“With some locations already sold out, AT&T is beginning to sell customers on units from the second wave of iPhone 3G shipments,” MacNN reports.
“With sources noting that ‘many stores across the country’ have already sold out of their launch stock, the company is now offering pre-orders through a ‘direct fulfillment process,'” MacNN reports.
“Should a person pick this option, they will be required to pay for the phone and will be notified when an iPhone 3G arrives at the store for pickup,” MacNN reports. “AT&T is telling customers that they can expect their new iPhone 3Gs within 3-5 days.”
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But it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine. 
The new iPhone is like the cube. It’s very pretty, but useless. It will be a flop. You heard it here. iCal me. It’s true. Ballmer said so.
Rewind and replay every negative statement from every manufacturer and/or “expert” made during the past 18 months.
‘Nuff said.
I was told that when i went to an ATT store this evening, that sucks!!
Ha, I’d like to see how many Extinct were sold out. They keep bragging about running out because of massive numbers of buyers snatching them up. iPhone just slammed dunked them.
It’s unfortunate that headlines for the moment will be about the activation issues. The media’s been frothing at the mouth all day.
We have sort of become a nation of whiners.
Oh how I loathe that they don’t tell you they are sold out until you finish waiting in line and finally make it into the store.
Just got in line at the 5th Ave. store in NYC. There are a few hundred people waiting in line. According to Apple it will take me two hours. I can’t wait and this is my second iPhone.
I was told they would have more tomorrow morning at a local ATT store. The guy did not seem sincere about it and this news backs it up, so I’m planning to drive a little further and go to an Apple store instead. I sure hope they have them or my “get it Saturday and avoid the rush” plans are shot.
“We have sort of become a nation of whiners.”
You can’t say that, you’ll be branded as a racist.
actually your probably SOL. I called my apple store and talked with 2 out of 4 local AT&T;stores and they were all out. all of them.
I think Apple actually planned this partially. The delivery system has a few hundred thousand sitting on docks to phase the phones out over days instead of hours to help alleviate some of the server issues they expected.
Because I was given a choice of which models I wanted instead of we only have white 8 gigs left deal. This way more customers get a choice. we shall see how it works he told me 3-4 days, 7 max.
This seems bigger than the original iPhone intro from a year ago. I wonder if we will ever see comparison numbers of the first iPhone weekend sales vs the second coming. I remember some ATT stores running out over the first weekend, but it seems like everyone is running out on the first day! Phenomenal. Sure glad I am happy enough with my gen one version that I wasn’t hot to get one this weekend.
Just got back from the Apple store-walked in at 5pm,walked out at 7:20pm with my 16GB iPhone.
They only had 8GB black(about 25) and about 30 white 16GB-at least out for display.
Woodlands TX crew at the Apple store are awesome-gave me a cookie and a bottle of water, stephanie that helped me was great!
Rogers – still sold out, still no pre-orders allowed
I waited til 3PM PST to update my iPhone (1st gen) to 2.0 software and it worked perfectly.
I love the new apps!
I live in Western Hawaii on the Big Island. There was a line outside the AT&T;store in Kailua this morning. That never happens around here…until today.
This phone is going to break records…as soon as they get the activation fixed.
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@jack
Make sure to keep us posted, See if they can give you an estimate for how many they have sold today.
my at&t;store told me that they only got 40 of em…. hum…. He told me that last year with the new release he got 180 of em. Now you tell me…. This sounds like Jobs creating hype. He is sooooo good at it!
And all these people standing in line, waiting to be %&$*, are the reason I still can’t get my on-line e-mail? Just how long does Apple think it will take them to recover from this Microsoftian lack of promised service? Getting people to wait in order to purchase something just boosts the hype, having to wait for a service you’ve already paid for just builds frustration.
GRrrr!
Are your mobileme mails syncing with your mac? I am only using @mac.com on my my, but did notice under alias in the preferences on my mac it also has @me.com corresponding to it. I receive mails fine on my mac, but when I delete them they do not delete on the webmail – I’ve tried resyncing and every step. Thoughts?
Something’s fishy around MobileMe’s failure today. On the back end, everything seems to be working flawlessly for people (backing up, retreiving data, all of which require massive data to be moved to and from servers). However, the website and web version of it fails so far every time for me. I am able to sync flawlessly between mac, iPhone and the cloud, but I haven’t yet been able to log into the web app. I signed up this morning during the whole mess, and my registration went as smoothly as it would’ve on any other day. Something’s not right here.
“ron
“We have sort of become a nation of whiners.”
You can’t say that, you’ll be branded as a racist.”
hey ron, once again take your ignorant right wing crap and fold it till it is all sharp corners and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
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nothing to see here folks, move along, just doing my job….
9:18 CDT and can’t find the 2.0 update on itms. Any clues? Or just wait a couple of days.
Man what a day. It was chaos until about 1pm pacific when the activation servers went back up. It was bizarre standing in an apple store as things ground to a halt for several hours, employees selling iphones, only to have them sit connected to itunes and erroring out and people wandering home dazed and confused holding a shiny white brick (white was the color of the day, take my word) with a promise that at some point the servers will be back up. By 5 pm phones were being sold in 5 to 10 minutes a piece for iphone v1 upgrades. If you live near an Apple store, I guarantee they will have this down to science this weekend and you will walk in and out with no hassles.
MikeR,
I think you’ll have to wait a bit. Here on the East Coast, I’ve been trying all day to get the update, always to no avail. I’m hoping maybe it’ll poke through some time in the middle of the night.
Also, my iMac automatically converted to MobileMe at some point; however, I can’t get my iBook (which I turned on this evening) to do it.
Oh well…I’ll just be patient. I don’t have any mission critical business operations or anything like that depending on it. (I’m just bored and want some new toys…)
MobileMe Web apps are working just fine though… (go figure)