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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread

I'm bored of this now.

Have ordered sim free from Apple UK.

Will remain on o2 (for iPhone at least, not iPad) for the unlimited data I get on current tariff.
 
tazzy8907 said:
I have a feeling they (and maybe you) mean just the sim free iphone 4 will be unlocked for life... which is what it says on apple's site... if you know for sure that they meant for contract as well, could you let us know what you asked/they said (I'm outta the country so it's expensive to call :p )
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I am upgrading 2 phones on the 24th and travel quite a bit so need to be sure of this.

i simply asked if the handset would remain unlocked even after being activated through itunes on a contract. each time I asked I was told YES it would always remain unlocked. :):) This has been happening in other european countries for years, why do us brits find it so hard to believe?
 
CD3660 said:
Best place to buy it is eBay. You can get it for about £25 rather than £60.
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problem with ebay is the applecare would initially be in the seller's name, they sell the stuff for you cancel the applecare claim money back and leave u high and dry....... just one of the stories I have heard
 
ensee said:
Nope. But AppleCare's £10-or-so cheaper.

Real question - has anyone who's had AppleCare for their iPhone used it? Wondering whether to cancel it from my order.
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Took out Applecare on my 3G back in June 08. July last year the home button stopped working/responding so took it into Apple Liverpool One and 10 mins later, one replacement working phone. The out of warranty repair/replacement would have been £139. Ergo Applecare on my new iPhone 4 will be a no brainer.

Ditto for the 15" MBP I got back in December with my cousins student discount ;)
 
I've looked at the O2 website.

They've updated the iPhone Tariffs but there's no mention of how much an iPhone will be if you took out an 18/24 month contract!

Does anyone know how much?
 
Brenster said:
Took out Applecare on my 3G back in June 08. July last year the home button stopped working/responding so took it into Apple Liverpool One and 10 mins later, one replacement working phone. The out of warranty repair/replacement would have been £139. Ergo Applecare on my new iPhone 4 will be a no brainer.

Ditto for the 15" MBP I got back in December with my cousins student discount ;)
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My iPhone 3Gs was purchased on 19th June. Hopefully nothing will go wrong between then and the 24th when it will be sold. No Applecare for me.
 
0dev said:
It is unlocked, it's just giving you the choice to buy from those networks instead.

If you cut your Virgin SIM it will work fine.
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Sorry, 200+ page thread and on my iPhone right now. Can someone confirm this for me so I'm sure about this? If I just cut my sim down to size it will work? On o2 contract with an iPhone 4 preordered from apple/store. Thanks in advance guys.
 
oh no :(

no white!?

it best be made available during the month o2 will let me buy out my blackberry contract! else i'll be waiting untill december when it runs out :(
 
for those (like myself) waiting on tariff confirmation and pre-order news from Vodafone, there are a few new snippets of info on their official Twitter feed.

http://twitter.com/vodafoneuk

in regards to the leaked tariff info yesterday "@m4rkw They haven't been confirmed I'm afraid so the leak wasn't accurate info. Official news isn't far off though! ;-) ^BH"

they do however seem to be suggesting that pre-ordering is still gonna happen.
 
Thanks for the link, to reserve and collect, genius! Not so obvious to mere mortals trying to order online.

Plus this way we can chose to get a pay and go sim with 12 months free data, you don't get when pre ordering online!

Also O2 said theirs no guarantee's they will be giving micro sims with the bolt-on to thoughts who purchase sim-free! Scary!
 
andybno1 said:
problem with ebay is the applecare would initially be in the seller's name, they sell the stuff for you cancel the applecare claim money back and leave u high and dry....... just one of the stories I have heard
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Not so. I have bought many Applecare warranties on eBay from reputable sellers and never had problem. They are not registered by the sellers. They are registered by you after purchase.
 
Chic0 said:
managed to get my pre order in about 1pm today, but still haven't received confirmation email.

I can log into my account online and view order details, but still no email.

Anyone else experiencing this?
I am assuming my order is definately placed. What do you think?
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Anyone? ^^^^

:)
 
Maybe helpfull for all

Ok this is what i was told of the O2 sales department.

