[ad_1]
Apple's new iPhones were sold on Friday, but many Las Vegas residents have not had to worry about the long wait times made famous by the tech company.
At the Apple Summerlin store, customers said their wait times often lasted less than 15 minutes after booking the phone in advance.
"The process was painless," said James Vakos, 66, a resident of Summerlin, who wore an Apple watch and a white Apple Store bag. "I probably waited five minutes before being called in the store."
The new Apple phone in store starts at $ 999. The iPhone XS replaces the iPhone X by a screen that unfolds widely from one edge to the other, thus eliminating the surrounding frame with the home button. Many tasks require sweeps rather than pressure and the fingerprint sensor is replaced with facial recognition to unlock the phone.
The iPhone XS MAX costs $ 1,099. Essentially the "Plus" version of the iPhone XS, the phone is about the size of the Plus, but with more space for display.
Jade Yap, 41, a resident of Las Vegas, said he has tried other brands of smartphones in the past, but the seamless integration between Apple products makes him come back.
"I tried to switch to Samsung, the Note, and then I discovered that it was difficult to convert it to another product," he said. "Everything is so closely linked nowadays."
The timing of the new releases came just in time for 32-year-old Las Vegas resident Stephen Black, who dropped his iPhone 6 in the tub two weeks ago.
"I'm excited," he said. "We have everything Apple."
Apple will launch the iPhone XR next month, with a price of $ 749. As with the XS models, buyers will have an edge-to-edge screen to minimize wasted space. There is more screen than the ordinary XS, but the phone itself is bigger, but not as big as the Max. The XR will not have a dual lens camera, although Apple says it can provide a blurred background with the software.
Contact Bailey Schulz at [email protected] or at 702-383-0233. To follow @bailey_schulz on Twitter. Associated Press contributed to this report.
1985 Plaza Dr Festival, Las Vegas, NV 89135
[ad_2]
Source link
