pre orders Archive

  • Pre-ordered your iPhone 4 at Radio Shack? Sucks to be you – UPDATE

    Pre-ordered your iPhone 4 at Radio Shack? Sucks to be you – UPDATE

    We're getting reports from some folks who tried to work around the massive fail-up during last week's pre-order fiasco and pre-order from Radio Shack, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart. The reports aren't good. It seems that most stores will not have them in stock tomorrow and that you should probably check with your pre-order store before you head down. One reader, DW, writes:
    Hello, I just wanted to let you guys know that I spoke with the Manager of the RadioShack store that I pre-ordered my iPhone from and he let me know that none of the customers who pre-ordered an iPhone 4 would be getting one from his store tomorrow (Thursday).

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  • iPhone 4 pre-orders now shipping

    iPhone 4 pre-orders now shipping

    We're still trying to puzzle out the mystery of why some iPhone 4 pre-orders have been randomly canceled, but there's good news for the rest of the 600,000 people who managed to get past Apple's ordering issues last week: the newest iPhone is now shipping. We haven't gotten our ship notification email yet, but judging from our tip jar plenty of other people have -- we'll see if anyone's lucky enough to score an early delivery.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    iPhone 4 pre-orders now shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple randomly canceling some iPhone pre-orders? Update: AT&T pre-orders too?

    Apple randomly canceling some iPhone pre-orders? Update: AT&T pre-orders too?

    We haven't verified exactly what's going on here, but we've gotten several tips tonight from people who've received an iPhone 4 pre-order cancellation email from Apple saying that their order couldn't be authorized. That sounds like an AT&T authorization problem to us, and given the the litany of problems that Apple and AT&T had all week dealing with the huge number of pre-orders, we can't say we're too surprised to hear that the chaos continues. Here's the email:
    Dear Customer,

    We were unable to complete the authorization process for your iPhone order. As a result, we had to cancel your iPhone order. To complete the purchase of your iPhone, please visit an Apple Retail Store or an AT&T company-owned retail store.

    We apologize for this inconvenience.

    Sincerely,
    Apple Online Store Team
    Uh, yeah. We're obviously looking into the situation, and we'll let you know what we find out.

    Update: We're hearing that some people are getting cancellations from AT&T, as well -- curiouser and curiouser.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Apple randomly canceling some iPhone pre-orders? Update: AT&T pre-orders too? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple iPhone 4 pre-orders now sold out?

    Apple iPhone 4 pre-orders now sold out?

    We have no idea how this happened given the insane problems Apple and AT&T have had processing iPhone 4 pre-orders today, but lots of people (including us) are seeing a July 2 ship date at Apple's online store, or about a week after the next-gen iPhone launches on June 24. Frankly, that's amazing -- we can only imagine the kind of sustained rush it took to cause a sellout of a product virtually no one was actually able to order. So that's Apple and AT&T both sold out -- at this point it's looking like standing in line somewhere come launch day is going to be your best bet, but we'll let you know if we hear any better news.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Apple iPhone 4 pre-orders now sold out? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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