How to get an iPhone 3G S tomorrow in US, UK, and Canada
By Ross Miller 
posted June 18th 2009 10:24PM
posted June 18th 2009 10:24PM
Didja hear the news? There's a new iPhone coming out tomorrow! Okay, snark aside, we know there's still a good number of you who want to brave the weather and grab yourself a brand spanking new 3G S, but for whatever reason didn't pre-order ahead of time. Not to worry, we're here to help!
United States
If you pre-ordered the phone in-store from AT&T, you can pick it up tomorrow at 7:00AM from that same retail outlet. Everyone else will have to wait until the normal business hours, and from there it's first come, first serve. If you're wanting to head to an Apple store, be sure to set your alarms for the right time: each one is opening at 7:00AM local time. Apple's online site has a field to let you complete pre-authorization ahead of time, but that won't guarantee you availability so still plan on waiting outside before sunrise. You can also try your luck at Best Buy and Walmart, which should be receiving some stock for each store. As for online pre-orders from either AT&T or Apple, well, just go with whatever the shipping date currently says.
United Kingdom
O2 customers can get their 3G S starting at 8:02AM -- yes, that's the official time, and not a minute sooner, we suspect -- from O2, Apple, and Carphone Warehouse stores. Prices vary based on a variety of 18 and 24 month plans, as well as Pay & Go plans.
Canada
Unsurprisingly, Rogers and subsidiary Fido will be handling your iPhone fix. Also, for the first time, you can also drop by an Apple retail store, which should open around 8:00AM local time. From what we can tell, the Rogers / Fido stores aren't opening early, but just to be safe, you might wanna call tonight or plan on showing up an hour before the usual time.
Obviously, there's more than a few countries we're not covering here, so hit up the read link to check out Apple's official site for details by region, and feel free to share your own tips in the comments below!
United States
If you pre-ordered the phone in-store from AT&T, you can pick it up tomorrow at 7:00AM from that same retail outlet. Everyone else will have to wait until the normal business hours, and from there it's first come, first serve. If you're wanting to head to an Apple store, be sure to set your alarms for the right time: each one is opening at 7:00AM local time. Apple's online site has a field to let you complete pre-authorization ahead of time, but that won't guarantee you availability so still plan on waiting outside before sunrise. You can also try your luck at Best Buy and Walmart, which should be receiving some stock for each store. As for online pre-orders from either AT&T or Apple, well, just go with whatever the shipping date currently says.
United Kingdom
O2 customers can get their 3G S starting at 8:02AM -- yes, that's the official time, and not a minute sooner, we suspect -- from O2, Apple, and Carphone Warehouse stores. Prices vary based on a variety of 18 and 24 month plans, as well as Pay & Go plans.
Canada
Unsurprisingly, Rogers and subsidiary Fido will be handling your iPhone fix. Also, for the first time, you can also drop by an Apple retail store, which should open around 8:00AM local time. From what we can tell, the Rogers / Fido stores aren't opening early, but just to be safe, you might wanna call tonight or plan on showing up an hour before the usual time.
Obviously, there's more than a few countries we're not covering here, so hit up the read link to check out Apple's official site for details by region, and feel free to share your own tips in the comments below!
by "line" you mean 4 virgins?
id rather call them losers
I preordered mine at best buy=) so im good! No lines no wait....
iPhone launch in UK on O2 network is actually 9:02AM, not 8:02am. Some participating stores opening at the earlier time, but not many...
As far as I can remember you could buy an Iphone in NY Nov 2007 without a AT&T contract.
Is that still possible or does now also US have that restriction that it has to be bought with a mobile contract?
like I posted earlier on another post.. YOU CAN RESERVE AN iPHONE 3G S @ BESTBUY!!!
Not to be rude to engadget but if you bought an iphone 1st gen or the 3g on the day of release you all know you can go to the apple store at 9pm with a shorter line and get an iphone its pointless waiting in a huge line when you can wait till night with a very small line and get your iphone 3g s.
Kudos to Engadget for writing a great article to help gadget lovers around the world (well...not exactly) information on when/where/how to get new gadgets as soon as possible. I'd love to see more of these! I'm not interested in the 3GS at all so this article in particular doesn't help me, but it would be great to see something like this more frequently for highly anticipated products.
I don’t consider it’s worth buying the new iPhone 3G S, unless your carrier offers you a cheap upgrade option. The OS 3.0 will bring a lot of 3G S’ features, excepting the 7.2MBps HSPA, 3 MP camera, better processor, and a few more. If you don’t really need those features, go for the OS 3.0 and keep your current iPhone 3G.
However, fans of the iPhone are cheered when Apple's iPhone 3G S made its debut. Also, most users would like to put DVDs movie video on iPhone 3G S. I’ve found a good tutorial about import DVD / video to iphone 3GS/ iPhone 3G:
http://www.daniusoft.com/tutorial/dvd-video-to-iphone-3g-s.html
Wish I could see what the real line-up today look like. wtf with last year picture?!
Well i have just returned from waiting outside 02 since 07:30 only to find out they dont open until 09:02 not 08:02?
I even went their yesterday and they said 08:02 so not too happy about that one.
But got my Black 32Gig iPhone and are restoring my previous backup from my original iPhone right now!
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I think I can easily claim I have one if I ever meet an engadget staf member, for the rest I nor anybody else cares for me to have one.
in the words of Miss Crock from "screwed" : Whooooooooo Cares!
This picture is from last year. Right click -> properties on the picture and you'll see it as: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/07/7-11-08-cubeline.jpg
Engadget is just trying to fake publicize Apple iPhone