"BREAKING NEWS: VAT is to rise from 17.5% to 20% from 4 January next year, the chancellor announces."
You're phone reservations won't be affected then
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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread
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Looks like I JUST beat you to it
"Breaking News: VAT is to rise from 17.5% to 20% from 4 January next year, the chancellor announces."
Because we all check this thread more often than the BBC
Ugh, you bet me to it
Same here -just made my 3rd visit to the store since Saturday, the O2 guy was insisting that O2 "aren't doing Pay & Go iPhone 4's for a couple of months, they have only sent us microsim packs for contract customers". After I admittedly got a little bit rattled by his stupidity/lack of knowledge, he called another store, went back to their stockroom and -lo and behold- had a "Pay & Go replacement micro sim" pack for me
O2 are the worst-organized bunch of idiots I have ever known -I know there are people out there who have had good experiences with them, and I'm happy for you. But i've been a victim of their total incompetence on several occasions.
I'm finding the whole microsim thing to be a bit of a pain. I'm currently in a contract with orange and because it's a normal contract instead of an iphone contract, they won't give me a microsim. I've been to vodafone/three/tmobile to try and get my hands on a microsim (so that i can use it as a template and cut my own) but they don't have any. I've ordered the cutmysim tool but that isn't shipped until the end of june. I can see whats going to happen...my iphone will arrive on Thursday and i'll have no sim to use in it.
just got my micro sim from an o2 store, came with a little adapter (not in the envelope, they gave me it separately) so snapped it out of the holder and put it in the adaptor, just waiting for the sim swap to happen. did it via the online form
Have you tried switching off and back on (with the old SIM in)?
Apple Glasgow
Guys thanks for replys.
Sorry im coming from fife? concert square near buchanan bus station?? as far as google maps tells me.
Anybody going to be in Line on Thursday at Glasgow?? reservation or general sale?
im thinking getting there at 6am for general sale. Means leaving my house at 4.30AM
Guys thanks for replys.
Sorry im coming from fife? concert square near buchanan bus station?? as far as google maps tells me.
Anybody going to be in Line on Thursday at Glasgow?? reservation or general sale?
im thinking getting there at 6am for general sale. Means leaving my house at 4.30AM
So, new VAT kicking in from 4th January.
iPhone 4 16GB: £499 would become £509.62
iPhone 4 32GB: £599 would become £611.74
iPad Wifi 16GB: £429 would become £438.18
iPad Wifi 32GB: £499 would become £509.62
iPad Wifi 64GB: £599 would become £611.74
iPad 3G+Wifi 16GB: £529 would become £540.26
iPad 3G+Wifi 32GB: £599 would become £611.74
iPad 3G+Wifi 64GB: £699 would become £713.87
Macbook at £849 would become £867.06
Macbook Pro at £999 would become £1,020.26
Macbook Air at £1174 would become £1,198.98
iPhone 4 16GB: £499 would become £509.62
iPhone 4 32GB: £599 would become £611.74
iPad Wifi 16GB: £429 would become £438.18
iPad Wifi 32GB: £499 would become £509.62
iPad Wifi 64GB: £599 would become £611.74
iPad 3G+Wifi 16GB: £529 would become £540.26
iPad 3G+Wifi 32GB: £599 would become £611.74
iPad 3G+Wifi 64GB: £699 would become £713.87
Macbook at £849 would become £867.06
Macbook Pro at £999 would become £1,020.26
Macbook Air at £1174 would become £1,198.98
Just been into the Orange store in Maidenhead and they said that Orange have screwed up their order(s). They only expect to have 3 phones on Thursday and it is a first come, first served, whether you are an existing Orange customer or not.
They said to ring back tomorrow to double check.
They said to ring back tomorrow to double check.
GAH
Rung home, nope nothing from O2 in the post for me today.
Off I go to O2 at lunch then for a MicroSIM..... "All gone. We'll be getting some more in on Thursday".
****.
Rung home, nope nothing from O2 in the post for me today.
Off I go to O2 at lunch then for a MicroSIM..... "All gone. We'll be getting some more in on Thursday".
