iPhone 3.0 Drop Time Update and the Great iPhone 3G S Delivery Date Debate
Years past it was lining up outside Apple Stores days in advance, this year it's staring feverishly at LCDs, hitting little buttons like mice at a combo food dispenser/electro-shocker, and hoping beyond hope that iPhone 3.0 is finally ready to download and the UPS dude is a couple days early at the door.
Relax. Breathe.
No one really expected iPhone 3.0 to hit at 12:01am Cupertino Prime Time, and no one truly believed Brown would roll up with an iPhone 3G S at the exact same moment -- and a couple days early. Hope perhaps, dream indeed, but Steve P. Jobs like his events both maddeningly unpredictable and elaborately choreographed.
Doing some elaborate time zone gymnastics, Engadget figures 1pm EDT/10am PDT is the magic moment for iPhone 3.0. Hey, it's the typical start time for an Apple Keynote/Special Event, so why not?
Meanwhile, huge hulking piles of email and tweets tell us all those with early UPS delivery dates are seeing those dates disappear and change faster and more frequently than glowing Apple logo rumors, with the latest being: it looks like UPS is holding packages until their originally announced release date of Friday, June 19.
So, get comfy people, keep your virtual sleeping bags tucked and your coffee, cyber or otherwise, warm. It might just be a long day ahead -- or few days ahead for hardware -- for all of us.
Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.
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i would suck apples d**k at this point for 3.0
2 text messages that i have received from apple, one about the USB adapter, and the other about the 2.2 update came at 2:32pm ET and 2:29 ET.
wtf apple release this junk so i can go to work already...screw that im taking my comp to work... 10:52 EST no update yet
@Devco
I just fell on the floor laughing...
There is a way to txt sideways, but it ends up hurting your neck after awhile....
damn waiting here in Australia.. 12.53 am here
does anyone know where I would be able to download it from the webbrowser itself not itunes?
I just downloaded it...take a look at
http://digiex.net/misc/1675-iphone-ipod-touch-3-0-final-firmware-download-iphone1-23-07a341_restore-ipsw.html
Has all three versions, posted on June 10. Seems to be the real deal.
@ sanfran
You are a fag.
WOW! We are all a little excited waiting for this release but that's a bit much. Best day I had in ages, beets thing about work all day! City or rainbows hey
...it will either be released in 7 or so minutes.... or it will be released in an hour and 7 minutes.... thats what im guessing
WOW! We are all a little excited waiting for this release but that's a bit much. Best day I had in ages, beats thinking about work all day! City or rainbows hey
Somebody check my logic here... Aren't we all connected to the same internet? Whether you're in Miami, Texas, Cupertino, London, Bora-Bora, Kalamazoo, Honolulu, or Pyongyang? Do you really think Apple has scheduled a targeted release time for [your town here]? If it isn't released in Toledo, then likely it isn't available yet in Timbuktu either.
If the websites for the various countries are correct, the release window is between 9am and 11:30am PT. For me, being in Chicago, that means between 11am and 1:30pm.
@truth
i will let u take a dump on my chest for 3.0
Everyone quit your whining. Apple owns all you nerds!
Sheep, poor slaves and idiots all have common grounds. Lmfao
im calling apple about this and its talking forever im guessing lots of people are calling about this stupid delay i the iphone 3.0 but im guessing it will be avablible at 10 am california time caues thats what time it came out last year and thats also when apple opens in cupertino ca so this is when tech support will be avablible.
Apparently, a carrier in Hong Kong is informing it's customers that the update will be available at 1am local time on the 18th. That translates to a 10am PT release. Noon for me. I'd put my money on that, if I were betting.
tick....tick....tick...tick..........
You guys, really -- find something else to do for a few hours. The longer you sit here clicking "check for update", the longer it's going to seem to take.
It'll drop when it drops, and not a second sooner. No amount of whining or bitching or pleading or calling is going to make it happen any earlier. You could always kill some time by sending nasty emails to AT&T regarding the MMS debacle.
I'm ready for them to release all the new apps with push enabled, no more late responses to instant messages, yah
well its past 10:am central time here and still nada. and apple is still holding the curtain down.
