Apart from the launch in London P4U store, any news on other demo unit availability?.......are all P4U stores able to show them now?
I will try as best i can to update this when people let us know where units are in store to play with, until it is clear that everybody has them available to try.
Confirmed locations with working demo units:
Birmingham, Bull Ring Centre - P4U
Gateshead, Metrocentre - P4U
Glasgow, Siverburn Shopping Centre - P4U
Leeds, Commercial street - P4U
Liverpool, Parker St. - P4U
London, Bond St - P4U
London, Bond St - 3 Store
London, Chingford - Currys/PC World
London, Ilford Exchange - 3 Store
London, Islington Angel - 3 Store (ask to use at your peril! )
London, Kilburn - 3 Store
London, Stratford, Westfiled Centre - P4U & 3 Store
London, Tottenham Court Rd - P4U
London, Westfield Shopping Centre, White City - P4U
London, Wood Green - 3 Store
Manchester, Market St. - P4U
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland St - P4U
Nottingham, Victoria Centre - P4U
Locations with dummy units (just to get a feel of the phone :laugh
Darlington, Yarm Rd - P4U (Currys)
Didcot - 3 Store
Durham - 3 Store
London, Camden Town - 3 Store
London, Clapham Junction - 3 Store
London, Dalston - 3 Store
London, Ealing Boadway - P4U
London, Liverpool Street - 3 Store
London, Oxford Circus (practically right next door to oxford circus station) - 3 Store
London, Stratford, Westfiled Centre - Most phone stores....
Newcastle, Metro Centre - 3 Store, P4U, O2, CPW
Northampton, Abington St - P4U
Northampton, Grosvenor Centre - 3 Store (dummy unit seems to have been stolen!)
Northampton, Peacock Place - No idea what the shop is called, but bottom floor inside Peacock Place :cyclops:
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craftycarper1 said:
Apart from the launch in London P4U store, any news on other demo unit availability?.......are all P4U stores able to show them now?
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Played with the phones yesterday at p4u in oxford street (bond street), however today the store doesnt have any demo units. says they will get demo units soon.
Gonna have a look around later......i read somewhere late yesterday that more P4U stores would have units in today (21st), will be in MK later for some physio, so will try and locate a store there, then back home to Northampton, so i will have a pop in the store here see if i can get lucky.
Posted reply in wrong thread...ooops......anyway,
No luck for me today trying to hunt down a demo unit, 2 P4U stores, 3 CPW stores, Vodafone store, 02 store and EE store, no luck.:crying:
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Posted reply in wrong thread...ooops......anyway,
No luck for me today trying to hunt down a demo unit, 2 P4U stores, 3 CPW stores, Vodafone store, 02 store and EE store, no luck.:crying:
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I don't know about stores in the rest of the uk but a few phones 4 us in london and three stores are expecting demo units next week between the 26th-1st
So, apart from someone elsewhere saying they tried one out in a Birmingham store, and some stores saying they are getting them soon, do we have any definite sightings yet?
I would like to try and populate the OP with store locations so people can go and try for themselves.
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So, apart from someone elsewhere saying they tried one out in a Birmingham store, and some stores saying they are getting them soon, do we have any definite sightings yet?
I would like to try and populate the OP with store locations so people can go and try for themselves.
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Yes there is definate sightings in london. The phones 4 u store in bond street that did the launch now have a display model however, you can't check out the camera/video or front camera or music in headphones because of the way they secured the phone.
The three store also down bond street a bit further up (opposite selfriges) had a clean demo yesterday i.e it wasn't bolted to anything so i got to test out camera/video, front camera/video, audio, phone calls in the shop and got to walk around in the shop with the phone to test out the camera on different subjects. I don't know if they would have bolted the phone down now but I am glad I went in search again yesterday as i finally got to play with it without any restrictions as such (apart from obviously not being allowed to go out the shop with it)
I thought HTC distributed demo units for reviewers,but 4 days later still no reviews apart 1 or 2 short amateur videos.
Good thread idea! I'm going to go searching Oxford Street sometime next week, I take it it's only the Bond Street stores?
Definitely not in P4U in Manchester Market Street. Person said check in first two weeks of march but not to quote her on that
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Dont worry there will be lots of vids from MWC shortly
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There is one in the birmingham bull ring p4u store
Had a play the other day very nice
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There is one in the birmingham bull ring p4u store
Had a play the other day very nice
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Thanks Phil, OP updated, was it you in another thread that said you had a play in a Birmingham store?
