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Does tomorrow feel like CHRISTMAS?

I'm an adult, I know tomorrow is just another Friday. But, I feel like it's X-mas (you can add the 'Christ' if you want). I don't know if I'll be able to sleep. I've been counting off the days for weeks now. I plan on getting up extra early so I can be at the Sprint store promptly at 8 am. I plan to get to work a wee-bit late and showing off my new toy. I'm as happy as a little guuurrrrlll.

Antebios said:
I'm an adult, I know tomorrow is just another Friday. But, I feel like it's X-mas (you can add the 'Christ' if you want). I don't know if I'll be able to sleep. I've been counting off the days for weeks now. I plan on getting up extra early so I can be at the Sprint store promptly at 8 am. I plan to get to work a wee-bit late and showing off my new toy. I'm as happy as a little guuurrrrlll.
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Yeah, i don't feel like this since SOCOM 3 for PS2 back in October 11, 2005

That is EXACTLY what is feels like, and I just told one of my friends at lunch that I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning so I can unwrap my toy. I swear I'm obsessed with this phone... I check various blog sites and forums multiple times a day to see if there's any new news. I just hope not to feel let down after I've unwrapped my toy and the anticipation is over.

SKaustin said:
I check various blog sites and forums multiple times a day to see if there's any new news. I just hope not to feel let down after I've unwrapped my toy and the anticipation is over.
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This is exactly what I do. I sort of feel like I've already seen enough trailers for the EVO movie, so when I do finally open it up I won't have as much anticipation or shock because I've already seen all the videos, reviews, photos, disassembled EVO, etc. I'm not going to have the shock values as "WTF! This thing is HUGE! What's this? What's that?"

SKaustin said:
That is EXACTLY what is feels like, and I just told one of my friends at lunch that I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning so I can unwrap my toy. I swear I'm obsessed with this phone... I check various blog sites and forums multiple times a day to see if there's any new news. I just hope not to feel let down after I've unwrapped my toy and the anticipation is over.
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I couldn't have said it better myself!

I have to agree - it is kinda like Christmas -- and I'm picking up 2 EVO's around 11:00 am tomorrow.
The root is available, the phone is available - just gonna be a good day tomorrow.
I'm almost too tired from waiting - to go pick them up ..... almost
Mule

Same here except for the part about being happy like a little guuurrrrlll

Since some people (Google I/O attendees and Ebay buyers) had an early Christmas already, tomorrow seems more like "Festivus" for the rest of us.

I challenge you to the feats of strengths. After that, the airing of grievances.

I can't freaking wait! This is just so exciting, getting up early tomorrow to be at the store by 730

The reason it is like Christmas is because I will be up so freaking early to get to The Shack before 0600...

Is Radio Shack even open that early?

Just confirmed that my Radio Shack has received their shipment.
I have a 7:00AM appointment.
This is soooooooooooo thrillling!

I need to take a sleeping pill so I can make it through the night.

No.....

how do you guys feel about Sprint?

Antebios said:
I challenge you to the feats of strengths. After that, the airing of grievances.
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riverajuan said:
how do you guys feel about Sprint?
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I've been a customer for 11 years.

riverajuan said:
how do you guys feel about Sprint?
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Ehh they $$ are sometime over limited. But in my area sprint works the best, Below that is ATT then T-Mobile. and VZW is last.

I called my Best Buy to see if they can get me an earlier slot, and they told me I can just activate over the phone at 10AM and then pay when I pick it up (any time after activation).
It definitely feels like Christmas tomorrow. I've been counting down the days since I put it on pre-order, and now I'm counting down the hours. 12 more hours to go! And since I'll be sleeping for 8 of them, that means only 4 more hours of actual awake time!

best buy sucks COULDNT GET MY EVO

went to pick my preordered evo but they told me their systems r not functioning because sprint and bestbuy were activating too many lines at the same time.what a luck huh...... and im working full time this weekend so no chance to drop by bestbuy.jsut my day.F$%@#$KKKKK!!!

dude why dint you get it at radio shack? i woke up at 6 am i got it for 150 because i preordered it with 50$ and got a 20 dolar gift card and 10% on accesories and had no problem at all to activated....

same thing is happening at the shack only the early ppl got it.. i tried to get mine at 9 and they couldnt do it...

yea i should've preordered at the shack but too bad for me.so pissed off that im thinking of to wait for the HTC SCORPION

Same thing here....11 AM appt. BB Maize Rd - Wichita......systems are down. 2-2.5 hr wait for activation...started at 9AM. About the time Cali opened. They are going to hold my phone until I can get there after work. Felt retarded leaving work to go get a phone as it was. Oh well.

