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The_Inquisitor said:
I wonder if I can cancel my pre-order and just go to my local at&t corporate store and pick one up.
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Did you preorder from att? If so I would say just take a stab at it, worst thing would be they say no. That is if you have a store near you, I wouldn't waste too much time on a coin flip situation.
 
taylor910 said:
Did you preorder from att? If so I would say just take a stab at it, worst thing would be they say no. That is if you have a store near you, I wouldn't waste too much time on a coin flip situation.
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It would be on way home from work. Not a big deal.
 
After being in South Africa for 2 days and having to use a crappy Nokia, I really miss the awesome Iphone UI.

Never realized how great it is compared to some of the competition :lol
 
dkeane said:
WOOO Just got charged by Apple, hope it gets to me by Friday, I'm sick of waiting.
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Yeah finally. I doubt it will be here by Friday, but here's hoping.

I saw two of them on the Subway this morning, the two guys were literally sitting across from each other. Pretty nice looking screens.
 
borghe said:
direct sunlight use sucks on ALL of these phones, and pretty much and LCD device and definitely any OLED device. Arguing about which one looks better in the sunlight is like arguing about which ugly girl your going to dance with.

I don't know... this thread is just kind of obnoxious. It's like 30% people talking about iphone 4, and 70% split between you posting every negative piece of info from every article you can find on the interwebs and marty nit picking every feature of the phone and supposing how apple could have done it differently. at least marty has his iphone.. you seem to be using this thread simply to convince yourself not to get one and being as vocal about it as possible.

at this point get one or don't, but seriously, stop bludgeoning the horse carcass already. Buy it and if you don't like it return it and move on. If you're not going to buy one, then stop trolling the thread. but just dropping by every 10-15 posts to link to every controversial article (or snippet) you can find on the net is getting kind of old.
as for what you posted, like I said.. yes, direct sunlight sucks on my wife's 4. And it sucks on my 3GS also. and it sucks on her laptop, and on my PSP and DS. Welcome to the wonderful world of backlit digital displays.
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I totally agree.
 
built in GPS for me is a game changer. Well, half of one. The Places feature of iPhoto and OS4 would be the other half. For instance, now instead of searching for pics from the bar from a few months (or years) agoand just scrolling through pics, I can just go to Places, go to the bar, and see all the pics I've ever shot there. That's huge.

I just wish Apple would give us a way to do Faces on Windows.. I'll probably eventually get a Mac by next year.. but would REALLY like access to Faces now. :(
 
borghe said:
built in GPS for me is a game changer. Well, half of one. The Places feature of iPhoto and OS4 would be the other half. For instance, now instead of searching for pics from the bar from a few months (or years) agoand just scrolling through pics, I can just go to Places, go to the bar, and see all the pics I've ever shot there. That's huge.

I just wish Apple would give us a way to do Faces on Windows.. I'll probably eventually get a Mac by next year.. but would REALLY like access to Faces now. :(
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Google's Picasa has built-in face detection, have you tried that? Guess it wouldn't be ideal if you keep your photo archives on the iPhone, but if you move it all to the PC, then Picasa will be able to run through and intelligently tag all people.
 
borghe said:
built in GPS for me is a game changer. Well, half of one. The Places feature of iPhoto and OS4 would be the other half. For instance, now instead of searching for pics from the bar from a few months (or years) agoand just scrolling through pics, I can just go to Places, go to the bar, and see all the pics I've ever shot there. That's huge.

I just wish Apple would give us a way to do Faces on Windows.. I'll probably eventually get a Mac by next year.. but would REALLY like access to Faces now. :(
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As of now I don't geotag my collection of photos. Aperture really doesnt have a good way of syncing with Flickr.

Can anyone tell me if lightroom will sync with my flickr galleries should I add comments or geo-locating info to my pictures?
 
iphone geotags by default. not even sure if you can turn it off. geotagging is held in the exif data, so as long as whatever site/system/app you are using either doesn't destroy or perfectly copies over the exif data, geotags should remain intact.

Minsc said:
Google's Picasa has built-in face detection, have you tried that? Guess it wouldn't be ideal if you keep your photo archives on the iPhone, but if you move it all to the PC, then Picasa will be able to run through and intelligently tag all people.
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thanks. I wasn't aware of this. Though in the focus of this thread I was referring to a compatible tool that coudl sync to the iphone (which for Windows doesn't exist).
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Keeping hardware controls consistent is stressing the details.