It has been advised by the HTC staff that go around demoing the phones to shops that the demo units are running atleast 2 month old software and is not retail software.
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Thanks Phil, OP updated, was it you in another thread that said you had a play in a Birmingham store?
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yer i mentioned it on the uk pre order thread
So, any more of you lucky folk in the UK found somewhere to play with the One?
hello Guys I have a update for this thread.
Three store islington angel - London has a demo unit however the guy is such a pr**k and won't let anyone play with it. He claims it is his personal phone when I know it isn't because I saw him in the morning but because I had to go somewhere i said to him i will come back after he said ok. When I went back he was on lucnh and I asked the staff they said I would have to wait for him to come back as he was the only one with the demo and demoing it to customers then when he came hes telling me its his personal phone.
I thought you know what let me leave it because the staff in the three store in islington angel are FOS anyway, no wonder when I walk past it is always empty and there is like 6 or so staff members sitting in there twiddling their thumbs or talking aboslute rubbish amongst themselves on top of that they are absolutely clueless about phones but that's another matter.
Also three store in Kilburn - London also has a demo unit thankfully they let you play with it. So far all the three stores that have the demo units they are not bolted down to anything, the staff members have it around their necks.
Thanks chief, OP updated.:good:
I was in my local 3 store (AGAIN) yesterday looking for a unit to play with, the young lad who approached me as i walked in store asked if i was after anything, i said i wanted a One to play with, he told me that it was only announced a couple of days ago......i told him i already had it on pre order since last Tuesday, he sort of looked as if i was lying, then said they wouldn't have any for a while because it's not out yet, i pointed out the Xperia Z that they have had for the last few weeks wasn't out either and he just shrugged his shoulders, i then pointed at the big A frame in the store front that showed a big pre order poster with the One on it.....again he just shrugged.......kids eh?
haha yea, i swear it never ceases to amaze me how little the people who work in these retail outlets (not just phones) know about their products.
usually i just nod and agree when i realise that i know more than they do lol
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haha yea, i swear it never ceases to amaze me how little the people who work in these retail outlets (not just phones) know about their products.
usually i just nod and agree when i realise that i know more than they do lol
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Cant agree more but at least you can cut straight through the BS though and put them on the spot
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Thanks chief, OP updated.:good:
I was in my local 3 store (AGAIN) yesterday looking for a unit to play with, the young lad who approached me as i walked in store asked if i was after anything, i said i wanted a One to play with, he told me that it was only announced a couple of days ago......i told him i already had it on pre order since last Tuesday, he sort of looked as if i was lying, then said they wouldn't have any for a while because it's not out yet, i pointed out the Xperia Z that they have had for the last few weeks wasn't out either and he just shrugged his shoulders, i then pointed at the big A frame in the store front that showed a big pre order poster with the One on it.....again he just shrugged.......kids eh?
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Hopefully next week we should be able to play around with the phone in at least a couple of stores without a trip to london or birmingham.
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Has it arrived at stores yet for testing?
I know atleast one Verizon store has one here in Springfield.
Went into a VZ store today and they said they couldn't put them out until the 29th
I was at the mall on Sunday and they had a real one behind the desk for people to try. They also had a non-functional sample to see the size/shape/weight of it.
I was browsing the best buy store in fountain valley and saw a guy carried 3 new transformer to the store from the truck. I inquired the manager about it and he told me that the stock acer distributed to Frys did not make to the store untill now. According to him each store in Socal has 3 in stock. Just an FYI for people who want it now
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I was browsing the best buy store in fountain valley and saw a guy carried 3 new transformer to the store from the truck. I inquired the manager about it and he told me that the stock acer distributed to Frys did not make to the store untill now. According to him each store in Socal has 3 in stock. Just an FYI for people who want it now
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Acer or Asus?
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I was browsing the best buy store in fountain valley and saw a guy carried 3 new transformer to the store from the truck. I inquired the manager about it and he told me that the stock acer distributed to Frys did not make to the store untill now. According to him each store in Socal has 3 in stock. Just an FYI for people who want it now
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Sorry, asus transformer fry's electronic. I was thinking best buy when I wanted to write Frys. Sorry
Not available for shipping, 0 in stock locally.
Fry's is crap. I've been trying since Tuesday.
The online website would say it's in stock (anaheim and sometimes ventura/city of industry/fountain valley).
I call, they say "i think we have one, please hold".... they come back and say "sorry no".
Website for HOURS still say it's available in store.
I place multiple orders for store pickup at those stores.