My Best Buy called in to Sprint and activated over the phone - took about 15 minutes.

magicalan said:
dude why dint you get it at radio shack? i woke up at 6 am i got it for 150 because i preordered it with 50$ and got a 20 dolar gift card and 10% on accesories and had no problem at all to activated....
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i did the EXACT same thing! except me, my dad and my brothers rolled up to the RS expecting to wait, there was NOBODY there.(except employees) in the time it took us to activate 5 lines, not one person came into the store. i'm very disappointed dallas!!

they had to try a couple times with mine but after the system going down for 10min twice in the middle it took almost an hour for me to get everything done. But I also had picked the lowest sales volume store in the area they only had 13 preorders spread through the whole day. They had time to wait on me.

that is a bummer. i was the first to get my preorder at RS. but as soon as the second guy was let it to do his. the system started to slow down. RS uses "snap" for sprint activation and to my understanding so does BB. if thats the case, could be a long day for ppl because when "snap" slows down, it REALLY slows down...

Why not take the phone unactivated and do it on your own time via Sprints site? Are they not allowing that?

No they have to activate in store, part of the deal with sprint.

We ran 7 of our 8 EVO sales fine in SNAP, though it was beginning to take ~5-10 minutes to load each page. Only one customer (of course mine) ran into so many problems that it took 3 hours to complete... I felt so bad
NOTE TO EVERYONE: If you're trying to upgrade a line that has a Data or SMS block on it, CALL SPRINT AND HAVE THEM REMOVE IT FIRST. It's more hassle than it's worth to handle it in store

Yeah took me about an hour. Took the first dude who came in about an hour. System was sloooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....but the phone is beautiful...

Currently having activations issues in Northern CA RS store.. Spent an hour in the store and they are still bogged down.. Hoping to snag the phone at lunch.

Good that I took an appointment for 7.30pm today. Hopefully we should be good by that time.

xtkxhom3r said:
same thing is happening at the shack only the early ppl got it.. i tried to get mine at 9 and they couldnt do it...
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Yeah I went there at 9 but I think I was more dedicated than you. After 3 hours and 2 breaks (walking around the mall for food) I walked out with my baby at 12:30.
Great day.

My girlfriend went and got mine took 30 minutes and this was at 10am eastern time. By the way, this was at Radio Shack
(Now I am a cool kid with the sent from evo at the bottom )
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I was the first one in my BB and had to port my number..it took over an hour to do everything and the people after me couldnt do anything.
bad thing is i cant make any outgoing calls or send any outgoing txt msgs..i can only receive calls and txts..
they told me it would be a few hours..its been over 4 hours and still wont work
so its half way working i guess..

walked in the store at 8, out the door at 820 with my phone.
of course, i was a new line. only weird thing about mine was porting my number from tmo.
i miss the colors on my nexus one. wish the evo's screen was amoled. but, i do like the size, i have to admit.

timothydonohue said:
walked in the store at 8, out the door at 820 with my phone.
of course, i was a new line. only weird thing about mine was porting my number from tmo.
i miss the colors on my nexus one. wish the evo's screen was amoled. but, i do like the size, i have to admit.
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Dude imagine goig from the nexus to palm pre, and then to evo wow such a difference in the 3

EVO Sells Out In-Store & Online

Engadget is reporting that Sprint has sold out on their initial stock of EVO's for their stores and online, and likely BestBuy and The Shack.
Great news eh?
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Every store in Houston sold out within 15 minutes. I was able to convince a best buy employee to give me some poor other guys preorder...

Grims said:
Every store in Houston sold out within 15 minutes. I was able to convince a best buy employee to give me some poor other guys preorder...
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you must have done some pretty serious convincing...

Checked the Sprint link...
Here was the message
"Sorry, this device is so hot we can't keep it on our virtual shelves.
Check back later - more are on their way!"
Man, I just ordered mine yesterday online and it arrived today (free overnight shipping) ...Phew, that was close!

i had called up 3 different sprint stores and this is what i was told
store 1: sold out, will get new shipment either friday or tuesday
store 2: sold out, taking deposit to reserve one (45 people already on list)
store 3: had few in stock (Silver Spring, MD)

ffolkes said:
you must have done some pretty serious convincing...
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Not sure how I did it to be honest. I'm told I come across as very intimidating.. but I was in no way upset, and understanding of the shortage. Next thing I know I see him go to the locked closet...grab one out of the stack and peel someones name off of it..

Grims said:
Not sure how I did it to be honest. I'm told I come across as very intimidating.. but I was in no way upset, and understanding of the shortage. Next thing I know I see him go to the locked closet...grab one out of the stack and peel someones name off of it..
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are you a new customer? maybe thats why
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697976

Radio shack is the only place in lower NH i could get on a pre-order list. Comes in Friday

Good thing I ordered mine Sunday.. i received it earlier today!

