Customers begin to receive iPhone 4S shipment notices

I got my shipment notification this morning, but I haven't received one for my wife's phone which was ordered about 5 min after min.

I received a preparing for shipment notice on Sunday morning.

I got my notice this morning. I ordered through the Apple store - adding two more years to AT&T. Hope mine slips through and I get it a day early. (My coworker got his iP4 last year a day early.)

I got my Verizon iPhone 4 on Monday, before the Thursday release. The carriers claim they're holding them, but plenty of devices are delivered early.

Is it just me, or does it seem as though the "default" color of the iPhone 4S is white instead of black. I seem to be seeing a lot of pictures of the white one instead of black like all other iPhones.

Hooray! I'm tracking my 4S on the package tracking map at http://boxoh.com
And to support my OCD when I'm away, they have an RSS feed for my package that I'll have my feed reader send push alerts on.

Friday can't come soon enough.

I was never able to get through on Apple's site during the wee hours of Oct. 7, so I ended up pre-ordering from AT&T.
I checked my order status today and it showed "Back Ordered" as the ship date status.

Below is the response I received from AT&T online customer chat:
"I do apologize for this "backorder" status. I can assure you that your oder is still in progress. Due to the massive influx of iPhone pre-orders, our warehouse is currently out of stock, causing this "backorder" status. However, we are in the process of filling our warehouse with more iPhone 4S devices. As soon as they come in your order will be processed as usual and your expected shipping date will not change."

I like that she used quotes around "backorder", and that she said the expected shipping date WILL note change. Here's hoping she's correct. We'll see.

To judge past experience: Did anyone order online through AT&T when the iPhone 4 pre-ordered? And did you get it on the launch date?

For the iPhone 4 launch, many pre-orders were delivered the day prior (so Thursday instead of Friday). I was one of those. Hopefully they'll do it again to take load off the activation servers.

I'm going out of town on Friday afternoon. I REALLY hope the delivery comes sooner in the day rather than later. I suppose the plus side is that since it will come with iOS 5 installed, I could grab it as a I walk out the door and remotely activate the phone and restore from iCloud from the road without having to sync with my computer, as I would have done before iOS 5. If it works as well in reality as it should in theory, that could be a huge convenience factor.

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