Seriously, where are all the phones!?

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The 9 million pre-orders were for outside North America, and the phone went on sale in Europe over a month ago, all of those pre-orders where more than likely filled last month. Also you know the phone was probably in production at least a month before it went on sale. They don't just start making phones a few days before they sell it.

Someone screwed the pooch in the NA launch. I'm not sure whether it is the carrier's or Samsung.

Someone mentioned that for all their faults, Apple knows how to launch a product. For as much copying that Samsung does, you figure they could have copied a smooth launch.

They should have just came out right off the bat and said it will launch officially on (Insert Date), and all the carriers should have been prepared and launched them on that day. If there wasn't enough stock available for a lets say June 21st launch. then wait and do it on July 1st...etc... built up the stocks and have a proper launch, not this cluster mess it is right now.

It if didn't make matters worse by waiting for this crap, is that I'm also waiting for ICS to push to my Razr Maxx. Motorola is also pushing people's patience with that. Now that it is out of Soak test they are only pushing it out in small batches. The morons should just have an update program you can download like Samsung or HTC and just do it yourself instead of waiting for them to grace you with their OS Push.

So between Samsung and Motorola, I feel like going crazy.

They say patience is a virtue, well those two companies are pushing my virtue.

Little clarification on the preorders here and here (in this thread).

 

[jeffreii]

For what it's worth - I ordered my white AT&T 16GB SIII yesterday at 3PM...and received it today at 2PM. 23 hour turn around.

Seems to me they have some inventory to continue fulfilling pre-orders but not enough to ship out to stores around the country.