Happy consumers are now confirming that Apple has sent them shipping notifications via email, informing them that the expected delivery date for their new iPhone will be October 14th, the first official opportunity to pick up the device.
One example of an email has been sent into Engadget, you can see what the email looks like below if you are yet to receive anything from Apple. UPS looks to be Apple’s courier of choice and considering that devices have now left Apple’s warehouse on October 11th, there may even be a handful of lucky consumers who receive their new iPhone 4S before October 14th lands – which would obviously be fairly awesome.
For those of you who are yet to pre-order the new iPhone 4S, you’ll have to wait considerably longer for the device to ship, as Apple has now slapped a 1-2 weeks expected delivery time for all new pre-orders of the device. Demand is obviously sky-high for Apple’s new iPhone, with AT&T being the first US carrier to announce huge pre-order figures on day one.
Unfortunately, that information seems to be false. Ars Technica reached out to Sprint for an official word about this bit of detail, and Sprint categorically denies it. When asked if Sprint’s iPhone 4S does NOT have an unlocked microSIM, Sprint Wireless representative, Michelle Mermelstein says, “That is correct. I believe Verizon’s device works the same way.” If Mermelstein’s correct, that’s killing two birds with one stone — neither Sprint nor Verizon will sell an unlocked iPhone 4S. If you’re traveling, however, don’t worry: you can still use your iPhone 4S in GSM countries using Sprint’s appropriate roaming plans.
One of the worst things about the old Facebook for iPhone app was the grid screen navigation. If users wanted to switch between in-house Facebook apps such as the news feed, Photos, Messages, and notifications, they had to exit their currently used app to the grid screen, then dive back into another app.
This process was both cumbersome and sometimes caused users to lose their place — something especially annoying when one went to look for new Messages or notifications, saw they had none, and wanted to return to the previously used feature. The slowness of switching apps through the grid screen contributed to Facebook spinning out Messages as a standalone app, and preparing a dedicated native Photos app.
Facebook for iPhone 4.0 reduces the friction of app switching through a slide-out navigation menu that is accessible from any screen and houses all in-house and third-party app bookmarks. Users can open the navigation menu, but then easily close it to resume their previous activity.
Despite Facebook confirming with us that it would remove the Places check-in feed from its smartphone apps, users can still see the locations of friends through a renamed in-house app called Nearby. As before, users can view the checkins of friends as a feed or as photos on a map, as well as add their own check-ins.
The app does lack some of Facebook.com’s newest features. There’s no way to subscribe to someone’s public updates or edit your Friend Lists or Smart Lists. Facebook has also removed the ability to filter the news feed by Friend Lists, which previously allowed users to select to only see updates from a subset of friends. Hopefully these features will be integrated soon.
Facebook for iPhone hasn’t received such a major redesign since its launch years ago. At first, some users will surely be grumpy about having to relearn how to navigate the app. With time, though, we believe users will grow to appreciate the streamlined navigation and ability to access their web and native apps. By becoming an app portal and reducing navigation fatigue, Facebook for iPhone’s 100 million MAU milestone could be right around the corner.
Update 10/13/2011: Bugs in Facebook for iPhone 4.0 caused it to fail to load properly once installed. Facebook has since released 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 updates to fix these issues. Delete, re-download, and reinstall the app if you’re experiencing crashes or it fails to load.
In the release notes of Facebook for iPhone 4.0.1, Facebook explained “Notice to Users Upgrading from an older version: If you’re having trouble starting the app after the upgrade, please delete and reinstall it- this has been confirmed to solve the issue. The update fixes an issue that was causing the app to hang or crash for some users when upgrading from an older version.”
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