[Update] Fido iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Start on Friday, October 7th at 6AM EDT

By Gary Ng on October 6th, 2011 118

Update 1: Try the following if you are getting an error on the Fido website (via Chris and Adam in the comments):

To anyone else reading this, go update your email address in your Fido profile. Log-out. Login. Try and Reserve again. Repeat the process until your email address auto-propogates when Reserving, and it will work.

Fido will allow users to pre-order the iPhone 4S on Friday, October 7th at 6AM EDT, according to a posting by a moderator in the Fido Forums:

Hi everyone,

That is correct. You will be able to reserve an iPhone 4S as of October 7th online in the MyAccount and then selecting PHONE RESERVATION.

We do not yet have any information regarding the prices or the date that it will become available. I would suggest keeping posted to our website as it will be updated as soon as we receive any news.

Cheers

A tweet was also sent out earlier by @FidoMobile:

Existing customers can reserve the iPhone 4S through the Fido Reservation System starting Oct.7.

The time wasn’t confirmed as 6AM EDT (3AM PDT), but since Rogers is offering iPhone 4S pre-orders at 6AM EDT, this only makes sense the times would be the same. We have yet to hear from Bell regarding pre-orders for the iPhone 4S. Telus is offering iPhone 4S pre-orders at 3AM EDT (12AM PDT).

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  • thefstop

    I just went from OPEN, Position in line 584 (iPhone 4S, Black 16BG) to In Progress – CANT WAIT

  • AJ

    Well it wouldn’t normally matter that much if I just get it next week, but in my case the Fido account is in my dad’s name and he is going back to France on Saturday, so it doesn’t look good since he has to be there to pick it up!

  • AJ

    What’s the point of pre-ordering if the phone is released tomorrow and as of now I’m status open, position 1353, for the iPhone White 4S 64GB, can’t I just go to the fido location near my home, wait in line and ask for one?! 

  • Beil

    Sure you can, if you’ve got nothing better to do. Keep in mind they might still not have one at the store for you as they aren’t getting endless supplies of them.

  • Beil

    @AJ, You might want to contact Fido by phone to discuss this with them. It sounds like an unusual situation that you may want to deal with before your father heads overseas again.

  • AJ

    I’m still number 1300 something, with open status, for the iPhone 4S 64GB White,  but I went to the Fido store near my home, and just asked for one and they gave it to me, I maybe waited 5min, and that was it, so it clearly was a waste of time to reserve the phone online, cause that means getting it at a later date. So glad I just went to the store!

  • Beil

    Glad you sorted this out. You clearly live somewhere where the stores get a decent number of phones. The Fido store her got a pathetic 40 (yes, forty) new iPhone 4S’s today. That’s it.

  • AJ

    I went, waited 5min, and got my phone lol. I’m still no.1300 on the other hand, that hasn’t moved so I’m so glad I didn’t wait!

  • AJ

    Yeah I did, they just made me a Level 1, which means I don’t need him to be with me, I can just make decisions and pick up the phone on my on, but it doesn’t matter now, cause i just went to the store with him, and got the phone and canceled the reservation/

  • Beil

    So… Is anyone here who pre-ordered through Fido (not Apple directly) seeing a status other than “Open” or “In Progress” as of Saturday morning, Oct. 15th? Has anyone here actually received a 4S via a Fido pre-order yet?

  • David

    Not me. Mine has said “In Progress” since Thursday afternoon…

  • Marshall Brown11

    How much did it cost you?

  • Vinster

    Didn’t you lost your down payment ? The guy told me that I would loose my pre-order down payment if I canceled  it now to buy a new one (that was friday)

  • David

    I got my iPhone 4S (Black, 64GB) today. I was #220 when I pre-ordered, and #214 just before it went from “Open” to “In Progress”.

    Pretty nice phone. Light years beyond my crippled 3G…

  • Beil

    I actually got a call about our 4S’s around noon today. We were 219 and 252 for the 64 and 32. But, since I had happened upon a couple of 4s’s during the weekend, I told the store they could put our reserved ones back into the pool. The reservation system worked, yes, but the vague status of “In Progress” didn’t really help to let me know how where things were at enough. Still, it was handy to book a couple of handsets from day one (and WAY better than the painful iPhone 4 launch.)

    And yes, these 4s’s are awesome, especially compared to our 3G handsets. I quite like dictating stuff to Siri, especially emails. I look forward to the arrival of her location awareness.

  • AJ

    About $415 Tax in (It’s like $369+Tax).

  • AJ

    No, I was open though, not in process, so it was easy to cancel, plus they said it from the beginning that the $40 was gonna be subtracted from the next bill. So u pretty much will pay $40 more now, but $40 less next month.

  • Farzyj

    your plan does not necessarily get cancelled…. I also had to pay the penalty, but they said I could keep my plan…although I changed it cuz I found better plans..

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