“With a little over three hours to go before Apple opens up pre-orders for the iPhone 5, the company’s online storefront, as well as AT&T’s entire site, has gone down in preparation for what is expected to be an onslaught of traffic,” AppleInsider notes.
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Midnight here in fl. I’m one of the dummy’s gonna wait till 3am to order. If I’m lucky. I need my iPhone back. My replacement phone isn’t cutting it. Gonna be a lot of red bull tomorrow.
Steve woke me at 2:12 central..grabbed my 4 and ordered the 5..and went right back to bed.
This place is a ghost town. No fellow apple fan bois? Just put my daughter to bed and trying to keep my eyes open. Gotta alarm here in my iPad Incase. 😉
I’m here 😄
Only 10 pm though. Just walked the dog with a Hoyo de monterey Excalibur #1, now finishing it up on the porch while searching for cases for the iPhone 5 on my iPad.
Any luck finding cases? I didn’t think any would be out yet except for apple. But now thinking about it, I guess it’s Been
Leaked for a few weeks so if they took the gamble and made some on a leak, they are gonna make some money. Guess that’s what I’ll do for a bit. I’m a bumper guy. Don’t like my iPhone all covered and hiding the sleekness.
http://www.maclife.com/article/iphone/nows_good_time_any_buy_case_your_iphone_5
I like he Kensington ones so far. I dont like the big bulky cases either.
When the store opens I’ll see what apple is selling, may not buy one for a few weeks though. I’ll grab a screen protector somewhere and keep looking for a case. I like my case I have on my 4S right now, would like a similar one for the 5.
My brother in law found this case at Verizon, I think I paid $8 for it while he paid $30 lol. It works great for hands free FaceTime at my desk.
Must be nice to live on or by the west coast. Not for the time reason in paticular. Wifey and I went to Burbank two years ago for our second anniversary. I loved it. If she didn’t have so much family here we’d prolly move over that way. Not in LA though. One of those outskirt places. Shes a RN and they get paid extremly well every where but really in cali. Here in Florida it 100+ heat everyday (except 3 maybe 4 months). Miserable. Sweet but small winters.
Hi I’m down here in FL as well and hate it. Fortunately though I’m not stuck here year round. You have my sympathy. Not much going on this board here at the moment. Surprising, lots of people on this coast must have their alarm clocks set. If I weren’t an insomniac I would sleep right through and wait til later! Not too much longer for the night owls here!
My wife and I make sure to get outta state once a year. It’s not enough but it helps. Some people pay big bucks to come to Tampa/Orlando/Daytona/ specially Miami. I live in Tampa/st Pete area and every place here is the same. Hot and humid. I’ll pay big bucks to leave for a week. But I guess that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
I have my alarm set but am determined to stay up. I’m just hoping it won’t be like every other launch and take mad times trying to order. I’ll be frustrated till 5am and have to wake up by 830. But it only comes once a year. So it is what it is. Almost like the crazy people on black Friday. This is probably how they feel. Ok, I’ve done it once. But it was for a 55inch led tv for under $1500. Who could blame me. It was a few years back though. Now they’re all about that price. Even cheaper
Move to the paradise of Houston, TX. At least, that is the bill of goods that Sam Houston and company sold to a lot of unsuspecting people. In truth, it is hot in Houston most of the year and extremely humid the vast majority of the time, even in winter. The mosquitos, fire ants, hurricanes, and flooding only add to Houston’s southern charm. And the on;y decent beaches in the state are along the southern coast towards Mexico. You need to go a long way to avoid the mud from the Mississippi River. I have been to various parts of Florida, and I believe that Houston weather is generally worse.
honestly, I am not interested in iphone 5 because of a lack of features what I wanted. but I really love new ipod touch. right now, apple online store is offline to prepare for preorder. I can’t wait to get new ipod touch. my older 2nd Gen. ipod touch has been suffered from performance. it became very sluggish and response just kills me.
Curious what features were missing?
Yeah I love the “lack of features” argument and they never say what those all-important, deal-breaking, imperative, can’t-live-without, missing features are. Oh well more to enjoy for the rest of us.
I have the 2nd g iPod touch to. it’s slow as hell. Like 5 apps and 1000 songs. Lots of room left but it’s just slow. The new ones are looking good for sure. I, like a few other thought they should start at a 16 gig @ $199-$249. But they went straight to $299. Still not bad for all it can do though.
I’m grabbing the new nano. Bluetooth baby!!!!!
I did some measurements, the iPhone 5 is roughly 3/8″ taller than the 4S, and similar size difference between the nano 4th gen (or is it 5th that has the camera?) and the new nano, except smaller.
I like the touch, but I have an iPhone… I wear the 6th gen nano when I listen to music anyway so the touch is out. I need a smaller iPod instead of a phone size iPod.
Going to miss the clip though…
it was the 2g touch that got me hooked to idevices. Just like the 3G at the time. Since then it’s been on. Every iPhone release. Every year i sell my iphone on CG. Usually AFTER I got my new one. I use to baby my touch. Now I leave it in my hot ass car all day connected to my radio. Been using it like crazy for a week since i sold my 4s. Battery life and sounds like a champ. Just so damn sluggish. I prolly won’t spring for another iPod as long as I have the iphone. Have the arm strape for the gym. Though the smallness of the nanos are looking convenient. Specially what it is on price point. $150. And being the iPhones got a bit bigger. Smaller is better when hittin weights or cardio
Ha I have a 2g nano. Battery life maybe 3 hours. Even at the time it only could do like 5 hours or some shit. Rambling here. Another hour.