Here in Ohio no better, Went to best buy with my buddy, was quoted as Evo shippment tomorrow and now it's been moved to a nice lovely ambiguous "sometime from wednesday to friday" Here's hoping sooner rather than later but oh well. Here's hoping we can survive the great evo shortage of 2010! (*side note* kinda regretting not pre-ordering sooner, I was 8 people into the 2nd batch forcing me to wait an extra week. BAH!)

its good news, i just wished they had more accessories on launch day!

Decided to give in and pick one of these up yesterday. Couldnt find one in stock anywhere. This morning I was prepared to call every Radio Shack in the area. The 1st one I called said someone just took themselves off the list and that they had one available. I put my name on it, and picked it up 20 minutes later.
I have 2 friends that got theirs this same way. I did pre order one for my girlfriend though while I was there and she will be getting it on Friday.

I just got mine today and I had to call 8 or so sprint stores to find one in stock, ends up the store I got mine at had 10 in stock still from the first shipment and they had given a lot of their first order of 300 to other area stores. Once I got there it took them about 2 and a half hours to activate the flippin thing, my voice and 4g connected but my 3g never came up, took them forever to sort it out. They actually had to activate two evos to figure the problem out. I got 2 boxes and goodies out of the deal though, I am in the kc area too.

Which Sprint store was this? Im also in the KC area and have a few friends wondering if anyone has them in stock. Sounds like that store may be worth a shot.

argh its sold out online again!! I can't wait any longer!

wakeboarder1335 said:
argh its sold out online again!! I can't wait any longer!
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i ordered mine online last night at 11pm central time and it was available waiting for it to come now ughhhh!!!!! all i have been doing is making lists of apps and what i want to try (been a windows mobile guy since the tilt days currently have a HTC Touch Pro 2 unlocked gotta sell that once my EVO comes in cant wait

Which Sprint store was this? Im also in the KC area and have a few friends wondering if anyone has them in stock. Sounds like that store may be worth a shot.
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I scooped mine up from the studio Sprint store, downtown in the power and light district, like 14th and grand, also I got a call from the Sprint store that I was on a waiting list at and they had one for me, i was number 15 I believe.
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I ordered mine online on the 7th, and it showed up UPS on the 9th. I couldn't have done better searching around. I say Sprint has come a long way.

spyngamerman said:
i ordered mine online last night at 11pm central time and it was available waiting for it to come now ughhhh!!!!! all i have been doing is making lists of apps and what i want to try (been a windows mobile guy since the tilt days currently have a HTC Touch Pro 2 unlocked gotta sell that once my EVO comes in cant wait
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I was going to order it online last night and then dumb me second guessed myself and decided to see if i could get lucky in a store today. Now I realize that was a very stupid idea.

how are some of you getting overnight delivery; i placed my order around 12pm PST yesterday and i still haven't received a delivery notification or any updates; it still says waiting in the warehouse for processing; this is annoying me since it's supposed to be overnight delivery

Finally getting my EVO

After 5 weeks of running around the D.C. and Northern Virginia area I will have my evo as soon as I get out of work! The only downside is, it will come with 2.2 >.< and I can't root it yet oh well. How is everyone liking Froyo?

@EVO 4G congratulations man! it'll be nice to welcome another into the clan! as far as froyo goes, honestly, i'm kinda disappointed. My battery life seems worse and the phone seems to run hotter.
now take my opinion with a grain of salt. it seems that my results are not typical. i'm looking into what i can do to fix that.
anyways, congratulations and i hope they find a root for 2.2 so you can enjoy everything the EVO has to offer!

Thank you! I was a troll back in the days of the 8525 this forum helped me unlock it and mod it. I finally decided to join. Yeah I saw a few threads about running hot. I am sure they will find a way to root eventually.

EVO 4G said:
Thank you! I was a troll back in the days of the 8525 this forum helped me unlock it and mod it. I finally decided to join. Yeah I saw a few threads about running hot. I am sure they will find a way to root eventually.
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It may not come with 2.2 preloaded. Just tell the employee that you are busy and will perform the update yourself at home on wifi instead of 3g/4g.

thats a really good point. it might have been sitting in the packaging long enough to dodge the 2.2 update

God, I hope that is the point. The way they have been selling and the fact that sprint's website is advertising 2.2 I doubt thats the case for this one >.< . We will see though.

fingers crossed homie!

I wouldnt trade my EVO FOR NO OTHER PHONE I LOVE IT!

Woohoo got my evo. Unfortunately its on 2.2 arrrghhh. Oh well this phone is the deal!

Sigh, still waiting here in Philly. Getting tired of waiting.