What should they do when the phone is in your pocket and you're listening to music?
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What part of YouTube and watching videos are you failing to read? I've said it a number of times now.
 
Charred Greyface said:
Wow, at this pace Apple will soon be having the camera market for dinner.
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Considering one of the biggest reasons I jumped on the quattro than just waiting it out like usual was the HD vid function so I wouldn't have to carry my Flip HD around anymore. Needless to say I've been really satisfied with the quality in comparison to the Flip. On top of that, the 4 takes decent pics while you're moving.
 
Marty Chinn said:
What part of YouTube and watching videos are you failing to read? I've said it a number of times now.
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problem to the buttons is that it's all relative. to some people it might be intuitive to keep the high volume on the right side. others it might make more sense to keep it on the left side. you start forcing people to guess how the volume controls act and it's a bad interface design.

I mean you are complaining about the controls and they are staying the same. Now imagine if Apple changed them to what you are saying, only in the opposite way of what you're saying because other people find the other direction more intuitive.

plain and simple, what you are talking about is a bad interface design. nothing more need to be said on it than that.

donkey show said:
Considering one of the biggest reasons I jumped on the quattro than just waiting it out like usual was the HD vid function so I wouldn't have to carry my Flip HD around anymore. Needless to say I've been really satisfied with the quality in comparison to the Flip. On top of that, the 4 takes decent pics while you're moving.
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I'll go one step further. I will go out to say it's the best pns camera and HD camcorder we own.... and that's taking into account the lack of zoom. The Rebel XT will still be used religiously, and I do plan on getting a good 3CCD 1080p24 camcorder. but yeah.. the days of Flip video and pns camera shooting are gone. the 4 makes them entirely irrelevant. if the 4 isn't good enough for what you need, then you are going to have to move to a DSLR or hd camcorder anyway.
 
borghe said:
problem to the buttons is that it's all relative. to some people it might be intuitive to keep the high volume on the right side. others it might make more sense to keep it on the left side. you start forcing people to guess how the volume controls act and it's a bad interface design.

I mean you are complaining about the controls and they are staying the same. Now imagine if Apple changed them to what you are saying, only in the opposite way of what you're saying because other people find the other direction more intuitive.

plain and simple, what you are talking about is a bad interface design. nothing more need to be said on it than that.
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I understand that side of the coin, but doesn't the current iPod Nano change its control wheel when you orientate it to the side? It would seem like a similar principle. I do see merit to both sides of the argument though. Although, heh would it be more confusing than how the home button functionality is starting to get? (Not that it's confusing to me, but having the home button growing in the number different behaviors in different scenarios is getting more complicated)

The only thing that's sorta getting to me is how Liu Kang and others seem stuck on this, what if you're moving, what if you're listening to music, what if you're doing none of the things that I specifically mentioned, etc in my original point. Clearly there are some who agree since people here and according to mrkgoo, he's seen others in favor of it. Like I said before, it's not that big of a deal and I was just curious if others felt that way.
 
Marty Chinn said:
I understand that side of the coin, but doesn't the current iPod Nano change its control wheel when you orientate it to the side? It would seem like a similar principle. I do see merit to both sides of the argument though. Although, heh would it be more confusing than how the home button functionality is starting to get? (Not that it's confusing to me, but having the home button growing in the number different behaviors in different scenarios is getting more complicated)
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no it doesn't. Apple is consistent in their hardware buttons not changing depending on orientation.
 
Marty Chinn said:
I understand that side of the coin, but doesn't the current iPod Nano change its control wheel when you orientate it to the side? It would seem like a similar principle. I do see merit to both sides of the argument though. Although, heh would it be more confusing than how the home button functionality is starting to get? (Not that it's confusing to me, but having the home button growing in the number different behaviors in different scenarios is getting more complicated)

The only thing that's sorta getting to me is how Liu Kang and others seem stuck on this, what if you're moving, what if you're listening to music, what if you're doing none of the things that I specifically mentioned, etc in my original point. Clearly there are some who agree since people here and according to mrkgoo, he's seen others in favor of it. Like I said before, it's not that big of a deal and I was just curious if others felt that way.
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yeah but on an ipod wheel you're still moving in the same direction as normal orientation; it's either clockwise or counterclockwise. with two separate buttons, you are changing up/down with left/right and that's confusing as shit.

