The demand for Apple may have been higher than expected and now Apple is pushing back the shippment of the iPhone 5. According to Apple’s preorder website. The preorders will be shipped in 2 weeks, even though Apple promised the phones would be in customer hands on Sept 21.
Apple had previously announced the iPhone 5 would be available online and in retail stores on Sept. 21, and customers could pre-order the phone online starting on Sept. 14. When the iPhone 5 page went live yesterday in the online store, the page noted that iPhones pre-ordered online would ship by Sept. 21, The Next Webreports. That notice has been replaced by another notice, “available to ship in two weeks,” in the U.S., France, the U.K., Germany and Australia.
TechCrunch reports that Apple changed its shipping estimates for the iPhone 5 just one hour after it became available for pre-order online, compared with the 22 hours that it took for the iPhone 4S to sell out in pre-order and the 20 hours that it took for the iPhone 4 to sell out in pre-order.
The iPhone is also available for pre-order through its U.S. phone carriers, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. All three carriers report an expected delivery date of Sept. 21 for all models of the iPhone 5.
[usatoday]
