Anyone planning to buy the iphone 17?

Starting the arduous task of activating my wife's new 17Pro. The process involves updating both old iphone and AW 10 to iOS26. The mini12 took 3 hours. I then backed up the Mini12 to the iCloud account. Now I'm upgrading her new AW10 to iOS26 and it is taking so far 2 hours with one more to go. By contrast, I upgrade both my AW Ultra 2 and iphone 15PM in about 75 minutes. The lady at Apple store told me this is important to do the transfer to the new 17Pro. Must be on iOS26 on both AW and Mini 12 iphone.

I ordered a new case for $9.99 with clear and corner bumpers from Amazon. Best Buy had same one for $49.99.
Also ordered her a new power bank with Mag safe and integrated Apple Watch charger. That was $53 with some coupon codes.
 
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The most difficult was the time to upgrade my old iphone 12 to iOS26 and the Apple watch so it would transfer to the new 17Pro. The download to update my AW10 took 4hrs 10 minutes.
The transfer side by side didn't work as the new phone didn't see the old one right next to it. After 3 tries and resetting the new phone I gave up and installed from icloud backup. That took 7 minutes to get started but continued to download the photo library in the background.

They must have fixed the connection with Verizon because I was able to let the process move my phone number over and then is said my old phone's sim is locked. Made some calls and text and all worked well. Glad Apple fixed that.

Had to re-pair the new phone to both Teslas so it would communicate.

I think I'm all done and just need to wait for the return box to arrive to get my $100 credit.
 

US Mobile Customers among us?