Pre ordering new iPhone in the UK........!?

[JayJamesWaller]

Going by these it looks a little positive for us on O2,
https://twitter.com/o2/status/242999181260771328
https://twitter.com/o2/status/243259305636265984

 

[RustyRooy]

Going by these it looks a little positive for us on O2,
https://twitter.com/o2/status/242999181260771328
https://twitter.com/o2/status/243259305636265984

sounds good eh:]

 

[JayJamesWaller]

It seems more carriers are starting to admit to a Nano Sim of some sort, or at least that they will stock a new sim if it is needed in a phone. Here's hoping O2 stock them before the release so I can just go and pick one up before hand,

 

[StuartMoore]

Hi again.

Just returned from offshore. The day before coming home, I rang O2 and asked about nano sims. The guy said that they had a shipment on standby awaiting the announcement of the iPhone 5. So basically, if the iPhone 5 needs a nano sim, O2 will supply us all one. So I'd imagine this is gonna be the same for all other major UK carriers.......looks like good news. Just need to bag myself a pre order now!!

 

[JayJamesWaller]

Great news that! Yepp, just need to keep the finger on the trigger and hope for the best when pre-ordering this next week,

 

[RustyRooy]

do you reckon i could keep my old number even though my old sim is cut-down?

 

[Apple fanboy]

Black countraaayy

I'm from Brierley Hill..



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So will you be getting it from Merry Hill or going into Brum to the apple store? That's what I did for the 4 release. Was in the first batch of 10 people in the store. I haven't made up my mind what I'll do this time yet.

 

[03sho]

do you reckon i could keep my old number even though my old sim is cut-down?

People can keep their own number even when switching to a different network.

It shouldn't be a problem.

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The Metro say we will be able to pre order from the 14th
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/911307-...order-from-september-14-apple-set-to-announce

 

[RustyRooy]

People can keep their own number even when switching to a different network.

It shouldn't be a problem.

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The Metro say we will be able to pre order from the 14th
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/911307-...order-from-september-14-apple-set-to-announce

thought the same,thanks for the reply.

 

[stu.h]

So will you be getting it from Merry Hill or going into Brum to the apple store? That's what I did for the 4 release. Was in the first batch of 10 people in the store. I haven't made up my mind what I'll do this time yet.

Pre-ordering online.

 

[TomAndrews]

Does anyone know if you can preorder an unlocked iphone from the apple website? (paying in full ~£500)

Or are preorders just for iphones locked to a contract?

 

[ct2k7]

Does anyone know if you can preorder an unlocked iphone from the apple website? (paying in full ~£500)

Or are preorders just for iphones locked to a contract?

Unlocked.

 

[theking79]

Does anyone know if you can preorder an unlocked iphone from the apple website? (paying in full ~£500)

Or are preorders just for iphones locked to a contract?

Look at the iPhones on the online apple store right now and you will find out.

 

[0dev]

I hoping to move over to Giff Gaff, so fingers crossed they get things in place.......

I've been on giffgaff for about two years and I can tell you that they take a long time to get things in place. They didn't even support BlackBerries until just a few months ago and they only got Micro SIMs very recently.

If you can't just cut down a Micro SIM to make a Nano SIM then we may have to wait a few months before we can use the iPhone 5 on giffgaff

 

[AdamskiUK]

I've been on giffgaff for about two years and I can tell you that they take a long time to get things in place. They didn't even support BlackBerries until just a few months ago and they only got Micro SIMs very recently.

If you can't just cut down a Micro SIM to make a Nano SIM then we may have to wait a few months before we can use the iPhone 5 on giffgaff

I'm having the same problem. I'm going to have to pay for the 30 day rolling contract with Three. It's quite similar. For £9.90 you get something like 200 mins, 5k texts and 500mb. I rarely use anything higher than this, and until EE come out and say that they have 4G coverage I don't care about massive data limits.

Saying that, I'm a good 20 miles outside Manchester (one of the supported 4G cities) and so it looks like I probably won't get it anyway.

Apple better come out with something good.

 

[daveishere]

Going by these it looks a little positive for us on O2,
https://twitter.com/o2/status/242999181260771328
https://twitter.com/o2/status/243259305636265984

sounds very good, although the acknowledgement of the existance of a nano-sim card isn't ground breaking, i'm pretty sure it was certified as a GSM standard a few months ago.

 

[theking79]

I'm having the same problem. I'm going to have to pay for the 30 day rolling contract with Three. It's quite similar. For £9.90 you get something like 200 mins, 5k texts and 500mb. I rarely use anything higher than this, and until EE come out and say that they have 4G coverage I don't care about massive data limits.

Saying that, I'm a good 20 miles outside Manchester (one of the supported 4G cities) and so it looks like I probably won't get it anyway.

Apple better come out with something good.

I'm in giffgaff and am going to do exactly the same. I'm going on the 3 £12 a month rolling contract with unlimited data etc.

That's until giffgaff finally get nano sims.

 

[mandos01]

Is there any way of getting an alert once pre orders are live? Might be a bit optimistic with this though lol

 

[Mystic Eddy]

Is there any way of getting an alert once pre orders are live? Might be a bit optimistic with this though lol

By the time your brain has had time to process the 'alert', you could have hit F5 repeatedly a gazillion times and had one pre-ordered .

 

[tarsins]

Vodaphone stocking nano SIMS.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/47443/vodafone-nano-sim-iphone-5-ready

 

[RustyRooy]

when will we know what date pre-orders start,take it apple says that in the keynote later on? thanks in advance:]

 

[0dev]

We don't know for sure if the iPhone 5 uses a Nano SIM yet, but if it does it looks impossible to cut another type of SIM into one:

Richard Lai, the editor of Engadget China, reported yesterday a claim by the CTO of Hong Kong mobile phone operator PCCW that it is “near impossible to cut existing SIM cards into the nano-SIM shape” because the “contact pins on current SIM cards are too big [and] will be damaged” if a nano punch is used.

Then there’s the fact that unlike the other standard SIM cards, the Nano-SIM is thinner, by 0.09mm. It might not sound a lot, but that’s 12 per cent less than the micro-SIM in the iPhone 4S.

And unless you manage to delicately shave extra plastic at the back of the SIM card (known as the card body), it is unlikely to fit in the SIM slot of the iPhone 5.

 

[AdamskiUK]

I'm in giffgaff and am going to do exactly the same. I'm going on the 3 £12 a month rolling contract with unlimited data etc.

That's until giffgaff finally get nano sims.

Tbqh, might stick with 3. GiffGaff won't get 4G until after O2 so I'll swap to EE towards the beginning of 2013