Just out of curiosity, does the phone ordered through the program come as the unlocked phone or is it carrier locked still?
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Carrier Apple.com New 2018 iPhone Pre-Order Thread
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Pardon my ignorance. Is the sim free model the same as the faster tmobile model that includes the 600 band? Thanks!
Well my calendar event didn’t wake me up so I’m ATT IUP XS Max Silver 256GB on Sept 28- Oct 5th. Oh well I’m just gonna let it ride and see what happens.
I think it's fewer sales. My evidence is anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt, but... everyone I know with an iphone x is not upgrading, most expensive iphone lineup so far, also one of the least impressive feature updates yet.
You’d need to order whichever carrier you currently have. However, if you need to change carriers later, the new phone is compatible with all carriers. So, you could go from T-Mobile to Verizon as an example.
It’s easy to deduce that it’s less sales just from the volume of posts here alone. There is only 450 posts on this thread this year. Last year by 4 hours after launch there were over 900 posts here. So just about “half” the interest it would seem.
iPhone Xs Max Gold 256GB, delivered on Sep 21. Order went through @ 00:08 the minute the iPhone app came up for me. Went for the sim free version this time around.
Seems like shipping estimates are still holding up fairly well. This is probably down to this being the "S cycle" as well as the pricing, and the fact that there's absolutely no new features in the iPhone Xs beyond the specs bump, so those among the X crowd not interested in a big screen (and there are many) found no reason to upgrade. I'm an iPhone fanatic and owned almost every single version since the very first one, only skipping the 5s, and if it wasn't for the bigger screen on the Max I would've absolutely skipped this year as well. The X is an amazing phone and Apple gave us no reason to upgrade to the regular Xs.
The fact that the XR is coming next month is most likely a factor as well, the XR will definitely be Apple's best selling iPhone this year.
Seems like shipping estimates are still holding up fairly well. This is probably down to this being the "S cycle" as well as the pricing, and the fact that there's absolutely no new features in the iPhone Xs beyond the specs bump, so those among the X crowd not interested in a big screen (and there are many) found no reason to upgrade. I'm an iPhone fanatic and owned almost every single version since the very first one, only skipping the 5s, and if it wasn't for the bigger screen on the Max I would've absolutely skipped this year as well. The X is an amazing phone and Apple gave us no reason to upgrade to the regular Xs.
The fact that the XR is coming next month is most likely a factor as well, the XR will definitely be Apple's best selling iPhone this year.
Agreed totally with your analysis. But why the Xr popularity?? That part I don’t get.
There was a disclaimer at the bottom of the product page that said that the phone would not work with current SIMs. It seemed to be in the same area as the eSIM and perhaps related. But it would be crappy of Apple to not make that very clear during purchase of a SIM-Free model so maybe that isn’t really what it means.
Every year, I pop back in for the pre-order thread. Grabbed my gold XS Max 512 last night at :03!
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Price and the fact that it has almost every good feature of the Xs series. “Normal” people like my wife don’t care about screen technologies and 3D Touch is not that useful. The tipping point is that the single lens camera can do the stuff that used to require the second camera.
Was this it:
- iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are not compatible with existing micro-SIM cards.
Mostly I believe it's the price. $750 is way more accessible for most people than $1000. It's in line with Apple's "regular" pricing for their phones.
Color options will probably also increase it's popularity amongst the younger crowd.
That is interesting, so I can't just pop my existing T-Mobile sim card that we just got in May? That woudl make no sense.
I nearly went for the XR. Coming from the 8Plus it’s an upgrade and would have been a good choice. I set a cap for myself which would have allowed XR and Series 4 watch or the XS Max that I did end up ordering. I went MAX just for the display size but would have been happy with the R. It’s going to be a great selling phone. I’m planning to sell my 8Plus and 7Plus from the year before and buy a XR for my wife. It will be great for her with the slightly smaller physical size and in a color she can pick.
Really? I find that hard to believe. Xs is the least popular one this year. On the App Store app right now it shows 921 availability even almost 5 hours after launch
