Preparing for the iPhone 4 Launch

So by now, you should know if you’ll be getting the iPhone 4 on launch day (6/24). If you were patient enough on Tuesday to keep hammering the pre-ordering system, you were given the coveted reservation notice allowing you to pick up your brand new iPhone 4 next Thursday. It took me a good 90 minutes, but I eventually made my way through the AT&T account verification and reserved my pre-order.

Unfortunately my mom did not. She waited until Tuesday night only to find that the first batch of pre-orders had been spoken for. However, she noticed in one of the FAQs that it might still be possible to snag one on launch day. It’s a little hidden away, but if you do some snooping around, you’ll find a sort of “loophole” that customers have taken advantage of in the past, allowing customers to buy multiple iPhones/iPads.

With the increasing demand and limited supply for this latest iPhone, I wanted to find out if this policy will still be valid on launch. So I called up my local Apple Store in Valley Fair (the store where my reservation is placed), hoping I could get two questions answered. I spoke with a rep named Tony. According to her, there’s no official statement from Apple whether or not a reservation will be needed for each additional iPhone purchased. But if the previous iPad launch is any indication, you probably will be able to with only one reservation. Additionally, it hasn’t been stated yet, but there will most likely be a buying limit of two (2) iPhones per customer. I’ll try following up later this weekend, in case any new info comes out of Apple HQ. The second question I asked Tony was whether or not there would be a line for overnighters, to which she responded, “only if there’s people that line up.” So basically…Yes.