iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Now Pushed Back To July 14

From PC World: Apple has pushed back the delivery date for iPhone 4 advance sales even more. The U.S. Apple Store is now showing that iPhone 4 pre-orders will ship by July 14, a 12-day delay to the original postponed delivery date of July 2.

Apple is having trouble fulfilling the surge of pre-orders that it began taking on June 15, noting in a statement on Wednesday that it has already sold more than 600,000 iPhone 4s.

Pre-ordering an iPhone 4 is not easy job, however. First off, AT&T suspended iPhone 4 pre-orders on Wednesday, only a day after its Web site was overwhelmed with demand from customers.

AT&T's surge of interest didn't just come from new customers, but also from current customers. AT&T extended the new iPhone 4 customer pricing to those whose iPhone contracts expire at any point this year, thus making them eligible for discounted prices starting at $199 (with a refreshed two-year contract).

AT&T's servers couldn't cope with the demand, and crashed early on Tuesday, taking down with them the iPhone 4 pre-ordering system on Apple's own Web site as well. In this process, some reported a glitch that exposed some customers' personal information to other users. AT&T said it was not able to replicate the issue on its end.

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