Haven't done a pre-order for the iPhone? Is she having a laugh. Maybe pre-order means something else to them :s
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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread
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Haven't done a pre-order for the iPhone? Is she having a laugh. Maybe pre-order means something else to them :s
They did for 3G but not 3GS. Its been proven many times that the call centre staff are making stuff up saying its not out until July, or pre-orders from 24th June for later in the year.
Precisely why I rarely call them. I'm never sure that I can rely on a word that they say.
people seem to be jumping the gun a bit too early without thinking it through.
As my contract officially isnt up for renewal until september 2011, i am just going to get the phone on PAYG and keep my current contract, therefore when the next iphone comes out next year, i will be eligible for an official upgrade without this willy nilly buying out your contract stuff.
sell your 3GS's and just get a PAYG iPhone 4.
As my contract officially isnt up for renewal until september 2011, i am just going to get the phone on PAYG and keep my current contract, therefore when the next iphone comes out next year, i will be eligible for an official upgrade without this willy nilly buying out your contract stuff.
sell your 3GS's and just get a PAYG iPhone 4.
that's what I mentioned earlier...
my plan is to.....
- sell my current 3GS 32G on ebay
- buy an iphone4 32G on PAYG
- cut my current sim to make it micro sim (http://www.cutmysim.com/) or request one from O2
- wait until the end of my contract then switch to simplicity (http://shop.o2.co.uk/tariffs/simplicity/iphone/1_month? or http://shop.o2.co.uk/tariffs/simplic...one/12_months?)
If you go https://iphonelatest.o2.co.uk/ and register your interest and give them your phone number and address, they say they'll send a microsim.
Can I check something?
Order PAYG iPhone from O2 - locked to O2?
Order PAYG iPhone from Apple - unlocked?
Order PAYG iPhone from O2 - locked to O2?
Order PAYG iPhone from Apple - unlocked?
Second is incorrect. It is locked to whichever carrier you chose to purchase on. The carrier can unlick it for you.
Unlicked is the very least I expect!
Thanks.
whoops. By the way, Vodafone don't offer iPhone on PAYG. With Orange, you need to have been with them for at least 3 months and it still costs, and finally O2, it costs at least £15.
Do you think Apple will still lock the phones when there are now 4 carriers? Seems a bit OTT to me. Never understood how they could do it in the first place anyway if the carrier isn't contributing anything in this case. If we pay full price shouldn't we able to decide where to use our phones?
I think I need <contract> and <payg> tags so that we are all on the same line.
you're not buying the phone from apple, your buying the phone on o2 (or another carrier) payasyougo from an apple store, there is a big difference. apple dont sell a iphone on its own with no carrier joined on.
in principle it's the same as buying a payandgo phone from argos instead of the vodafone shop.
what people dont seem to get is that you can buy it on o2 and then just pay £15 to unlock it that then makes it a factory unlocked device, and you can be pretty sure that doing it that way will be at maximum the same as buying a true factory unlocked phone direct!
am i missing something?
The early upgrade calculator on the o2 website says it will cost me £220 to upgrade early. The o2 recycle website says they will pay £240 for my 3GS 16gb. They pay me £20 to give me a new iphone if I agree to extend my contract by a year? THAT'S AWESOME.
Also, this nonsense of buying a payg iphone so that your not locked into a contract by the time the next iphone comes out.. who cares? this offer will most likely be given again next time, no? And even if you buy a payg iphone now, what about when the iphone 6 comes out? your back in the same boat. I think i'd rather be locked into contract but recieve a free new phone each year, then shell out the difference of an old iphone and a new payg iphone every 2 years.
The early upgrade calculator on the o2 website says it will cost me £220 to upgrade early. The o2 recycle website says they will pay £240 for my 3GS 16gb. They pay me £20 to give me a new iphone if I agree to extend my contract by a year? THAT'S AWESOME.
Also, this nonsense of buying a payg iphone so that your not locked into a contract by the time the next iphone comes out.. who cares? this offer will most likely be given again next time, no? And even if you buy a payg iphone now, what about when the iphone 6 comes out? your back in the same boat. I think i'd rather be locked into contract but recieve a free new phone each year, then shell out the difference of an old iphone and a new payg iphone every 2 years.
Righty, ive got a few questions that some people may be able to help me with.
Right now i'm using a Sony Ericsson K800i that i'd have for around 4 years. I'm using the Text & Web Tariff (Pay&Go) which I find very good value for money as I can browse the web (upto 500MB) and have 300 texts a month which i'm absolutely fine with. This only costs me £10 (Top Up) and I get to keep that £10 I put on my phone and use that for calls. I don't even have to top up every month, which is what I like about Pay&Go.
Now, say I buy the new iPhone (Pay&Go) on launch day do I have to use the Sim Card that is provided with the phone or can I cut my current Sim Card down to size and just slot that in the Micro-Sim slot and benefit from the same Tariff that I have for a while now? Or do I have to unlock the phone first?
Right now i'm using a Sony Ericsson K800i that i'd have for around 4 years. I'm using the Text & Web Tariff (Pay&Go) which I find very good value for money as I can browse the web (upto 500MB) and have 300 texts a month which i'm absolutely fine with. This only costs me £10 (Top Up) and I get to keep that £10 I put on my phone and use that for calls. I don't even have to top up every month, which is what I like about Pay&Go.
Now, say I buy the new iPhone (Pay&Go) on launch day do I have to use the Sim Card that is provided with the phone or can I cut my current Sim Card down to size and just slot that in the Micro-Sim slot and benefit from the same Tariff that I have for a while now? Or do I have to unlock the phone first?
I was told that Apple do the unlocking for O2 or whoever and that they charge the £15 for the unlocking which O2, in this case, pass on to the customer. All iPhones are on a database with Apple hence the activation thing with iTunes. I don't think they do anything to the phone, they just enable it on their database as unlocked and the next time the iPhone logs in it's effectively unlocked.
I don't know why they can't sell them unlocked unless it's some common agreement with the carriers.
I don't know why they can't sell them unlocked unless it's some common agreement with the carriers.