@divrdrew
That is the GM build...
sigh...do you people listen?
looks like apple is updating there website.. It first said Coming 17th of June.. Now it says Learn how to upgrade.. Any minute now i guess. Also the australian apple website got updated
man its fricken 10:10 in Louisiana Apple is so pissing me off
3s right, I'm off to work out how to dash mount my tomtom and extend the dice cable
Your right about the bitching and complaining, but it does make me feel better....
Where does it say Learn how to upgrade? Mine still says Available June 17....
@WTF, well if it makes you feel better... that's different...
You guys are a bunch of dopes.
sad news, they cancelled the 3.0 download. No joke.
tgar, have any proof...haha
@tgar: You beat me to it... I was just going to be a dick & say "It's OUT! I'm downloading it in iTunes right now! Hooray! I got it! Yeah!"
Tgar if you are pulling a fast one.......
the more you all wait, the more you will be disappointed. its only basic stuff in the update you've all seen it before. your waiting on the release of old toys
yea, its a joke sorry guys...........man i'm ready to skip work for this........still waiting.
@ Tgar - you are an idiot
@Truth
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the GM issue? I didn't see anything in this thread about that. Don't flame me...just trying to help.
Boy this is crazy im in class blogging Im an addict
anyone know if this is legit?
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6582.20090617.LlI87/iPhone2,13.07A341_Restore.ipsw
@ ullbergm - don't bother
there takin too long, i got up early today just to find out it got pushed back a day....gay
O2 UK says 3.0 will be out this evening in the UK on their website. Guessing anytime after 5pm BST, that's 4pm GMT. Currently 4.30 BST.
You guys know that the GM 3.0 has been available for a week now on the interwebs, right? Just get it and update manually. lol
this is bull
Should be 1 hour and a half till the update!!!
Here are the file names to search for:
iPhone OS 3.0 Gold Master Final for iPhone 1st Generation: Search for iPhone1,13.07A341_Restore.ipsw
iPhone OS 3.0 Gold Master Final for iPhone 3G: Search for iPhone1,23.07A341_Restore.ipsw
iPhone OS 3.0 Gold Master Final for iPod Touch: Search for iPod2,13.07A341_Restore.ipsw
I found it (for the 3G) at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=30D7BWES Have fun!
I think it is a bad idea to wait this long for the update and cave to downloading a non-Apple approved torrent...anyone else think this is crazy?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=4157
Nerds, What BT goodies is everyone going to buy? Anybody studied the stereo headphone or keyboard offerings yet?
Bluetooth keyboard won't be supported.
I would have to agree with 3.0, it's time u sheep stand up for your rights. Tmobile customers have way better rates...not to mention their loyalty plan. So slaves take a stand and tell AT&T to stop nickle and diming us. My services with AT&T suck! Always droping calls
I'm still guessing it's an hour and twenty till the release. Why download the GM - which, as I understand it puts the phone in testing mode - when you're going to have to download the released version anyway?
If you’ve been tethered to your Mac since midnight, obsessively pressing the “Check for Update” button in iTunes, you can give it a rest. At least for a few hours. Engadget has deduced that today’s iPhone 3.0 update won’t get pushed out until around 1pm ET.
Its rationale?
Reports that carrier 3 in Hong Kong sent a network-wide SMS notifying iPhone owners that OS 3.0 will be available on June 18th, 01:00 local time. That’s 1pm on the 17th in New York, 6pm in London, and 1900 in central Europe.
So there you have it. Another three hours to go.
hey bamofo63 where can i get a legit download from? one that isnt going to brick my phone?
pimplepain... where'd you come up with 3 hours again?
14 minutes and counting
Man all apple had to do was give us a specific time that would shut everyone up!
Fred Garvin
That was from ZNET... NOOB
Tap tap . . . Tap Tap Revenge . . .
Stupid song stuck in my head. . .
Whenever 3.0 does drop, it's going to download at 1kb/s and take forever. Then Apple's the servers will crash, and the iPhone-apocolyps will by upon us...
I love Lamp!
i am so obsessed with the iphone!!! I pre ordered it and was so excited it would come today because that was the ups delivery date but right now my phone is in kansas waiting to be delivered till the 19th
its worth the wait man
Finally! Got up at 8 am ET to check been clicking update ever since. Finally out..enjoy guys.
i have been waiting all day and still no sign of hope but thats how apple works u think that they r stuck in the same habit then they completely change up the whole game! so be patient i think the most reasonable time will be 1 o'clock because most people are working then so not everyone can get to it immediately so people do not overload the system it all makes sense as to why they do this.
