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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread
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Does anyone in Belfast need a preorder Sim Free 16GB Black iPhone 4.
I've got one reserved at the victoria square Apple store but i'm gonna chance my arm in the local O2/CPW for a white one on thursday morning. If i can get one then my reserved one is up for grabs.
Going PAYG cos i got the simplicity iphone £25 deal with topcashback on march31st. It's been great, it took them a month to send the sim so i got that month refunded and got a cashback for £200 last week.
900mins unlimited text and net(yes i checked as long as i don't change the tarriff)
A guy on the forums told me they do it every year cos they don't shift a lot of contracts with new iPhone fever. Means u can usually sign up again every march. get ur number ported to the new contract and sell ur old iPhone come June when the cashback is due.
Would be worth remembering for next time
I've got one reserved at the victoria square Apple store but i'm gonna chance my arm in the local O2/CPW for a white one on thursday morning. If i can get one then my reserved one is up for grabs.
Going PAYG cos i got the simplicity iphone £25 deal with topcashback on march31st. It's been great, it took them a month to send the sim so i got that month refunded and got a cashback for £200 last week.
900mins unlimited text and net(yes i checked as long as i don't change the tarriff)
A guy on the forums told me they do it every year cos they don't shift a lot of contracts with new iPhone fever. Means u can usually sign up again every march. get ur number ported to the new contract and sell ur old iPhone come June when the cashback is due.
Would be worth remembering for next time
The idea is to go to the Apple shop. But they only opened one entrance at 7AM last time. That entrance is best identified as opposite ASDA. Let Google Maps be your friend
Nevertheless, it's still far more than users shell out on the competition. Just gets my goat that the Apple brand consistently sustains these high prices for what isn't anything outstanding in terms of separate features, just packaged in a more customer friendly way.
There's always an Android based HTC? Though I think they're about the same price...
Here's a nice cheap phone for you
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-4006.aspx
There's always an Android based HTC? Though I think they're about the same price...
Here's a nice cheap phone for you
I would have loved that when I was younger. Back in 1997 I was working at Woolworths when the very first Vodafone "Pay as you Go" mobile phones came in. £100. I had to have one, so armed with my measly staff discount (I think it was 10%) I picked one up.
Calls were 60p per minute, but I quickly learned to experiment with the "Short Message Service" which was hidden away down a long series of submenus!
Myself and 3/4 friends are also going to VS to get them that morning
Me 2!
Isnt it funny that we could know each other and mabey even say hi (in usernames lol) through an american website
The idea is to go to the Apple shop. But they only opened one entrance at 7AM last time. That entrance is best identified as opposite ASDA. Let Google Maps be your friend
There should be more entrances open in theory. I used to work for a place where the managers had to be in even earlier than that (from what I remember...) to start preparing the stock. We went in through the door next to where John Lewis is now. It was always the flipping car parks that were the problem, which sometimes didn't open until an hour after my shift started. Always handy!
I phoned the place up a few days before last year and was told only the one entrance would be open. Others could have been I suppose , I didn't look
. As I have to drive about 100 mile from the bottom end of Cumbria tried to work it that I would end up there at 7am. I got there around 6:30 and like you say, no access to the car parks. I had a breakfast over the road in MacDonalds which was inside the ASDA. The car park had opened after that. Very eerie though once inside. No shoppers, just this short but lengthening queue outside the Apple shop and the occasional security or cleaner passing by and wondering what the hell was going on.That is an absolutely brilliant phone for a tenner. Not much bigger than a credit card and with a £10 ASDA PAYG sim you can afford to loose it on a night out rather than your nice expensive iPhone.
In all honesty. I'd probably buy something like this for when i'm going somewhere that I feel I may lose or damage my iPhone.
I'm keeping my Sony Ericsson K800i for this sole reason. My brand new iPhone will not be coming with me on nights out or when I go to the beach.
I've posted this before but it got lost quickly in the dross.
I don't understand why people aren't more annoyed about the loss of the texts abroad on o2.
I'm abroad roughly 90 days a year and I send roughly 20 texts a day. On my current simplicity tariff, each text takes 4 from my bundle but essentially costs me nothing. on the new tariffs, even though I'm unlimited in the UK, on average I'll be charged 20p a text (30 in the US + Canada, 11 in Europe but I split my time between them).
That works out at a whopping £360 extra per year if I step up to the new tariffs. Am I missing something here or do you all stay in the UK year round?!
I'm on O2 simplicity for the very same reason (otherwise, i'd probably be on someone else's sim only deal). It's nice to be able to get free texts in Europe and Asia. Though I do swap to a local pay-as-you-go sim card if I'm staying there for over a week.
I'm not more annoyed because I'll either switch or just take scissors to my sim card. Probably the latter. I fully expect our local market guy, who unlocks phones, to get a microsim cutter/puncher this summer.
UK tariffs:
Why doesn't everybody just go on the SIMplicity plan (for something between 15 and 25 pounds per month) and by the iPhone 4 from Apple?
That's what I will do/have done.
I just subscribed to 12 months SIMplicity 15 pounds (300 mins, unlimited txt and internet), bought the 16GB from Apple website, will sell my great condition 3GS on eBay for around 300, so will end up spending 200 pounds on the new phone. Perfect.
Why DOESN'T everybody do that?
Why doesn't everybody just go on the SIMplicity plan (for something between 15 and 25 pounds per month) and by the iPhone 4 from Apple?
That's what I will do/have done.
I just subscribed to 12 months SIMplicity 15 pounds (300 mins, unlimited txt and internet), bought the 16GB from Apple website, will sell my great condition 3GS on eBay for around 300, so will end up spending 200 pounds on the new phone. Perfect.
Why DOESN'T everybody do that?
I think one reason is the initial upfront cost of buying a new phone. That's the reason i'm looking into a contract for the first time, as I want my hands on one of these bad boys but can't actually afford the full £480 right now.
ahhh sod it, thought i could hold out. just placed my order for a 32GB one :/ 5/6th July delivery
tight barstewards dont even give you a wall plug anymore...
tight barstewards dont even give you a wall plug anymore...
ahhh sod it, thought i could hold out. just placed my order for a 32GB one :/ 5/6th July delivery
tight barstewards dont even give you a wall plug anymore...
You cannot be serious about the wall plug? That's ridiculous, first they got rid of the dock which came with the 2G now they get rid of the charger, it's like with the iPad and how they don't give you any headphones yet the thing has a headphone dock, I wouldn't mind so much if it was a budget product but when you're paying £500-£600 for a phone you at least expect a damn charger!
I just hope that I can get one next week from the Apple store, if not I will have to order it online and with the way things are looking, it will be a miracle if a get one before christmas
I remember a few getting calls like that when they ordered the iPad. The banks varied I seem to remember.
I'm busy all day tomorrow - will lack the time to answer calls :/
Right, no wall charger? WTF
I'm going to have to share the wall charger, unless someone ponies up to buy one :/ahhh sod it, thought i could hold out. just placed my order for a 32GB one :/ 5/6th July delivery
tight barstewards dont even give you a wall plug anymore...
Quote from apples website:
In the box
* iPhone 4
* Stereo Headset with mic
* Dock Connector to USB Cable
* USB Power Adapter
* Documentation
USB Power Adapter - This isn't like the 3G Where you had 2 pieces for the power plug, its just a plug with a USB Port, i saw my friends i was LIKE OOHER