Retail employee prevents cancellation of AirPod sale by spilling shipping date

If you’ve been waiting too many weeks to finally see your wireless AirPods on your doorstep, you now have new solace to keep on the pre-order line and not cancel.

A customer named Harald called into the customer service of German tech retail chain Conrad to cancel his AirPods pre-order, locked in on October 14. The representative, perhaps wanting to save a sale and weighing various factors, decided to try and convince Harald to keep his pre-order on. And they were successful in doing so.

Why? Well, Harald told Apfelpage.de that he was told that Conrad would have stock starting around November 17 and that deliveries could happen the next day or the day after. Reportedly. And, so far as we can track this, only in Germany.

Perhaps Apple is finally ready not to stall its customers from realizing their $150+ investment any further. We shall see.

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HTC handling Pixel after-sales care in India

Correction: An earlier version of this story mentioned that the Pixel phones are on sale in India from today. They are on pre-sale. Pocketnow regrets the error.Google’s replacement for the Nexus line, the Pixel and Pixel XL, is on pre-order starting today and will be available in over 1,000 stores in time for your Diwali festivities. And while the phone is branded as one “Made by Google,” ...

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Canadian retailer NCIX offers BlackBerry DTEK60 for $700, says product arrives October 11

BlackBerry teased the DTEK50 to bits without ever giving its name before the company unceremoniously plopped the phone onto its online store for pre-orders straight away. We may expect Waterloo to make it a repeat for the rumored, unofficial DTEK60.Sure, CEO John Chen

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ZTE Axon 7 sales officially begin, keeps $399.98 price tag

Sources in China reported that ZTE was planning on launching the Axon 7 at the same price it did so for the Axon Pro last year — $450.Well, it’s been a day over two months since we learned of this quite impressive phone. The pre-order period is over and done with in the US and sales have officially begun at the price ...

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First batch of Turing Phones shipping July 12

Those who have stuck with Turing for the long run have been waiting on final shipping dates. Forget the fact that the company switched out a secured version of Android for Sailfish OS or even the fact this Turing Phone has “liquid metal” or whatever, you’ve waited nearly a year for this device with good money sunk into it, you’re going to get it.Well, you probably got an email from ...

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Pre-ordered a T-Mobile Galaxy S7? It may fast be on your way

If you’re a Galaxy S7 pre-order-er hitched to T-Mobile, you might have gotten a few emails from your friendly underwater Un-carrier saying that there’s a shipping label you should track.Indeed, one Redditor has clearly seen fast progress made on getting their 32GB ...

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Saygus tweetstorms on the V2’s Snapdragon 801 and an unreliable ODM

Saygus had the uberphone of 2015 at CES — both at last year’s show and this year’s.After a two-month lapse in tweets, Saygus confirmed its CES 2016 projection that shipping will begin within Q1 — another setback from internal sentiment as a February shipping target didn’t account for Chinese factories taking off for the upcoming new year. The Utah-based manufacturer hopes to show off version 3 of its PCB for

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Better now than never: the goTenna is shipping to customers

Remember back in the summer? Not this summer, last one! In the depths of outdoors vacationing season, our Pocketnow Weekly podcast crew wandered into the woods and found goTenna, a Kickstarter project that aimed to provide an interpersonal, long-distance cell network alternative when everything hits the fan in the great nowheres.After 15 months of extra tests, tweaking and regulatory passes, the first units shipped out ...

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Lumia 950 XL pre-orders in the US now shipping

It’s always good news if we can see a new device out the factory door and on the way to yours. The thrill of watching your new phone going from “order confirmed” to “shipped” and “delivered” is one that we here at Pocketnow still have sometimes. Especially if you’re a Windows fan who’s been waiting 20 months for a new flagship.The wait continues, but ...

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Some BlackBerry Priv owners-to-be delayed a bit longer for shipment

The ever-popular BlackBerry Priv. Well, at least it’s popular right now (we’ll wait until Vienna to match up its scale). It’s the star phone for the struggling hardware division of BlackBerry, so it has to 

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Sprint’s playbook leaks possible Nexus 6P shipment date(s)

Didja buy a Nexus 5X? How about that Nexus 6P? Did you buy it from Google? Did you buy it from Huawei? Do you know when you’re getting yours? You might now as we’re chasing tails on some updates from Reddit.First of all, if you want to buy your Nexus 6P from Sprint, sod it. It’s not selling either of the phones. But ...

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