Looking To Score An iPhone 3G S From AT&T This Friday? Not So Fast…

Posted on 13 June 2009 by


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Earlier today I received the above email from my “friends” at AT&T. It confirmed my pre-order of the iPhone 3G S and the hope that it will arrive “as early as” this Friday. It provided a way to check the status and, when I did, it revealed this…

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Thing was… I had ALREADY received a confirmation of my order and this didn’t provide me with any new information. So why the email?

Simple, according to the BoyGeniusReport the initial stock of iPhone 3G Ss available to AT&T are going… going… gone and won’t be restocked for up to two weeks. (Apple has not shared any availability information at this time). According to the post…

To make a long story short, if you did not pre-order an iPhone 3G S from AT&T yet, (we’re not talking about Apple because we don’t have information on their pre-ordering/stock levels, etc) your iPhone 3G S won’t be shipping to you/your store until “7-14 days” after the order date. It seems that all AT&T’s pre-order stock is depleted leaving only iPhone 3G Ss for dying-in-line purchasing on this coming Friday, and all pre-orders going forward won’t be fulfilled until after the June 19th launch date.

So if you pre-ordered an iPhone through AT&T you can look (hopefully) forward to picking it up or its delivery on Friday. If, however, you were planning to get up early and wait for one… not happening.

Why… it’s deja vu all over again!

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen

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  • mchinsky

    And people whine about how hard it was to get a Pre…