also, i just realized that you can use voice control while listening via headphones. haha, that explains the reasoning behind "what time is it" to the possible commands..
 
borghe said:
I'll go one step further. I will go out to say it's the best pns camera and HD camcorder we own.... and that's taking into account the lack of zoom. The Rebel XT will still be used religiously, and I do plan on getting a good 3CCD 1080p24 camcorder. but yeah.. the days of Flip video and pns camera shooting are gone. the 4 makes them entirely irrelevant. if the 4 isn't good enough for what you need, then you are going to have to move to a DSLR or hd camcorder anyway.
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Wow. I don't think I would have gone that far as I think my Lumix is still a better PNS in regards to having proper zoom, better lens, etc. but I will agree with you that the 4 does give me less reasons to carry my Lumix around. The 4's auto focus and sensor are extremely impressive. I have a proper HD Sony Camcorder and a D70 as well, but the less I have to carry, the better.
 
not sure if it's mentioned, but i decry more the lack of icon rotation in the task switching dialog/media controls than the hardware buttons.
 
donkey show said:
Wow. I don't think I would have gone that far as I think my Lumix is still a better PNS in regards to having proper zoom, better lens, etc. but I will agree with you that the 4 does give me less reasons to carry my Lumix around. The 4's auto focus and sensor are extremely impressive.
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my problem with most mainstream pns cameras is that their zoom is minimal to being with, and their aperture is so low that any sort of telephoto pic you take is really going to be blurry or dark anyway. if I know I'm going to be in an environment either far away or in bad light I'll take my Rebel XT. If I'm not thinking that's going to be a concern and some of the shots I want are far away, 5MP is still large enough to take a good wide angle shot and crop the area you want for a 4x6 or so. myabe I'm being "a tad" drastic... but the small tradeoffs on the 4 are worth not having to carry around another device, that's all. If I do have to carry around another one, then it better be worth dragging out the Canon.

scorcho said:
not sure if it's mentioned, but i decry more the lack of icon rotation in the task switching dialog/media controls than the hardware buttons.
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heh.. agreed. I know why they didn't do a landscape fast switcher (uniformity and all), but yeah, the could at least rotate the icons and labels. :P
 
So has anyone else had this issue?

dyls said:
Is there a way to turn off the noise-canceling mic while using a headset? I was talking while driving yesterday with the phone sitting in the middle compartment, and I noticed a lot of extraneous noise. I picked it up and realized that the phone mic was picking up engine noise (and perhaps trying to cancel it?) which was mixing in with my voice. I had to either hold the phone or put it in my lap (where it promptly slid off onto the floor) to silence it. And even then, I would hear a very quick and slight echo effect as the secondary mic picked up my voice slightly after the main headset mic. It made my voice sound very robotic.

Any good way of dealing with this? I love the noise-canceling normally as it has really made calls clearer than on my old 3G, but it seems entirely unnecessary and in fact detrimental while using the headset.
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fireside said:
Might be me, but going by those pictures the iPhone 4’s screen looks far better than the 3GS.
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Chorazin said:
I was thinking the exact same thing....
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Ceres said:
I wouldn't say better but I can't really tell a difference besides the iPhone 4 being closer up. I'd just have to assume that based on an actual side by side the 3GS was determined to be better and that a photo simply doesn't show this well. The shiny part of his head certainly seems to reflect the least on the iPhone 4.
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neojubei said:
That's what I thought.
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Me too! When I first read the article I thought the pictures were arranged in descending order from best to worst. The shiny head (or sun?) does make a difference, and the rest of the review is well written and on point, so I'll take their word for it.

borghe said:
direct sunlight use sucks on ALL of these phones, and pretty much and LCD device and definitely any OLED device. Arguing about which one looks better in the sunlight is like arguing about which ugly girl your going to dance with.

as for what you posted, like I said.. yes, direct sunlight sucks on my wife's 4. And it sucks on my 3GS also. and it sucks on her laptop, and on my PSP and DS. Welcome to the wonderful world of backlit digital displays.
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Well sue me. I happy enough with using a DS outdoors and my laptop screen is matte so it's better than most. Yes, LCDs are generally poor in sunlight and will never be as readable as e-ink, but is it too much to hope that Apple at least made their next gen phone better, in this respect, than the one I have?