****.
Same here -just made my 3rd visit to the store since Saturday, the O2 guy was insisting that O2 "aren't doing Pay & Go iPhone 4's for a couple of months, they have only sent us microsim packs for contract customers". After I admittedly got a little bit rattled by his stupidity/lack of knowledge, he called another store, went back to their stockroom and -lo and behold- had a "Pay & Go replacement micro sim" pack for me
O2 are the worst-organized bunch of idiots I have ever known -I know there are people out there who have had good experiences with them, and I'm happy for you. But i've been a victim of their total incompetence on several occasions.
Sorry if i am being a bit thick. o2 sent me a micro sim pack, also swapped over etc . I am still under 3gs contract and was intending to buy Iphone 4 Sim free PAYG. will the o2 micro sim work? how can there be a PAYG or Contract Micro Sim?
I live in Middleton St George and near Morton Park there is a really small Carphone Warehouse which is stocking the iPhone 4 on release day and no one at all will be queuing there. Just incase anyone lives near there and wants an iPhone on the day of launch.
Jameson Street, Kingston Upon Hull. Didn't ask, just got it. Wasn't expecting it really because all the posts i've read no one was getting them in store or via mail. They just said "you'll need this if you want to put the micro sim in another phone"... i knew this, ofc, but just said "oh ok, great. thanks."
edit: i assume you're talking about the micro adapter. my micro sim is for pay monthly.
Guys thanks for replys.
Sorry im coming from fife? concert square near buchanan bus station?? as far as google maps tells me.
Anybody going to be in Line on Thursday at Glasgow?? reservation or general sale?
im thinking getting there at 6am for general sale. Means leaving my house at 4.30AM
I guessed you were from Fife with the name Raith. Concert Square car park is the one beside Buchanan Bus Station. I think its open 24hrs.
my phone is being delivered to work (same as last time), have to make sure no one at reception 'loses' it this time, most hilarious.
Apple will surely swallow a lot of the increase, if not all of it (at least on the products already being sold at an exorbitant premium, which is most of them).
The psychological difference between £499 and £510 for a good can be vast.
just got called by o2 for iphone release purchase. i told them i was thinking of vodaphone because of their free data aboad and they said they will call me in 1 hour if i want to think about it.
they will sned me the phone for thursday if i want it.... im stuck cos i was leaning towards the vodaphone plan but im lazy and i dont have to do anything to get a new phone. im confused now.
oh for me its all about the roaming data because it always makes by bill huge as i go abroad for work regularly.
they will sned me the phone for thursday if i want it.... im stuck cos i was leaning towards the vodaphone plan but im lazy and i dont have to do anything to get a new phone. im confused now.
oh for me its all about the roaming data because it always makes by bill huge as i go abroad for work regularly.
its done. mine took about 10 minutes at most. possibly less than that as i wasn't exactly watching and waiting for signal/3g to drop.
Guys thanks for replys.
Sorry im coming from fife? concert square near buchanan bus station?? as far as google maps tells me.
Anybody going to be in Line on Thursday at Glasgow?? reservation or general sale?
im thinking getting there at 6am for general sale. Means leaving my house at 4.30AM
Yes it is right next to the bus station http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=55.865695,-4.252734&spn=0.00165,0.004136&t=h&z=18
I'll be in the reservation queue at the Apple Store.
Gut laugh!
Chances are though you wont get to leave Stranraer once you've bought it!
Just wandered into my local o2 store... told them I had a reservation for the Apple Store on Thursday, and asked for a micro sim.
Went through the procedure at http://swapmysim.o2.co.uk/
The website told me that it would (could) take up to 24 hours.
I literally waited 30 seconds then put my new sim in my temporary phone. (I've left the micro sim in the normal sized sim shaped thing).... and it's instantly working.
Nice job o2!!!
Went through the procedure at http://swapmysim.o2.co.uk/
The website told me that it would (could) take up to 24 hours.
I literally waited 30 seconds then put my new sim in my temporary phone. (I've left the micro sim in the normal sized sim shaped thing).... and it's instantly working.
Nice job o2!!!
There are two different micro sim packs (from O2) for switching from an older sim. Supposedly they are not cross-compatible, so a Pay & Go sim must upgrade to a Pay & Go micro sim, similarly for contract sims.
As for the actual phone itself, if you buy a sim-free handset from Apple then you can use any sim you like