Deutsche Telekom taking next-gen iPhone pre-orders

Deutsche Telekom (DT) has begun taking pre-orders for the so-called "iPhone 5," the next generation of Apple's immensely popular smartphone. Here's the odd part: it has barely more information than you or I do.

A spokesman for the carrier confirmed to Bloomberg that it's taking pre-orders as of today. Deutsche Telekom is concerned with supply shortages, and wants to help its customers secure one of the little guys.

DT admits that it does not now when the iPhone will be released, what it will be called (the Internet has dubbed it "iPhone 5," but Apple could call it "Shirley" for all we know), what the features will be and so on. Still, those who must ride the bleeding edge (in the dark even) have their chance.

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Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-05/deutsche-telekom-to…

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Lionel Hutz

Well, they obviously learned from last year. I ordered my iPhone 4 on the third day of the pre-ordering phase in early June and finally got it end of August, because they got completely flooded with pre-orders, which they couldn't properly process - in the end the people not pre-ordering got theirs first, while the pre-orders got heavily delayed.

Instead of having people preorder non-disclosed products, they could just try to get their systems working properly, but it's obviously not their style ... hey, they just consider themselves - inter alia - as an IT solutions provider.

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