“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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Done via Apple website. Very slow response on a cable internet connection.
Slate 16GB AT&T.
Good Night & Good Luck.
Use the Apple Store App on your iPhone. It allows you to pre order the iphone 5:)
Smoothest launch day pre-order ever! Bravo Apple, well done! Apple.com was super responsive the entire process. Placed order at 3:20a Eastern.
Just ordered two (only one at a time allowed) without a hitch. Smoothest process of the four I have gone through.
Got 2 pretty darn fast from Apple.com AT&T 16 and 32 gig. At&t site bombed on me after it let me long in…
apple.com hasn’t worked for me since 3:01 (3:30 now) Keep getting maintenance in progress on both att + apple. sigh…
Interesting that some, including me, still can’t get into apple store all night, now 12:35. Wonder why some can and others say no problem! I was able to order smoothly through Verizon, so no big deal, but niether AT&T’s site or Apples has been reachable here for me in Arizona.
Just tried the Firefox option. Worked like a champ. Had to have them delivered, no option to pick up at store. Wonder why?
Tried Firefox and tried to log in via Business Premier. No luck site is down crashed big time been tring for 45 minutes and have no other options
apple.com ISN’T working but the Apple Store App on the iPhone or iPad IS!
Finally got 64 gig through ATT (got close on Apple a couple times but kept bombing). Hope I don’t get charged 50 times with all the clicking I did 🙂
got mine using Apple Store app. took less than 5 mins. good luck all.
Up now and I ordered min!
Ordered a black 64 GB and a white 16 GB iPhone. No problems for me at the Apple Store.
Let me guess, the white 16 was for her?
Ordered two from AT&T. One for my son, his birthday was last month, I told him to wait.
Mine was today (13th) Happy Birthday to me, and my new iPhone 5.
Looks like Apple and their cell partners have their act together this (launch) time.
For the record.
I didn’t order mine on day one, it’s nighttime.
3:00 am Central. Ordered on apple.com quickly, but already shows available to ship in 2 weeks. Damnit, I set the alarm an hour too late. Should have been 2am central. No apple stores anywhere near here.
Order placed by 1am pst. Ship times already slipped to “2 weeks”.
2 Weeks!
If you blinked, you missed it. The iPhone 5 sold out online in less than an hour. Ship times are now at 2 weeks.
OK – so I woke up at 3 and placed my order. 2 weeks – arrives within 5 days of shipping. So, now I’m screwed for my Gazelle Oct 1 deadline to get my nice high quote they gave me a month ago. Also, I found the Apple site a little screwy – you could only place one carrier activated phone per order so I had to place two orders. Seemed strange.
OOOP One Order One Phone. Keeps things clean and simple for the carriers.
Can’t wait! Hawaii time hurry up!
2:35AM west coast and shipping has already slipped to TWO FREAKING WEEKS until the product is AVAILABLE to ship, then actually shipping 5 DAYS after that.
Fricking east coast. They must be selling a zillion of them on Apple’s store.
Yep, 2 weeks. Right before I clicked the capacity I wanted, it still said the 21st. Right after I clicked it, it said 2 weeks prior to selecting a carrier. Looks like I JUST missed it. This was at about 3:45 EST.
I placed my order without any hazzle.
I did the order through Apple Store app vs. website around 3:44am as a friend who was working was checking it for me to go up & called me to wake me up to order it. What time did it actually go back up/live anyways? Around 3:25am EST perhaps? Just wonder how far back I’m in the que… I don’t get comments about features either – maybe these ppl own stock in Sam-ung or on their board or wanting to possibly short Apple stock… Anyways whatever… Tried and true each rebision improves upon the last… I don’t get the stealing part either – how many of these court cases so far has Apple won compared to lost (though some admittedly still can be appealed)… Please take care and hope ya all have a good weekend (even those anti iPhone 5’ers et. al. you ppl. have enough to deal with re: consequences already but even an old iPhone is better than some of the garbage out there… (I am thankful some salesperson cannot dupe me into buying something different…)
Ordered painlessly in a 3 minute period around 3:35am EDT using the iPhone Apple Store app.
Apple site open again with 2 weeks for shipment