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6582.20090617.LlI87/iPhone2,13.07A341_Restore.ipsw just got pushed out to their cache servers a few minutes ago. Same build number as their last beta, no idea if its the final.
9am Vancouver BC.....nothing
@Darnell I used that update and am running 3.0 and it worked fine.
Man they gay for this one if they say the 17th then let it be the 17th
4 minutes and counting
Hey i just called apple they said they didnt know what time its being released but u need to close out of itunes for it to pull the update right thats just what the tech guy said dont know if it right or not
I cant wait for them push notifications
it'll come out in an hour and 1 min. i put money on it.
9:01am nothing lol...
its 12 and no sign btw im in est
11:00 here in texas and nothing
u put money on it to come out at 1201, i ust checked still nothing, yall just wait itll be 1pm shese lol
what is everyones guess on the time???
"This version of software (2.2.1) is the current version"
Why do you lie to me computer!!!!!
well, going by the world clock and dates posted on the international apple websites, we're simply waiting for india to cross over to the 18th. that occurs in just under an hour.
oh and i'm in australia. im supposed to be studying for an exam tomorrow morning, but meh.
in 51 minutes
no no i lied. waiting for thailand and other asian countries.
Man.. The last time I waited with so much anticipation was when my son was born!...
My guess is 12 AM CST.
My iTunes just had a real think about dropping the update!! Dialog box popped up saying contacting Apple update servers with scrolling bar. Then informed me my version was up to date. cruel...
Since Morning I've been waiting to get my iPhone Updated and right now it 17:10 hrs at London and my iTune says dat' 2.2.1 is the current version.
Am kinda getting mad... any one knows wot time it'll be out?
I have a flight to from Chicago to Frankfurt at 6:30 PM. This puppy better be out by 1 PM central or I can't get it today.
9am California now, i'll bet they're getting ready to roll it out now 50 mins i bet
First iPhone 2G customers bitch and moan that they have to pay $400+ to buy the iPhone, and still sign a 2 yr contract but can upgrade a year later (eligible for the 3G when it came out July l1th 2008). Then customer's bitch because they have to sign a 2 yr contract again in 2008 when they buy the 3G model at a DISCOUNTED price $199 & $299...on a $599 and $699 phone?! The standard at AT&T is 20 months after your contract, you are ELIGIBLE for another upgrade. So everyone bitches about not being able to pay $199/$299 for the 3GS. Face it people, you're all brainwashed by the "new technology". Do you go out and buy a new car every year too? You guys make me sick. Unlike you suckers....I have so much debt, that never got around to buying the 3G, and can now buy the brand new video capturing 3GS!! Sucks to be you guys! hahahaha
Hey Rai it will out 6pm London Time just hang in there for another 50 mins or so
@cityandcolour88: India doesn't go to the 18th for the next 2 hours and 25 minutes
@Mark
Haa haa! Crappy! I just imagine someone sitting at their computer, getting all excited, "Oh my God, this is it!.... oh... wait... no." And then massive disappointment...
so i think that apple just needs to release everything at 12 o'clock in the morning no matter what your time zone is
Man I werked all night last night expecting to b able to get tha update when i got off at 7a.m CT-US !
Broke ma Mouses clicker, checking for updates a billion times ! ! ! Still nothing I've been up since 5 pm yesterday ! ! ! wish I could take a nap, but I can't sleep ! ! ! 
tooooooooo excited ~ ~
awwwwwww man,geeees, cool,, holy.....wow......i spilled some coke.
i just got an email from my service carrier (optus) about the update. i got it just past 2am so im assuming it'll be out at around 3am melbourne time.
@Niwton. I'm aware of my mistake. Posted that its Thailand and such that we're waiting on.
@Cruz:
Unlike you "sucker", I have so much money that I bought the 3G outright, and now I'm going to buy the 3Gs outright and throw my 3G in the bin.
Sucks to be you in so much debt! hahahahaha
http://www.gsmarena.com/iphoneos30updatetofinallyhiteverybodyat6pmlondon_time-news-979.php
40 minutes.
did u know organized crime counts for about 10% of the USA's annual income?
10.00 AM Cupertino time is the time when the floodgates shall open and millions and billions of hungry, OS-thirsty people of this world shall let loose upon Apple Software Update 3.0...is my guess