iBuyer - "I heard it has the Four Gees?"

O2 Rep - "Totally. It has four gees. And a totally unique screen that frames your videos with these awesome black sides."

iBuyer - *orgasm*

I really want to thank you all. My measly AAPL holdings are doing quite well:

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Now make sure you buy a new mini iPad as well. ;)

Ian

I felt that way too...but when I picked up a 4GS for the wife there was no way I could figure out how to add it without converting to the new shared data plan. I used all of four gigs over six months, so nothing lost. But being able to add my iPad for just $10 per month (which is a 4G hotspot) and using the shared data works well. I believe with a 4 gig monthly plan my total cost, is lower than before, plus adding another smart phone and the aforementioned iPad.

I won't give up my unlimited plan either. Silly, but there you are.

Ditto!

That'd be nice considering they don't now for the current iPhones. All the knock offs I've seen are still around 2/3 of Apple's price.

+100 - appreciate the 779% return ;)

People are already camping out a week early ;D

Feeding frenzy!

I'll just wait for mine to come in the mail Friday

But if you camp out in front of the post box waiting it will show how much you really care. ;)

You better - you know people will be getting their mailboxes raided this week and a flood of ill-obtained stolen iP5s will be popping up on FeeBay and CL. Sad but true - I wouldn't have it delivered anywhere other than directly to my office, certainly not an unattended mailbox.

Good god living your life must be exhausting.

They won't deliver to a PO Box and every delivery requires a signature. (supposedly)

I have the unlimited data plan as well. Most months I never approach 600 MB. Last month while stuck in recovery mode after surgery I used 2.4 gigs in one month. New record for me. The hospital Wi Fi was sporadic. During the day it would get real slow. At night it was fast. 3G got me through. :D

Straight Talk (which I'm using on my iP4) is unlimited data AND no contract - the only caveat is you have to jailbreak your phone to use MMS (multimedia messaging services) which is not that hard and is something I'd recommend anyone do anyway - there's no downside.

Supposedly if you abuse the data with ST, they'll shut you off, but it is definitely promoted as "unlimited". Even using it a lot I'm barely touching 1.5 gig a month so I doubt it's an issue, but if I were tethering my laptop to it (i.e. personal hotspot) and transferring a lot of not-compressed-for-smartphone type graphics/video, it'd probably chew up a lot more transfer bytes more quickly and I might get on their radar. For now it seems to work great and I have no real reason to do so. ATT/Verizon/TMobile/Sprint can all kiss my arse. They all suck and are charging what IMHO are criminal rates for data transfer - the infrastructure costs them the same whether it sits there idle transferring nothing or whether it's flooded - and it's all been long since paid for.

Delivering to my office. The mail room has been notified. I do need to see if the guard will call me when the UPS man comes through the gate. Lol jk I'm not that extreme.

Record iPhone 5 preorders increase confidence in 10M Sept. quarter sales
By Neil Hughes

With Apple's iPhone 5 already off to a record setting start, market watchers have expressed greater confidence that Apple could sell as many as 10 million units before the current quarter ends on September 29.

After Apple announced on Monday that preorders of the iPhone 5 had exceeded 2 million in the first 24 hours, Wall Street analysts reacted positively to the news, while some revised their projected sales upward. Among those was T. Michael Walkley with Canaccord Genuity, who now believes Apple could ship between 9 million and 10 million iPhone 5 units by the end of the September quarter.

Walkley's checks with Apple's three U.S. carrier partners found that in addition to strong iPhone 5 preorders, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have also seen "solid sales" of legacy models. With the introduction of the iPhone 5, Apple has dropped the price of the 16-gigabyte iPhone 4S to $99, while an 8-gigabyte iPhone 4 is available for free with a new two-year service contract.

Walkley joins Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, who said earlier this month before the iPhone 5 was officially unveiled that he also believes sales of the latest iPhone could reach 10 million by the end of the current quarter. The iPhone 5 will debut in 9 countries this Friday, Sept. 21, and another 22 countries will follow suit next Friday.



Brian White with Topeka Capital Markets also previously said that iPhone 5 sales could reach between 10 million and 12 million units this quarter, despite being on sale for just one week of the September frame. He said Monday after Apple announced its record preorders that his estimates "look conservative."

"Given the much stronger than expected iPhone 5 pre-orders sales, we expect a meaningful jump in the three-day sales results for the iPhone 5 compared to the over 4 million iPhone 4S weekend sales last year," White wrote.

Last year's iPhone 4S launch was the largest product debut ever for Apple, reaching 4 million units in its first three days of availability. That more than doubled the previous record of 1.7 million sales in three days by the iPhone 4 in 2010.

Finally, Maynard Um with Wells Fargo Securities said in a note to investors on Monday that he expects Apple will face supply constraints of the iPhone 5 at launch. Apple did acknowledge on Monday that demand for the iPhone 5 currently exceeds supply, but the company also said the "majority of preorders" will be delivered to customers on Sept. 21.

New orders of the iPhone 5 are not scheduled to arrive until October, which would push those sales to Apple's December quarter. Leading up to the holiday shopping season, Um expects Apple will resolve its supply constraints "rather quickly" and catch up to consumer demand for the iPhone 5.

Model Release Date Pre-Orders Launch Figures
iPhone 6/29/2007 1m in 74 days
iPhone 3G 7/11/2008 1m in 3 days
iPhone 3GS 6/19/2009 1m in 3 days
iPhone 4 6/24/2010 600k in 24 hours 1.7m in 3 days
iPhone 4S 10/14/2011 1m in 24 hours 4m in 3 days
iPhone 5 9/21/2012 2m in 24 hours ?

Not really. With AT&T if you reach 3GB for two consecutive months they will throttle your speed down.

They offer you "unlimited" data but the speed at which they deliver it to you isn't guaranteed.