Here’s exactly when you can pre-order an Apple Watch

We’ve known for a while now that pre-orders for the Apple Watch will begin on April 10th, and now we know when on April 10th. As usual with their penchant for dramatics, Apple have made it so that those wishing to be first in line to pre-order their most personal product yet will need to be ready with their finger over their curser at 12:01 AM Pacific Time on Friday the 10th.

For those of us who are easily confused, that’s just after Midnight on Thursday the 9th. 

Sorry East coasters, this means you’re looking at a very late night/early morning, with pre-orders starting for you guys at 3:01 AM. Ouch.

The pre-orders will be going live at the same time in all of the first wave countries, meaning you have quite a lot of competition for those first Apple Watches, with U.K customers being wide eyed and well awake at their pre-order time of 8:01 AM local time, and Australians being able to pre-order at 5:01 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time.

The Apple online store will be going down at 9 PM on Thursday to prepare for the onslaught, and remember- you can also use the Apple Store App, which might  help you bypass some of the expected congestion where everyone who wants an Apple Watch is fighting you for one.

If you are able to pre-order a shiny Apple Watch, then you can look forward to getting it delivered or picking it up beginning April 24th.

If you’re not sure about this whole Apple Watch thing, you should make a try-on appointment at your local Apple Store to look at your options to see if you really want to drop a minimum of $349 on one of these bad boys. There hasn’t been any clarification yet as to when you can make your try-on appointment, but we’re going to guess that it will be either at the same time as pre-orders start (12:01AM PST) or at the beginning of business on Friday, 8:00 AM or 9:00 AM.

We’ll keep you up to date on everything we know when we know it!

Playstation 4 release date

Previously rumored to be released on November 13th, the much anticipated Playstation 4 now has a confirmed release date!

All you gamers, the more than one million people who have pre-ordered it, and, well, everyone else who’s interested can look forward to getting your hands on the wonderfully fantastic next generation Playstation on-

wait for it-

November 15th! 

Andrew House, president and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment said this about the release:

“We set out to build the most powerful gaming platform with a deeply held, consistent focus on you, the gamer … I’m delighted to say that PlayStation 4 will be launching in 32 countries this holiday season.”

November 13th is also the 319th day of the year, and the day in 1969 that the first Wendy’s restaurant opened. So there you go.

The Playstation 4 will be going up against the XBox One which is yet to announce a release date, but it is believed to be around the same time.

The console will sell for $399.

Yay!

Image courtesy of  Harvey Norman.

New iPhone release speculation

More conjecture recently about the next iPhone release date has proposed that the phone will go into mass production in June, ready for a Fall announcement and public release.

There were earlier suggestions that the phone could be announced at WWDC in June, however now it seems that the consensus is that the main products on display at WWDC will in fact be iOS 7 and OS X 10.9, leaving the new iPhone to be released in the Fall.

Japanese Newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun has reported that Sharp will begin manufacturing LCD panels for the new iPhone in June, which would make sense for a September release.

This would also make sense looking at the history of Apple’s past iPhone release schedule, as although the iPhone 4 was announced at WWDC in 2010, the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5 were both announced in September ( Sept. 27th 2011, and Sept. 12th 2012 respectively).

Just to keep everyone on there toes, popular tech Twitter dude @evleaks posted that Verizon will be offering $100 off the iPhone 5, leaving some to speculate that this is so they can make room for the new iPhone- which points towards an earlier release.

We here at iPhone Antidote suspect that this is not the case, but, as always with Apple,  no one can be a hundred percent sure on exactly when the next iPhone will come out and exactly what features it will include!

Even so, we love playing the game, so we’ll be doing our best to keep you up to date with specs, release date and as much secret source stuff as you can handle! (…About the new iPhone…)

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