Apple started to take pre-orders for the iPhone 4 on Tuesday for both the 8GB handset and the 32GB handset, which will retail for $199 and $299 respectively. Apple said pre-ordered iPhones should ship by June 24. The first orders, however, had a few errors.
“The iPhone 4 pre-order launch did not go off without a few snags. At 6 a.m., Computerworld bloggers reported that the the U.S. Apple Store was flashing error messages,” writes Mathew Shaer. The site apparently went down for at least an hour, and was back up at 8 a.m., at which point Computerworld staff successfully pre-ordered an iPhone 4. Meanwhile, the Register reported that the U.K. Apple Store had apparently crumpled under heavy traffic.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