10 minutes later get an email saying it's not in stock and will be cancelled.
I live 45 minutes away from a Fry's (Anaheim and City of Industry), so I can't just go and check I need them to hold one for me.
Also being Fry's... I would not be surprised if these units are returned by customers and they put it back into the system. That's why it keeps popping up as available.
wow, sorry that you have to make a huge effort to own a tablet. Anyway, it looks like you finally got one at fry's. It is a great device and it will make all the troubles worth it. I can only laugh with you about how the transformer's availabilty is so limited that makes people searching high and low for the product.
I was wondering when the in store pickup would go live for Best Buy.
I went to the site just now & it still said to pre-order.
Out of curiosity I added the item to my cart. I was then presented with being able to pick the item up in the store. I was able to enter my zip code to see what stores in my area would have one. I was surprised to see that some stores had them, while others did not. I went ahead and pre-ordered mine. I'll be able to pick it up tomorrow. I can feel relieved knowing I don't have to rush to the store in the morning.
I called and complained today about that and your post got me excited but no luck here
Hmm. In store pickup doesn't work for me.
It's only showing the Samsung - Galaxy Tab 10.1 - 16GB - Metallic, which is just what I wanted. The others do not seem to qualify for in store pickup yet. It also says not available for shipping anymore for that model as well.
Okay just keep clicking it.. for some reason it worked. Thank-you so much
I wonder how accurate these inventories are. I searched my area, Los Angeles, and it only shows that it's available for pickup at like 4 out 30 locations, all the others say unavailable.
In my area it says none of the Best Buy's around me will have it. That seems very doubtful.
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In my area it says none of the Best Buy's around me will have it. That seems very doubtful.
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Yea, that's what I'm thinking. For me, it's basically showing that no stores in L.A. have it. I'd bet inventory gets updated before opening tomorrow.
I've noticed they have now removed the pre-order button & replaced it with shop now. Also the 32 GB white version is now available in my area. Hopefully they will make updates in other areas as well.
No, just click it! I got a 32gb white to work!!!! Its confirmed
Got mine. Worked thabkyou so much
What's up with the west coast stores? None are showing they have any of the models except a couple stores in Cali that only have the 16gb metallic gray.
Not Available-Dallas Metroplex
Checked BB website at 9:30am Dallas time, none of the 4 versions are available, none. I checked all the stores the site would check for zip code, +/-30 in all, NONE. What a joke, yet again from Tablet Manufacturers.
Talked to a guy last night here in Texas about my 32GB grey one I pre-ordered and he said there were none that had been shipped but to check back around 1 or 2 because that was their afternoon shipment and it might be in then.
This morning I checked and 2 stores had them in stock. Now 4 do. I'd keep checking for those that are discouraged.
Thanks for the tip. Checked online, and website told me that the BB 3 blocks away had them in stock. The clerks didn't even know that they had come in or that they were on sale as of today. I asked them to look it up on their computers, and low and behold, they were sitting in the "cage" in the back room. Walked out with the 32GB Grey.
Not 1 Store in Jersey ????
I was lucky enough to get a Tab on June 8th in NYC. However they only had the White 16BG in stock. Not what I wanted but they said we could swap it out when it hit stores on the 17th. So I woke up early-completely wiped my Tab and went to Best Buy in NJ expecting to swap it out with a black 32GB. To my surprise everyone at Best Buy was in the dark about it. It was like I was speaking a foreign language. They didn't even know the release date. I immediately called Best Buy CS and the girl checked the entire country. They said other than a few stores in FL & 1 in West VA they didn't have any in stores. Might be because they have to fill pre-orders but i find it really disappointing that they send out PR and hype it up as today being the firm launch datea and not one store has them.And no idea when they will be in stock.
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I immediately called Best Buy CS and the girl checked the entire country. They said other than a few stores in FL & 1 in West VA they didn't have any in stores. Might be because they have to fill pre-orders but i find it really disappointing that they send out PR and hype it up as today being the firm launch datea and not one store has them.And no idea when they will be in stock.
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Complete and utter lies. I got a 32GB at a Chicago BB not 15 minutes ago. No pre-order. No deposit. No questions. No sales tax, even.
None of the NY stores have a 32gb in stock according to their website.
I don't know how accurate things are with BB right now. No BB stores around me are showing available online, however my local Fry's has both 16gb and 32gb in stock. I find it hard to believe that the only Fry's in my state has both in stock but no BB's have them.
