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Carrier T-Mobile iPhone X/8 Pre-Order and Dispatch Thread
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I remember you from last year. Hopefully this year don’t go like last year.
I took the $300 trade in with my 6+. I don’t mind trading that one in and keeping the Rose Gold 7+ I paid off.
For those interested; Last year, I remember learning a little bit more about the shipping process. From what I understand, devices are assigned IMEI's while still in China, after T-Mobile learns how much inventory they will have available. From there, they are shipped through Alaska, to Louisville KY, where there is either a main UPS hub or T-Mobile hub, I don't recall which, but from there, orders are distributed around the US.
Last year, I was able to track the early movements of my order when it was en route from China via the My Choice UPS app. It essentially tracks any packages in their system which are destined for your address. If T-Mobile's devices are assigned IMEI's in China, an address will be associated with that IMEI and so we theoretically should be able to track these packages this way again.
https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/tracking/mychoice.page
Last year, I was able to track the early movements of my order when it was en route from China via the My Choice UPS app. It essentially tracks any packages in their system which are destined for your address. If T-Mobile's devices are assigned IMEI's in China, an address will be associated with that IMEI and so we theoretically should be able to track these packages this way again.
https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/tracking/mychoice.page
This is the 2nd time I called in for a preorder and wasn’t put on hold. Last year I upgraded online and had so many issues and didn’t receive my 7+ until 10/17. I don’t think I’ll be using online until they get it together. I also have a order through Apple with estimated dates of 11/17-11/24.
Meaningless honestly. They did this last year with the 7, shifted people's dates around and shifted them again once they received their first shipments.
Perhaps, but those of us who ordered within the first few minutes (12:03 in my case), should certainly be getting our phones on launch day, whether they be T-Mobile, Verizon or whatever.
One would hope this is the case. And hopefully production is better then expected which is why Apple is bumping dates from customers who bought from them rather then taking from supplies originally slated for carrier stores.
Y’all are hoping for launch day deliver I’m just hoping it ships within a week of launch day! I waited four weeks for the 7 plus!
I did too, I ordered one of these. Which did you get?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075WWWBYT/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I went with Spigen for case (been with them 5yr straight now) and Yootech for wireless charging pad. I originally ordered a Spigen charging pad for $25 but i found the Yootechs for $9.99 each so i went with 2 of those. One for work the other for bedroom...
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Yootech for $10ea found it on 9to5mac
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Yup... at work i charge off my laptop which has usb-c and at home i have tons of power bricks
I ordered a USB cord to hook it up to my work computer to charge on.
Yeah, that's a pretty sweet deal. I opted for this one because it appears that when 'fast charging' becomes a thing later this year, the one I got will support it.
Interesting update to the shipping dates chart for T-Mo:
Apple iPhone X
Space Gray - 64GB Ships 11/10/17 - 12/01/17
Silver - 64GB Ships 11/03/17 - 11/10/17
Space Gray - 256GB Ships 11/10/17 - 12/01/17
Silver - 256GB Ships 11/10/17 - 12/01/17
Apple iPhone X
Space Gray - 64GB Ships 11/10/17 - 12/01/17
Silver - 64GB Ships 11/03/17 - 11/10/17
Space Gray - 256GB Ships 11/10/17 - 12/01/17
Silver - 256GB Ships 11/10/17 - 12/01/17
I just did the most stupid thing, pre-order the iPhone X 64gb black at 2:28 am CT, signed the agreement, everything was good, delivery date for 11.2-11.3, couldn't sleep until 4:30am, woke up, had breakfast, until 2pm I notice that my address was wrong, 992 xxxxx instead of 922 xxxxx, I've never felt more impotent, call T-Mobile, told me they couldn't change the shipping address 
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So, went to a local store, the only thing they could do was change the billing address, hopefully the payment will go thru, they couldn't tell for sure, and the only thing left to do is, if when the payment goes thru, get a tracking number, call UPS, hopefully with a window of opportunity and change the address before it ships.
They told to cancel the order and do it again but I would lose my turn, I said no thanks, I'll just have to wait and see if I will get it by launch day.
.So, went to a local store, the only thing they could do was change the billing address, hopefully the payment will go thru, they couldn't tell for sure, and the only thing left to do is, if when the payment goes thru, get a tracking number, call UPS, hopefully with a window of opportunity and change the address before it ships.
They told to cancel the order and do it again but I would lose my turn, I said no thanks, I'll just have to wait and see if I will get it by launch day.