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borghe said:
direct sunlight use sucks on ALL of these phones, and pretty much and LCD device and definitely any OLED device. Arguing about which one looks better in the sunlight is like arguing about which ugly girl your going to dance with.

I don't know... this thread is just kind of obnoxious. It's like 30% people talking about iphone 4, and 70% split between you posting every negative piece of info from every article you can find on the interwebs and marty nit picking every feature of the phone and supposing how apple could have done it differently. at least marty has his iphone.. you seem to be using this thread simply to convince yourself not to get one and being as vocal about it as possible.

at this point get one or don't, but seriously, stop bludgeoning the horse carcass already. Buy it and if you don't like it return it and move on. If you're not going to buy one, then stop trolling the thread. but just dropping by every 10-15 posts to link to every controversial article (or snippet) you can find on the net is getting kind of old.
as for what you posted, like I said.. yes, direct sunlight sucks on my wife's 4. And it sucks on my 3GS also. and it sucks on her laptop, and on my PSP and DS. Welcome to the wonderful world of backlit digital displays.
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I totally agree.
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Oh, thanks guys. I'm not even in the Top 5 posters (6th :p) in this thread, with only 23 (24) comments in 920+, but damn you chose to notice me so. Sure I mention my plans to purchase (or not) the iPhone--but many other posters do that too. I generally try to post interesting/obscure news that I come across and be helpful with comments when a Gaffer asks a question. It's not my fault that the problems with the iPhone 4 are dominating the headlines right. *shrug* I'll "stop trolling" 'your' thread and won't disturb your blissful new iPhone bubble. You can burst it all own your own; it only takes one prick to do so and, from where I'm writing, I can see two.

For what it's worth, some other responses to posts I've made in iPhone threads over the past few days:

Mecha_Infantry said:
Thanks!!!
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Operations said:
Excellent news
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Odious Tea said:
Cannot. Wait.
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Anarchistry said:
fascinating.
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Odious Tea said:
Interesting read, thanks.
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LCfiner said:
Yeah, that Anandtech test was really great. love that site.
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giga said:
Great article, Anandtech always delivers.
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overkill/meltdown
 
So right now I am split between buying a used (january 10') 3GS or a brand new iPhone 4 at the end of July. Though, would it be good of me, bringing it with me for holiday in Asia? We'll probably be at a lot of oceans, pools and around sand and grass - while eating at restaurents made og bambus etc. I imagine there would be a lot of chances to actually drop it by accident. Would you bring a 3GS or 4 with you to a country with 30-40 degress on holiday? (as well to a football pitch playing soccer every day). I'm thinking along the lines of which would have the strongest strength, including cover on top.
 
Anastacio said:
So right now I am split between buying a used (january 10') 3GS or a brand new iPhone 4 at the end of July. Though, would it be good of me, bringing it with me for holiday in Asia? We'll probably be at a lot of oceans, pools and around sand and grass - while eating at restaurents made og bambus etc. I imagine there would be a lot of chances to actually drop it by accident. Would you bring a 3GS or 4 with you to a country with 30-40 degress on holiday? (as well to a football pitch playing soccer every day). I'm thinking along the lines of which would have the strongest strength, including cover on top.
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how long do you plan to keep this phone AFTER your holiday? more than one day? then get the iPhone 4.

AND, get some tough, full coverage case for it since you think it'll be roughed up on your trip.
 
Charred Greyface said:
Well sue me. I happy enough with using a DS outdoors and my laptop screen is matte so it's better than most. Yes, LCDs are generally poor in sunlight and will never be as readable as e-ink, but is it too much to hope that Apple at least made their next gen phone better, in this respect, than the one I have?
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It's at least as good, if not better than the 3GS in direct sunlight. You're wasting a lot of energy worrying about a non issue.
 
Anastacio said:
So right now I am split between buying a used (january 10') 3GS or a brand new iPhone 4 at the end of July. Though, would it be good of me, bringing it with me for holiday in Asia? We'll probably be at a lot of oceans, pools and around sand and grass - while eating at restaurents made og bambus etc. I imagine there would be a lot of chances to actually drop it by accident. Would you bring a 3GS or 4 with you to a country with 30-40 degress on holiday? (as well to a football pitch playing soccer every day). I'm thinking along the lines of which would have the strongest strength, including cover on top.
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Your biggest issue will probably be sand. It's coarse and gets everywhere. If you simply try to rub sand off a device, it will likely scratch it. Be careful about possibly getting sand under a case.
 