I just spent 20min waiting outside a T-Mobile store before it opened, the doors finally opened, I tell the rep I would like to buy a Note 4 and to my shock she said "we didn't get any". I called every other store in a 30mi radius and NOBODY has them. So make sure you call before you waste your time driving to the store.
This is all very ironic since I decided not to preorder so I could be one of the first people to get one on launch day I am pretty ticked so I filed a formal complaint, and encourage others to do the same (being polite of course). Stores are suppose to get shipments days in advance of a major product launch.
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I just spent 20min waiting outside a T-Mobile store before it opened, the doors finally opened, I tell the rep I would like to buy a Note 4 and to my shock she said "we didn't get any". I called every other store in a 30mi radius and NOBODY has them. So make sure you call before you waste your time driving to the store.
This is all very ironic since I decided not to preorder so I could be one of the first people to get one on launch day I am pretty ticked so I filed a formal complaint, and encourage others to do the same (being polite of course). Stores are suppose to get shipments days in advance of a major product launch.
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Where the f do you live? On a remote island?
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Where the f do you live? On a remote island?
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Um I live 20 min away from Google headquarters, Facebook etc. So not exactly
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Where the f do you live? On a remote island?
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Its true. I live in NW Houston and working in SE Houston/Pasadena area so I called a lot of stores near home and work and about half of them said that Note 4 is sold out (calling within 9am-930am) and the rest said they are still waiting for the shipment and some said they only do store orders and directly shipping it to my home address. One store told me to hurry up in the afternoon because they are only getting 4 units. WTF?
Wow, only 4? I wonder if Samsung is to blame or if it's T-Mobile. Or both. I haven't heard of any other carriers having supply issues yet.
Thank you for lesson learned. I have it since this past Monday already.
Are you trying to save $6 on the shipping?
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Thank you for lesson learned. I have it since this past Monday already.
Are you trying to save $6 on the shipping?
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I mentioned I didn't preorder since I wanted to have it as soon as possible, I didn't feel like waiting for the UPS truck to show up. I called the minute preorders were up, they said I would get it on the 17th probably in the afternoon.
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Its true. I live in NW Houston and working in SE Houston/Pasadena area so I called a lot of stores near home and work and about half of them said that Note 4 is sold out (calling within 9am-930am) and the rest said they are still waiting for the shipment and some said they only do store orders and directly shipping it to my home address. One store told me to hurry up in the afternoon because they are only getting 4 units. WTF?
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Sorry to hear you haven't had any luck locating a store with Note 4's in stock.
I'm south of Houston & planned to walk into a store to pick one up but decided to pre-order instead...certainly worked out for the better.
I called 6 different Corp stores and they all said shipment got botched and hopefully ups is delivering them today. Non Corp stores have them. Any reason not to go to a non Corp. At AT&T I got screwed by going non Corp
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I called 6 different Corp stores and they all said shipment got botched and hopefully ups is delivering them today. Non Corp stores have them. Any reason not to go to a non Corp. At AT&T I got screwed by going non Corp
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I've never gone to a non corporate store to get a phone. I know there are some things 3rd party stores can't do. It's kind of funny I actually work in mobile sales for a major company but we don't sell T-Mobile so I have to go get one at a store like everyone else. Our store actually only had 3 to sell as of last night when I got off(the rest of the shipment we got was all in store pickups for preorders) and I mentioned to management how BS that was.
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I mentioned I didn't preorder since I wanted to have it as soon as possible, I didn't feel like waiting for the UPS truck to show up. I called the minute preorders were up, they said I would get it on the 17th probably in the afternoon.
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Now that we know, ordering at the store is not it. Now you can tell UPS to hold your package while its on its way and you just pick it up at the service center. Everyone that live near KY gets free upgrade to next day air.
Got mine this morning at 10am. Showed up to the store at 9 and they told me they didn't have any and when I called at 10 they told me they had gotten 10 in and to hurry
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As of 12:00 a vast majority of the stores in the bay area don't have any but one had a few whites and another had a few white and one black.
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I just spent 20min waiting outside a T-Mobile store before it opened, the doors finally opened, I tell the rep I would like to buy a Note 4 and to my shock she said "we didn't get any". I called every other store in a 30mi radius and NOBODY has them. So make sure you call before you waste your time driving to the store.
This is all very ironic since I decided not to preorder so I could be one of the first people to get one on launch day I am pretty ticked so I filed a formal complaint, and encourage others to do the same (being polite of course). Stores are suppose to get shipments days in advance of a major product launch.
