific locations that have, however, of course I'd be interested to know.