Get a $49 Shuffle for workouts – small, cheap, does the job. 2GB is more than sufficient. And you won’t feel that bad if it gets damaged, lost, or stolen. If you want more functionality than that, then you can step up to the nano, as you discussed.
On vacation in Hawaii, early bird special!
who’s hitting apple site, who’s hitting carrier site? keeping my fingers crossed on apple access. first stop for me.
Apple first, if they let me get the discount then I buy from apple, if not… I have to go through AT&T.
The AT&T store said I may not get the discount online… Either apple or AT&T. If neither work, it’s 10am in store where I’ll be purchasing.
I had to wait a little bit to get the 4S so I’m not exactly in the full discount for the 5 yet, but I do qualify for a discount… $649 for the 64gb instead of $399.
I’ll sell the 4s once I get my 5, so it won’t be as much out of pocket in the end. And unless the next iPhone is a huge update…. Which I doubt, I’ll keep the 5 and skip next gen iPhone. The 5 is what I wanted last year (didn’t we all?) only got the 4S cause of Siri and I sold my 4 for $325 the day after I got the 4S 🙂
I’ve been wanting this extra half inch since the 4s. I was so sure they were going to. So yea this was more like what I was expecting last year as well. Better late then never.
That’s what she said…
I actually DID see that coming!
ALL over your…
Well you cant say “its not the size of the phone but the motion of the ocean”. But I half inch could be a deal breaker in many things.
AT&T must be getting slammed. Still trying to upgrade on their business site. Ugh
It’s 3:01 AM EST. Umm, hello Apple?
At&T has crashed already
um… yeah… 12:05 am PDT and the store is not open. Is it just me?
Nope!
if you have the apple store app on any idevice go though there. they are up and running. just got mine
Thanks for that! Have the Apple Store in Safari, but it’s still down, and I’m on hold with AT&T, but I just placed my order with the Apple Store App! Fabulous!
That was the fastest upgrade ever. Got in at 11:59pm and out at 12:00am.
The store is up online since 11:59PST at least when connecting from Upland, CA.
In SFO. Apple Store still “be right back” at 0009…
??? Hello apple.com and att.com??? Anyone else up on those? It is 3:10est.
At&t is still in the crash mode. Disgusted
Got it! Apple.com
done. used Apple Store app on my iPhone. online store still down.
Apple and ATT down in Safari, however Firefox and Apple Store App up and running!
ha thats crazy. just tried on firefox, safari, and chrome and firefox is the only one. apple in their crazy ways
i can get all the way to the end… but apple won’t let me ship to a different address….
or maybe its AT&T.
FedEx will drive right past my house and not even attempt.. they make me go to the damn hub every time the next day, which would be monday…. HATE fedex.
going to have to go to AT&T in store tomorrow.
i used the appstore app, all done. can’t wait for my 64gig to arrive!!!
Make sure your bill is paid up!
You can log in to AT&T via My Account and it shows iPhone 5 as an upgrade option. When you try to execute it goes to “There was a problem with your request”
Not even (T) can handle the traffic in the middle of the night.
go to apple.com!
apple.com gives me the multi language we’ll be back message.
att gives me the error above.
the apple store app works… but will not allow me to ship the phone to work where someone can sign for it… FedEx will not deliver to my house unless i stand in the road and stop his pathetic lazy ass. makes me drive across town to the hub every time…
Sweet!!! No need to wait for at&t at apple.com! My iPhone is reserved and Apple will email me later after the crush to complete my order! Coming next Friday!
apple store app as well for me. didnt see any bumpers though. was ready to buy one
Well, now we know… they still can’t handle the demand for the new phones. Website can’t process the orders, phone numbers say that they are at capacity and to please call back.
I’m going to bed (should have done that in the first place).
use firefox
12:16 – App store still down. AT&T site, down. Verizon, got in, ordered 2 phones, done in 10 minutes. Sweet!
(Moving to Verizon from AT&T – since iPhone 1 – Att still only has EDGE in my area after 6 years! Unforgiveable. No LTE with Verizon, but at least good 3G)
GO TO APPLE.COM, APPLE WILL RESERVE YOUR iPHONE AND CONTACT YOU LATER ONCE AT&T IS UP. YOU WILL HAVE 24 HOURS TO COMPLETE YOUR ORDER THEN.
Store opened for me at 3:10 AM EST, and finished order by 3:22 AM EST.
I just ordered mine on apple.com! Easy. Few hiccups for a few seconds but otherwise easy. Good luck all! Done at 3:20est.
It seems the best way is with the apple store app on an IOs device. neither apple site or att site would load for me. apple store app was super simple. it took 2 min and order done.
The apple store app on my iPhone worked for me too. It says a phone has been reserved and they will email for details.
Success @ Apple Store 10 minutes after midnight PDT. Now, the wait.