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I was the same. I was really mad. but I got mine from a different store. The funny thing is all the guys at tmobile had a new shirt has the next big thing is here and they have nothing in stock
I played with the Note 4 for a bit but going to probably wait and see how I like the Nexus 6. The store only had a few left of the 8 they got.
I called 10 stores this morning in my area for 2 white (for a friend - got mine Wed). 7 had sold out already, 2 will not get their shipments in until after 3pm and 1 had 2 left. Unfortunately, they won't hold them so he's gonna try his luck at those 2 stores since the last store is an hour and half drive and likely won't be stocked when he gets there.
From what the stores told me, most of them got 2 white and 2 black and received their shipment later than expected but still sold out quickly. I'm surprised - they had so many s5 on launch day but I guess the Note 4 is a different breed!
same here some stores hadnt gotten the shipment yet. but i found one that did so i got mine.
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same here some stores hadnt gotten the shipment yet. but i found one that did so i got mine.
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Guess samsung just wants to "sell out"
So much for Samsung spending millions on marketing and promoting their phones only to mess up their store launch day
Well I dont even know if this is Samsung's or Tmo's fault.
Oh, there one store 60 miles away from me expecting the delivery in 30 mins. Crossing my fingers that I'll be able to get one 2 hrs from now. Cant leave work yet
all the other stores said to call or go back at 11 am to 2 pm to see if they already had them.
a tad bit angry at myself, atm.
i asked one of the tmobile stores on that spreadsheet to give me a call when the n6s are up for sale, knowing that tmobes delayed in-store purchases for a week. really wasn't expecting anything and was just content with gp finally charging my card last night.
anyhow, five mins ago i got a call from that store saying that they received their shipment and they would sell me one... right now. normally i'd be super stoked, but gp chrg is not cancellable anymore and i'm not going to make another debit/credit transaction just because i'm impatient.
so... call your stores... NOW. you may get lucky. you may not. pretty sure the dude wasn't supposed to sell me one, but was glad he tried to help me out. this particular store in tx, btw (houston area).
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a tad bit angry at myself, atm.
i asked one of the tmobile stores on that spreadsheet to give me a call when the n6s are up for sale, knowing that tmobes delayed in-store purchases for a week. really wasn't expecting anything and was just content with gp finally charging my card last night.
anyhow, five mins ago i got a call from that store saying that they received their shipment and they would sell me one... right now. normally i'd be super stoked, but gp chrg is not cancellable anymore and i'm not going to make another debit/credit transaction just because i'm impatient.
so... call your stores... NOW. you may get lucky. you may not. pretty sure the dude wasn't supposed to sell me one, but was glad he tried to help me out. this particular store in tx, btw (houston area).
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took your advice and yes, they got them in where i live. The rep said he couldn't sell me one but i could come play with one if i wanted.
A store has them here in Indianapolis. The person working there said I can come in to see it.
Can confirm. Store in my area received shipment today as well, but they wont sell it until the 19th...because "it isn't in their system". FML.
Do we know if they will have the white version?
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Do we know if they will have the white version?
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It has been covered many times. No white. Seems like white is Motorola and Google Play only for now. All the carriers that have announced the phone are all getting blue only.
This is sounding more and more that Google is making them hold back sales until their first round of Play store orders are shipped.
I called every store in my area. they seem to have it but they wont sell it until the 19th
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It has been covered many times. No white. Seems like white is Motorola and Google Play only for now. All the carriers that have announced the phone are all getting blue only.
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I was still holding out hope.
Yep...it's definitely showing up in various Tmobile stores today.
http://www.reddit.com/r/nexus6/comments/2mbdy5/nexus_6_demo_phone_at_tmobile/
I wonder if this is only showing up at the stores that were supposedly slated to get them according to the spreadsheet last week? Anyone heard of one showing up at a store that WASN'T listed on the spreadsheet?
Got to handle one on Indianapolis.
Sounds like all stores have received pricing but only a few have actually started receiving demo units. Early word is that they will start selling them in stores on the 19th. Take that with a grain of salt, it's just what some of the T-mobile reps are saying.
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Got to handle one on Indianapolis.
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Where at? Is it just a demo unit or have they actually received a shipment?
Castleton mall it would just a demo
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I did not ask if they have stock I was just happy to play with a demo
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Got to handle one on Indianapolis.
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Nice review...
Driving home I will post something about it when I get home
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Called two local stores today, they don't say they have it but are telling me they will have the 19th.
Nope. I just called all my local T-Mobile stores, and they said they have it, but can't sell it until the 19th.