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Sprint and Verizon iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Begin

Friday October 7, 2011 1:19 AM PDT by Arnold Kim

Pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S were supposed to kick off at 12:01 a.m. pacific. Both Verizon.com and Sprint.com websites became available just at that time for preorders, while Apple's and AT&Ts have not yet updated.

Apple's website is having some intermittent errors presumably due to the traffic. Sprint's pre-orders also seems to having some troubles while we've seen successful Verizon pre-orders already.

Top Rated Comments

kjp

187 months ago

Hurry up, Apple. I would like to go to sleep.

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

JustinDaigle

187 months ago

Actually, the preorder option is there for AT&T... just not working. ><

Ah well, screw tomorrow's classes. This is more important.

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

StuddedLeather

187 months ago

Hurry up, Apple. I would like to go to sleep.

Seriously! This Pacific Time doesn't work for the east coast lol.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

DarthVedder

187 months ago

Deja vu... :(

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

iwitch

187 months ago

Sprint on apple store:

At this time, we are only taking online iPhone orders for current Sprint customers upgrading a phone on an existing line. If you're a new customer, or simply want to add a new line to an existing account, please select this option and click "Continue".
There you'll see how and when an iPhone can be purchased at your local Apple Retail Store.

I just saw that too.

It would have been nice if that had been disclosed UP FRONT so that I didn't wake up at 3 am trying for an hour to get an iPhone 4S on Sprint for absolutely nothing. I'm going to bed... :mad:

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

kriggo15

187 months ago

The AT&T Upgrader app is a piece of crap...

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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