In regards to the insurance you pay now, this can be transferred over to the new iPhone 4 at the same price you pay now (for me it is £7.50 a month) because it is just carrying on with a existing insurance plan and not a new one (think new ones are around £15 a month now)

I don't have to get my mobile direct with O2. I can still get my sim-free unlocked iPhone 4 from Apple, phone them up and tell them and they will then send out me a micro-sim with that will keep my Simplicity plan that i am currently on. I will also still have my phone insured with them as it is the phone that the sim goes into that is insured but would just tell them that i no longer have iPhone 3G and that it is iPhone 4.

Also confirmed and this is what i am going to do:-
Get simplicity plan £20 a month 600mins (£15 if am tight n go for 300mins), Unlimited data, Unlimited txts (before 24th June)
Then get iPhone 4 sim free from Apple (wanted white but may have to settle for the finger print showing but less contrasting screen of the black) for £599 from Apple.
Also will be insured for just £7.50 a month

Hmmm guess my dilema on White n Black may have been decided for me in order to get the best deal.....though when someone says i cant have summat usually makes me want it more lol (also guessing 32gb is best way to go)
 
So I pre orders a 32gb black iPhone and 2 bumpers and realised it pushes
y order date to mid July as the 3 are bundled together so I try n ring too cancel the two bumpers, my order is only partial as my banks blocked the money and holding it till I tell apple blah blah, so angry so I've got 2 wait till tmrw to get it through properly :( PITA
 
NightFox Jun 15, 2010 07:42 AM
But Are They Really Unlocked???

Don't want to start any scaremongering, but I've just had a thought...

AFAIK all iPhones are sold unlocked and always have been - it's just when you insert a network operator's SIM and activate the phone through iTunes that it gets permanently locked to that network.

So it's possible that when Apple say the new phones are being sold unlocked that what they mean is that you have the choice to decide which network you go with - but once you activate it, the phone will become locked.

If you think about it, from a logistics point of view that makes it easy for Apple to deal with sales if they do start offering PAYG phones as they won't have to have stocks of each phone locked to each operator.

So maybe the prices we're seeing ARE the PAYG prices, rather than permanently unlocked prices? I know that everyone's interpreting these prices as being completely unlocked at the moment, but is there anything on the Apple site that would blow my theory out of the water?
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In response to the "Are they really unlocked" debate, i have some experience of this with my 3GS

In January I was given a replacement iPhone 3GS at the apple store because my previous "O2 PAYG iPhone 3GS" was faulty.

I never restored/wipe the phone until a week ago, as I was selling it to a new owner.

At this point I didnt have an O2 iPhone sim card in my iPhone, I had a simplicity 30 day non iphone plan.
Once the iPhone was fully restored, it gave me a message that I had an unauthorised sim which couldnt activate my iPhone!!!!

I then tried other sim cards, and my partners Orange iPhone managed to activate the phone...I then tried my O2 sim again, and tried my friends O2 iphone contract sim and both didnt work....the iPhone was now locked to Orange and Orange only!

I went to the apple store and sat there for an hour while they tried to figure out what was going on. It's lucky i bought my receipts to prove I originally bought the phone locked to O2, as they seemed very suspicious of me :D

They sent me away with my phone promising me that they will give me a call once they had spoken to the networksThat was on Friday, I have heard nothing from them...

Ive come to realise that all new of Apples iPhone's actually come with one time temporary unlocked, until activated with your carrier of choice.

Once activated with that carrier it becomes locked...The refurbished phone they gave me wasnt properly activated to O2, so when I put in the Orange sim it locked to that network.


So to summarize, I HOPE "SIM FREE" DOESNT MEAN IT LOCKS TO THE FIRST NETWORK YOU CHOOSE!!!
 
Gorki247 said:
Can you buy Applecare after you received the phone or do you have to buy it at the same time?
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You get a year Applecare warranty with the new phone. You can buy the additional year's Applecare anytime during your first year of ownership. No need to buy at the time.
 
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