Apple introduced two versions this year iPhone 17 Pro, one for the USA and one for the rest of the world, and since the one for the USA has two hours longer battery life, we wanted to go for this version. iPhone 17 Pro, which I receive every year, I left to my wife, with the understanding that I would buy the version without a SIM card slot in the US, which offers two hours longer battery life than the version sold in Europe. You think that in New Yorkwhere are they Apple Store It won't be a problem to find stores on every corner iPhone 17 ProUnfortunately, they are not available everywhere and appear from time to time maxat least 256GB versions or models MaxI would like a 1TB version of the classic myself. iPhone 17 Pro and honestly, I don't really care what color it is anymore. Unfortunately, the phones are unavailable in Appel Store stores throughout the country New Yorku, New Jersey and also New Orleans, where I'm going.
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What's quite funny is that you can't order them at a branch, but you can order the phone only with delivery to the address and they will deliver it to you. Apple will deliver in 2-3 weeks, which means that you have to know what address you will be at at that time. Of course, I understand that for locals who live here it is no problem, but if you are traveling, you have to commit to it and you do not yet know exactly when the phone will be delivered to you. Option nochat reserve the phone at the branch even after paying the full price of the phone Apple for some unknown reason, it does not offer it. Operators only have phones tied to their network and AmazonThey have it with delivery in 14 days and $150 more than the official price. As it looks like, I'll just have to try my luck and go Apple Store od Apple A hundred, of course.ance, that they will have the phone in stock there is almost zero. It is strange that in 2025, even if you go to a country where it is Apple at home, so you basically don't haveancand get a phone. The question is whether there is such a huge interest in it or the problem is that there are not enough of them Apple In short, he ordered little for production.
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I bought this in Japan this year and got the last piece for 1TB, really by chance and I was lucky that I was there on the day of the launch and thanks to the gradually canceling reservations, with a little luck I was able to buy it the next day in Apple century, however, I also wanted to "run out" with it, but when booking a store, the payment always failed, for the first time this year I have Apple in Japan, payments with cards issued outside of Japan are blocked, so in Japan it was very well taken care of this year, however, when I saw the queues even 3 days after the start of sales only on reservations, I believe that they will really be in 2-3 weeks, I would never have expected so many people. 🙈 And I also bought their new 40w charger, which is really super compact even with the EU adapter.
And I'm supposed to sit on my ass about this?
This is quite degrading to the era when there were queues for those iPhones. I was also attracted to the eSim version, but the idea of coming to a country where eSim is not supported and I wouldn't actually use the phone there is also something that puts people off quite a bit.
Where are esims not supported?
So many words and yet about absolutely nothing.
You don't know how it is with the restrictions in iOS for eu, when you use on your phone Apple US account?
Setting up a US Account, as long as the Czech Republic region is set in the system, does not affect EU restrictions. I have been using a US account for a long time and still have practically all the restrictions. But I didn't try to set the region to US, that might help, you have to google it. Anyway, then it would be necessary/ideal to set the display of dates, times, etc., since it will give US formats.
What about the US version of 17 pro? Does it have the same bands for 5G and will it work well here?
It won't, it's stupid to buy it there.
Can I ask for a response from the author of the article?
Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it...
I'm sorry, but in 2025 you don't even have enough intelligence to write that in chatgpt? Even that stupid tool will show you how pointless your answer is and how stupid you've made yourself.
Absolutely fine. You just have to buy the unlocked version. I've bought 3 models in the USA this year. I don't agree with what the author says, that it's not possible to order at the store. I pre-ordered it, paid online and had the phone ready in 5 days. Apple Store. Btw, at the current dollar exchange rate (and not only because of that), buying directly in the US will be about 10k cheaper.
I don't understand the fuss. I guess if I see online unavailability, how can I expect full stores? America or Europe, it doesn't matter. ProThis year, there is a lot of interest. Apparently, they managed to get the old waiting list moving, even though it's not such a hit parade. A change in 4 years or more is already decent. Only those stupid EU regulations are ruining it for us, even though there is zero support for Czech. Here, the EU should order that it be in all EU languages, otherwise it's discrimination and the impossibility of using the declared functions :)
There is not much interest, just Apple he's not so stupid to make such a lot of them and then leave them lying around somewhere. I see in our order system and compared to 16 it's a pittance. What sells well is Air.
So this is a terrible tragedy... People are suffering from war, hunger and your problem is that you can't buy a phone in a brick-and-mortar store in the USA and you have to wait 2-3 weeks for delivery... Some people never even get to the USA in their life
Sorry, next time on the website about Apple I'll write about the fact that you don't have €1000 for a plane ticket...
These are called first world problems. In this case, still 1% of the first world :-)
Exactly. We are introverted. And yet the solution is simple. Don't buy it, wait a year, not only will the phones be there, but the price will drop. But people don't know what to do with their money.
So if you didn't want the stupid 1TB version, you've had it for a long time. I absolutely don't understand why anyone would want 1TB in their phone.