We need information!! With a little bit of luck it might be available to order even before the black one is shipping, i.e before July 14th?
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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread
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We need information!! With a little bit of luck it might be available to order even before the black one is shipping, i.e before July 14th?
Yeah, but in fairness to my local store, I have no way of knowing how it was presented to the people signing up. Maybe it was made clear to them that the till receipt was just a confirmation that they were on a list for a call back. I'm as confused as most people as to what's really going on but, from that comment a couple of pages back (some Orange stores taking unofficial reservations) all the info I'm seeing seems to point to there being no UK-wide official Orange pre-ordering system.littledigger said:
One thing that worries me about the stores taking unofficial pre-orders is - have they been told their launch day stock allocations yet? What if they're making more promises than they can keep?
- Julian
Will the contracts in the Apple Store be the same as the O2 tarrifs? i.e. will I get the iPhone at a reduced rate?
Why is everyone ordering microsims? Doesn't it come with a microsim in the box?
Tariffs should be the new tariffs, that we know about. Will you ge the iPhone at a reduced rate?
I'm ordering a Micro-SIM becuase I CBA to go to an O2 store.
im hoping for it on launch day, hoping o2 will have some, no one has not officially said they will not have it on launch and if they do im at the o2 store well early
and if not, shame on apple and i suppose shame on me but i will wait and not cave and get the black
for anyone interested heres a lil post someone has done about their findings of the official 3 carrier file through iTunes
http://www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/showpost.php?p=449228&postcount=8
http://www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/showpost.php?p=449228&postcount=8
Yeah I agree with you. I think they will begin pre-orders tomorrow and allow a 2 day window for thursday guaranteed.
I really hope they do this as I have no faith in Phones4U especially after whats been said!
Got to get up nice and early tomorrow
Yep I shall be queueing at the Apple store on the 24th, I will probably get there for about 7am and I don't have a pre-order
Okay... so don't hold me to this... but I'm pretty sure that there's a problem with production and there not being enough white iPhones...
You would think that after 3 years Apple would be well prepared for such an event but clearly not. Either they need to pull their finger out or perhaps it's just to create even more hype?? If it's the latter then that's just ridiculous! This isn't the second coming nor is it the return of Elvis or Michael Jackson. And why is Apple mum on the whole issue??
I won't be one of the suckers buying the iPhone 4 straight away (remember what happened to the first lot back in '07?). I've reluctantly decided to wait until my contract is up next March. I'm eligible for an upgrade in September but it would mean being stuck with O2 for another 2 years and I'm not happy with their 3G performance and overall network reliability. Right now my options are limited but next March they'll be wide open - I can choose from Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, 3 and even Virgin may come on board; and I'm sure by then visual voicemail will be available on the other networks. Plus I'm sure by March they'll be talk of the iPhone 4S with 512MB memory and 64GB storage so the old adage rings true: Good things come to those who wait!
So if I follow your "good things" logic... you're saying that the iPhone 4s (or whatever the next one will be) is a good thing. More specifically, getting it early is a good thing... therefore... good things also come to those who buy sim-free this year and next year... better things in fact cuz we also get the iphone 4 now as well
sorry... I know that was sad as hell... i just really wanted to do it
yep and I know in America peeps can't pay apple with cash but I'm not sure here for UK, I would just pay on card just in case
To be fair I can't remember if it was at an apple store or not... but I'm fairly sure i paid for my 3Gs with cash...
EDIT: Is there a way to delete posts? I know it says in the rules that we aren't supposed to make post after post after post... and I'm going through a few pages of the thread that I missed while sleeping... so I have a bunch of reply's to make
and don't wanna make the mods angry .so basically I wanna delete some and I'll make them one post...
no no no... that one will be the 6th iPhone therefore iPhone 6
Just activated my new micro sim with O2, it says it takes up to 4 hours
Anyone else done this yet?
Anyone else done this yet?
I really hope I manage to get one
Guy from orange upgrades said as soon as they have them in stock, if they will be selling them over the phone, he's taken my details etc, and was going to ring me back..
If he doesn't then I'm going to set off to meadowhall at 9 ( nice 1 hour trip) and call in at bradford on the way and hope either orange or carphonewarehouse has a 32gb on orange stock.. Otherwise I'm off to meadowhall where I might not even possibly get one due to possily failing a credit check ( orange have already done one credit check on me this month as have my bank and i'm only 18 )
Going to be a fun day for me lol
Damn you apple
Guy from orange upgrades said as soon as they have them in stock, if they will be selling them over the phone, he's taken my details etc, and was going to ring me back..
If he doesn't then I'm going to set off to meadowhall at 9 ( nice 1 hour trip) and call in at bradford on the way and hope either orange or carphonewarehouse has a 32gb on orange stock.. Otherwise I'm off to meadowhall where I might not even possibly get one due to possily failing a credit check ( orange have already done one credit check on me this month as have my bank and i'm only 18
)Going to be a fun day for me lol
Damn you apple
You can do it whenever you like but I'd have thought that doing it tomorrow will render your regular SIM unusable, so make sure you don't pop the micro-sim out of the 'adaptor' case until you're ready to put it in the iPhone 4!
Damage their reputation? They've said they're not available yet. They've been completely honest about that from their point of view. Some people think that some of the networks will have some, so I suppose they could say which ones do have 'em, but all this melodrama about how Apple are being cruel etc is a bit much!
K, so maybe marketing 101 then... a company that isn't as successful as apple might not be able to do this, but because of how well apple has been able to get customers to "need" the iPhone... they can have lower supply than demand because the "sold out on launch day" headlines will be good press... and people that have to wait longer because they couldn't get one on launch day will want it even more after (anticipation... and something to do with absence and hearts growing fonder and what not... granted that's for people... but it's the same principle...)
Does anyone know when Three are releasing details about iPhone 4?
Dunno why but the 26th rings a bell and something to do with 3 whether thats the day they release tariff info or the day they are releasing the iPhone 4 on there network i can't remember.
Sorry - That probably doesn't help.
26? As in June? That's a Saturday though, would they release details on the weekend?
damn annoying how US customers are prepared for shipment or even shipping already! A lot of us have ordered way way earlier than a lot of their orders. Better be here on 24th or Apple will have a flea in their ear
i'm assuming that our iphones will ship from the UK, as still no change in order status.. there's no way they are coming from China for delivery on Thursday..
Only 4 more sleeps!
3 more sleeps to go
lol!!Very interesting bit of information, thank's for posting that. It's a bit worrying how they lock the IPCC contents though. Does it mean sim free isn't quite as sim free as we think. It sounds like that unless you have the IPCC installed for the carrier then you can't manually add them. So if Apple haven't included the IPCC for my ASDA mobile PAYG sim then I wont be able to use it.
Good news about Three and possible free tethering though. That will beat a lot of the opposition, provided they get their package out in time (cough. Are you listening Three).