Technosteve said:
Then don't buy the phone. Unless you drop the thing on an edge it should be fine naked. But most of gaf have the butter fingers so get the otter box. The only way the iPhone won't get scratched is if they used AlON transparent armor or sapphire crystals with a diamond coating on the entire phone. Or build the phone out of what ever crocs are made off. If you drop something it will get damaged, if you rub something harder ten the glass and metal it will scratch.
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well I'd hope so. I already bought the phone. I just haven't opened it (primarily because I'm working remotely and am away from the computer I do all of my syncing to).

I was simply going by the comments here. 2 or 3 of our regulars have clearly stated that they have phantom scratches on the glass. what do you make of that? or are we saying that because someone on the internet said it, it must be fantasy? :-)

numble said:
To be fair, he's been a champion of naked electronics in the past:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20811494&postcount=8236
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indeed I have been. that was a commentary on objective truth and my findings on the resale market, not a commentary on my personal daily usage of my iPhones. people on Craigslist/eBay definitely pay more for "mint" used iPhones. during my iPhone experience, I've been pretty lazy. sometimes I'd put it in a holster, most of the time I'd just toss it in the pocket with the least stuff in it.

but now that I think about it...eBay/Craigslist folks maybe pay only $15-$20 over a phone with light scratches. so I guess I wouldn't actually recommend anyone pay a ton of money for a case unless they just really like its style, because paying more than $20-$30 seems to mean more investment than you'll get back. of course, if resale isn't your reason for buying a case, go crazy.
 
Dreams-Visions said:
never had a problem reading my 3G in direct sunlight.

different type of screen than the 3GS?
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I disagree, I just don't even bother to take out my 3G in sunlight. What were your brightness levels?

How long did it take for you guys to go from Prepared to Ship the phone to actually shipped. Hopefully it ships today, I want to fry my retinas. :(
 
Anastacio said:
So right now I am split between buying a used (january 10') 3GS or a brand new iPhone 4 at the end of July. Though, would it be good of me, bringing it with me for holiday in Asia? We'll probably be at a lot of oceans, pools and around sand and grass - while eating at restaurents made og bambus etc. I imagine there would be a lot of chances to actually drop it by accident. Would you bring a 3GS or 4 with you to a country with 30-40 degress on holiday? (as well to a football pitch playing soccer every day). I'm thinking along the lines of which would have the strongest strength, including cover on top.
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Yes, I call that home. Just get the 4 with a case and screen protector if you're worried.
 
Wellington said:
I disagree, I just don't even bother to take out my 3G in sunlight. What were your brightness levels?
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really? that's interesting. maybe medium brightness. it looks just fine. nothing like phones I used to own which weren't visible at all or my iPad which is almost impossible to see. I find my 3G is very easy to read. I purposely angle it to get sun to get max visibility out of it. I presumed the IPS on the new 4 wouldn't be as nice.

idk.
 
Wellington said:
I disagree, I just don't even bother to take out my 3G in sunlight. What were your brightness levels?

How long did it take for you guys to go from Prepared to Ship the phone to actually shipped. Hopefully it ships today, I want to fry my retinas. :(
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Did you order from Apple or AT&T?
 
thewesker said:
Less than 24 hours after ordering my iPhone, it has shipped. I shall have it tomorrow. Thanks AT&T! :D
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I hope that's a 16GB model. My 32gb phone that I ordered on 6/15 is still on backorder. >__<
 
Tobor said:
I'll be shooting and editing my Nephews birthday party on my iPhone next week. Should be a fun exercise.
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Bringing my Kodak 12MP C190 to SDCC, which took some great shots at a wedding I attended in April, but honestly debating using my iPhone 4 the whole way for photos and video. Heh.
 
Slacker said:
I hope that's a 16GB model. My 32gb phone that I ordered on 6/15 is still on backorder. >__<
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My 16GB is on backorder too I believe via Premier. I just think the majority of phones are now shipping to Apple stores/pre-orders.
 
The_Inquisitor said:
My 16GB is on backorder too I believe via Premier. I just think the majority of phones are now shipping to Apple stores/pre-orders.
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I ordered mine yesterday around 7:30 AM at my local AT&T corporate store. :D
 
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