Waiting

Gah! I can barely contain my excitement to receive my new iPhone 4S on Friday. My Apple online store order status is “Prepared for shipment” so it should be on its way soon.

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(I’m hoping Apple will use UPS for my order this time – the UPS guy who delivers to our area is great and usually hits our neighborhood in the morning.)

On a related note, my favorite app for tracking packages is Delivery Status touch by Junecloud (link opens iTunes). I do most of my shopping online and once I enter tracking numbers in this app, I can see the current ETA and other information for each one easily. I can guarantee you I will enter the tracking number for my iPhone 4S into Delivery Status touch as soon as I get it. And I’ll probably check it about 5,563 times until it arrives at my door.

You may think I’m exaggerating with that number. I’m not.

Anyway, my trusty iPhone 4 is still going strong and at this point, I will not be updating it to iOS 5 on Wednesday since it’s currently jailbroken and unlocked and I want to keep it that way for the moment. I’m not sure about whether or not I’m going to sell it since I might keep it around as a testing device. Though my car is now due for new brakes (thank you, handy brake pad wear indicator warning light), which will cost me a pretty penny so we’ll see.

If you’re thinking of selling an older iPhone to upgrade to the iPhone 4S, check out this handy guide I wrote for everythingiCafe. Though it was written just before the release of the iPhone 4 last year, the information there is still very relevant.

If you want to try an electronics reseller service instead of going through eBay, craigslist or similar, I used Gazelle to get rid of my first-generation iPad to upgrade to the iPad 2 and my review of how that worked for me is up on my old blog here.

If you get your iPhone 4S early, please comment here so that I may rant and rave in a fit of violent nerd jealousy. I will then curse your name to the heavens until the moment my own iPhone 4S arrives, at which point I will see nothing but my precioussss for at least a few hours.