I picked up my Evo yesterday afternoon (Thurs) from a Sprint store, I had been on the list for a couple of weeks and they told me they would get some in on Wed. or Thurs. I also was on a list at Radio Shack and they told me they might get 3 Evos on Friday. On my drive to Sprint I pulled into Radio Shack and noticed a car with a Sprint logo parked outside. The manager told me again that they would be getting 3 phones on Friday...long story short: I left Radio Shack and went to Sprint, paid the full $320+ for the Evo, left Sprint and 20 minutes later RShack called me and told me I could come pick up my phone. With Radio Shack it would have been $199 + tax and that's it, no upgrade charge for the new phone etc., only the $10 more per month for the Evo plan. So I had good luck mixed with bad luck but I'm glad I've got my first Droid and it's great.

I love my EVO, best phone out there and best phone I've ever had (coming from WM TP2)!

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: I left Radio Shack and went to Sprint, paid the full $320+ for the Evo, left Sprint and 20 minutes later RShack called me and told me I could come pick up my phone. With Radio Shack it would have been $199 + tax and that's it, no upgrade charge for the new phone etc., only the $10 more per month for the Evo plan. So I had good luck mixed with bad luck but I'm glad I've got my first Droid and it's great.
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You should of taken it back to the sprint store and got it at Radioshack so you didn't have the mail in coupon
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Sprint would have charged me a $35 restocking fee to return the Evo. I didn't even think about trying to return it as I'd signed the new contract etc. I did have Sprint charge my account so if I take a few months to pay it off my refund will show up in the mail. I really wanted to buy at Radio Shack though, if the manager would have slyly let me know the phones were in yesterday I would have waited for him to call.

[Q] Not long now...

Only 5 days to go until the official release in the UK, and I was wondering how many people have taken the day off work specifically to collect their new phone?
I'm not personally, but I have a brother who works for CPW who said their deliveries usually come in on the Tuesday, so I may have mine a day before release!
One other thing, after watching all the videos out there, I feel I am expecting this phone to completely blow me away. Do you guys think it's really going to be all that and a bag of chips?
Cheers,
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I'm taking the day off, but that's mostly because there's no guarantee what time it will be delivered at my workplace and I start early and finish early. I don't want to have to hang around the office all day for it to arrive at 5:00 so I'm taking the day off and collecting it from the VodaGroan shop.
The "all that" thing is going to be largely down to useage and expectations, I'm a heavy user, but I'm just expecting it to be better than my SGS1. This phone isn't going to cook my dinner, rub my shoulders, etc, it's just going to be for browsing the web, listening to music and playing games.

i wouldnt waste a days holiday to sit around waiting for a phone....its just a phone
it will still be there when i get home from work, and a phone doesnt rule my life....

Brownstone said:
I'm not personally, but I have a brother who works for CPW who said their deliveries usually come in on the Tuesday, so I may have mine a day before release!
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Can I be nosey and ask if you got a discount then and how much? Did you go contact or SIM free?

We have a porter in our development so parcels are taken care of. I'm usually at home anyway and I am not planning on going anywhere the day of expected delivery because I know I'll want to play with my new toy as soon as it gets here
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I have a week off
But then I'll be working my volunteer job of blogging in that time...

My day off anyway but if wearher is nice wont be staying in waiting for it, will be at tbe beach!!
However we get an hour timeslot for delivery text to us from the delivery firm vodafone use and I live 2 minutes from beach so bot a problem popping home for an hour......but the phone wont be going back to beach with me.....knowing my luck my boy will bury it
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jayc1980 said:
but the phone wont be going back to beach with me.....knowing my luck my boy will bury it
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Your shiny new S3 would probably make a great spade... New sand castle building accessory
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MrMrMr111 said:
Can I be nosey and ask if you got a discount then and how much? Did you go contact or SIM free?
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No discount unfortunately, and I've gone on contract with 3, moving from a SGS1 on Vodafone. I also have the SGS2 through o2 as my work phone, so I will briefly have all 3 SGS phones, until someone buys my SGS1 off me.
Cheers,
BS...

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My day off anyway but if wearher is nice wont be staying in waiting for it, will be at tbe beach!!
However we get an hour timeslot for delivery text to us from the delivery firm vodafone use and I live 2 minutes from beach so bot a problem popping home for an hour......but the phone wont be going back to beach with me.....knowing my luck my boy will bury it
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That hour time slot is good service. Which firm do they use? Are you in the UK?
Cheers,
BS...

I have phoned my local Carphone Warehouse store, and they have told me that they will be getting their stock on the 29th, but they are "not allowed" to sell them until the 30th. They will be available from 9:00am.

General and launch discussion should be directed here.
Thank you.