Samsung S22 Pre Order Not Working

Samsung had its first Unpacked issue of 2022 earlier today, which gave us our first glimpse at the S22 serial of phones, equally well every bit the Tab S8 series of tablets. The big release here is the (sorta) render of the Notation, at present referred to by a
~~fun~~
new name, the Galaxy S22 Ultra. As a huge proponent of the Galaxy S21, I knew I had to go ahead and pull the trigger on the Milky way S22.

At first, I was troubled by having to decide betwixt my first color choice, burgundy, and the other very compelling colors in the lineup. I’ll be honest, I’m a sucker for basic black, even if it is a chip boring. I also really dig the graphite and crimson options offered simply on Samsung.com. Sky Blueish is likewise tempting to lucifer my iPhone xiii Pro. But ultimately, I but felt that burgundy.

And then allow’s purchase one!

By pre-ordering the Milky way S22 Ultra, I become a costless storage upgrade from 128GB to 256GB. That’s crawly. I rarely, if ever, get above 100GB, but if I discover myself traveling, I might want to download a movie or ten for the trip, and then 256GB it is. I selected my merchandise-ins. Gone soon would be the Milky way S21 Ultra and an old iPhone 6S I had laying around that Samsung will give me $l for. Personally, I found the trade-in deals a niggling weak/weird this twelvemonth. Last yr, T-Mobile lost its mind and let me trade in a Google Pixel 4a for $800 off the S21 Ultra. This twelvemonth, I have to trade in the S21 Ultra for less. It’due south fine; I only demand one Ultra after all.

Next up came the screen asking how I’d similar to spend my $200 in Samsung store credit. It offered me a bunch of overpriced cases and chargers. No thanks. Information technology also offered me the Galaxy Scout 4 and the Milky way Buds Pro, both of which I had already bought. Both of those were purchased using credit I received from previous Samsung phone purchases, by the mode, which brings into question the sustainability of Samsung store credit incentives. Actually, technically, I bought the Milky way Watch iii with past credit, which I then traded in for a Sentinel 4, merely the same question remains. I decided to skip those add together-ons and just go direct to checkout.

Or at least I tried to. Then I tried to again. Then I tried once again. Y'all become the idea.

Samsung's website indicates that I have 9 items in my cart, but also that my cart is empty.

Put but, Samsung’s pre-order website might need a PCR test because it is not feeling very well. Starting merely later on the effect, and leading upward to press time for this article, I’ve been trying to buy a single Milky way S22 Ultra for near six hours. During that time, I’ve attended two piece of work meetings, written an article, eaten luncheon, and hosted a podcast. That’s a adequately productive mean solar day for me. But I nevertheless have not been able to buy a unmarried S22 Ultra.

You may accept noticed, that’southward the second time I’ve used that peculiar phrase, “a single Galaxy S22 Ultra.” That’s considering, during the time that I’ve been fighting with Samsung’due south website, I somehow managed to add a second
Milky way S22
Ultra to my cart, and the last two hours have been spent trying to remove that 2nd telephone. That is, of form, assuming my cart loads at all. So far, the shopping experience hasn’t been awesome.

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Galaxy S22 Ultra in Phantom Black with S Pen. — Andy Boxall/DigitalTrends

From what I’ve seen, sites similar Amazon, All-time Purchase, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are performing just fine. Sadly, my best deal is coming directly from Samsung, and so my struggle will continue for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, it only takes a small amount of multitasking brainpower to click an “Ten” and wait for the spinny ball to stop spinning, so it’s not like I can’t get other things done.

Six hours later, I’one thousand being told that the item is not available at this time. This is great because I don’t desire information technology at this time; I wanted it half-dozen hours ago. For the tape, I get that error message regardless of browser, and regardless of what telephone I select. I tried all three phones with diverse storage configurations and colors and got the same error message every fourth dimension. I’1000 adequately certain the site is only cleaved; Samsung is not out of phones.

So information technology looks like I won’t be ordering a Milky way S22 today. It’due south possible I won’t club one ever now. My experience with the Samsung
Galaxy S22
Ultra has not been very ultra. Only at least it has been noteworthy.