The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread

[Spanky Deluxe]

Thanks for the advice. I just called UPS again and they said it would take 30-mins to show up as a no delivery if tracking via internet - so far it still says Out for delivery. This incident happened about 45mins ago now.

I am hoping it was nothing, but we'll have to wait and see. I'm off on holiday tomorrow AM so am screwed.

I wish you luck! Hopefully it'll be ok. I think UPS are far more reliable than TNT and DHL etc and I've heard of UPS drivers going back the same day after a failed delivery attempt before so hopefully you'll be ok.

I'm trying to speak to O2 to get them to sort my insurance out for my new phone, just a case of swapping it over!

Every number I try is engaged, this is crazy!

The 3GS or 3G insurance doesn't cover the 4. You can't just swap it over, you'll have to pay the higher rate for the 4. £15 a month if I remember correctly although I think a lot of people are getting their insurance else where through their banks etc.

 

[SOLLERBOY]

http://swapmysim.o2.co.uk/

Sorry, you have already requested the maximum number of codes for today. Please try again tomorrow.



WHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT

I tried it in the Apple store and by the time I left it hadn't come through. Once I got back to my office it had come through, but it's useless now I'm on a different computer.

Go to do it again and I've hit a limit!

I had the same issue and called o2. Apparently the sim packs were scanned in store and were put into an activation q which wouldn't process until you plug into itunes which is about 5 hours ago for me. Still no sign.

 

[docalex007]

Still waiting on TNT here in Reading.... this wait is incredibly agonizing.

It's already 1pm now... c'mon already!

 

[steveing64]

Anybody heard what the trafford centre is like now

 

[yorkshire]

Ha ha, me too, and so was the bloke behind me in the Vodafone shop!!

I had a friend turn up to O2 in Harrogate at 7.30, he just left as there were far too many people there!
And another friend went to Orange in York, he had one reserved, and he said there was no queue at 8am and he was in and out very quickly. It seems like all the O2 stores are packed.

Hopefully things will have died down a little by the time the white is here.

 

[Deako]

Mine is now activated. No yellow spots as yet.

If i cover the complete bottom of the phone with my hand in a cupping action, i go from 5 bars of O2 signal to 0 bars of signal, doesnt drop out completely, but not good news. If i was in a poorer signal area, then i would definitely lose signal.

Good job i never hold my phone like that, were all Apple testers righty eared? Im a lefty eared person, so always hold the phone in my left hand, so this is worrying. Might have to change phone tactics.

 

[silence87]

Tnt Van Here!!!!!!!!! Exeter!!!

argh - ok, i'll run outside NOW!

 

[Steve Jobs=God]

Anyone in Plymouth received their UPS delivery?

I'm at work and tracking my delivery eveyr 5 minutes, not helpin that my family aren't updating me if its there or not

 

[Stiss]

The 3GS or 3G insurance doesn't cover the 4. You can't just swap it over, you'll have to pay the higher rate for the 4. £15 a month if I remember correctly although I think a lot of people are getting their insurance else where through their banks etc.

I know this. I already pay that amount of money. I am getting it through my bank soon but I just need to swap it over for peace of mind for the time being.

 

[SOLLERBOY]

UPDATE : those waiting for o2 sim activations. My old sim finally died after 5 hours. Only a matter of time now.

 

[mkjj]

My story here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mac-collection/

 

[redgaz26]

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i've got the signal issue.

iPhone 4, t-mob (with cut down sim), 4 bars of signal with the phone on a table with no contact.

if i put my thumb across the left 'notch' and dont touch the metal anywhere else, the signal drops to 'Searching...' within about 30 seconds (though sometimes it seems to only go to 1 bar). I'm not picking the phone up. If I let go, it rises back to 4 bars. Actually, i seem to get the same issue however i hold the phone.

I'm in a really flakey area for signal.

I'm in the middle of Glasgow usually with perfect 3G and I'm sitting watching the bars go up and down!!
On table no probs holding it by bye bye signal.
Not good enough at all!!

 

[gawuffy]

O2 have a stock check site up now - http://stock.o2.co.uk/ -, so you can see which stores have got it in stock.

Additionally, although you can't select the white iPhone4, it does seem to show up if you modify the URL of the results page (do a search and then add &iphone4=ip432w&iphone4=ip416w to the end of the URL, and hit return) - might be useful if anyone wants to refresh that page between now and mid-July

 

[ajnicho]

Would anyone consider gettieng this on vodafone, the data allowance seems better on voda but whats their coverage and speed like?

I just dont know what to do.

 

[twynne]

Arrived here finally - E14 via TNT. Off to play. Good luck all.

 

[twoism]

Just quickly grabbed a photo of the yellow band on my screen, note this is the bottom of the screen:



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I'll definitely let it 'burn in' as some have suggested, but if it doesn't work after a couple days, it's going straight back.

Also getting the signal issue, not quite as drastic, but it does happen. Wrap my hands around the metal areas, and it diminishes. What's up with Apple's quality control??

 

[buckyballs]

Right had a bit of a mere this morning, finsihed work and went over to Fenchurch Street Vodafone store and laughed at the 200+ queue at the 02 store. Queued for over an hour (processing these contracts seem to take some people an age) only to be told there were 3 16GB phones left. So I asked how many 32GB and they said that they did not get any, half the queue just left at that point after I had a bit of a strop and said at least put a sign in the window.

Then went to the Vodafone store in Liverpool St only to be told that if I hadn't preordered they had no walk in stock. That was news to me Vodafone hadn't announced any preordering scheme. So jumped on train back to Ealing, CPW had stock but out of 32GB on Vodafone.

Phones 4U told me to go to the Vodafone shop as they had loads, and now here I sit with my new toy. Although apparently it takes two days to port a number and on Vodafone you can't use the temp number you get with the SIM.

Every o2 store though had a queue, they should have offered out of contract customers first upgrades for two weeks and then let people in contract upgrade. Who wants to queue all day in this heat?

There's an O2 store next to an Orange store on the Strand. At 9am, there must have been almost 200 in the O2 queue and 7 in the Orange queue. Also, I should point out that the O2 store opened at 8am (so had been processing for an hour), and Orange wasn't going to open for another hour.

 

[mouchoir]

If I hold the bottom left of my iphone 4, I loose all signal

Does anyone know of a way of tightening that signal back up?

 

[Mark Morb]

OK, looks like the Sim Swap happened automatically when I bought the phone this morning from O2 as my 3GS is now saying "no service"...I won't be able to setup the iPhone 4 till later tonight so I guess I'm without a useable phone till then...or can I put the microsim (still in the outer plastic) into the 3GS to keep it going?

 

[OzyOly]

Still wont activate. : /

 

[JasonH42]

Still long queues at Milton Keynes Apple Store and a Genius just told me that UK PAYG iPhone 4s sold in-store will be NETWORK LOCKED. He said that they changed their policy in the last 12 hours due to network pressure. Even though I pre-ordered a SIM-free unit I could choose Orange PAYG but it would then be network locked. They have stock of Orange micro-SIMs unlike the Orange stores here.

Here's a guy camping in the queue with his magical pad:

 

[tazzy8907]

Sound your not too far away from me, 20/30mins. Anyway please post when you get yours and so will i. I will PM you too. Ive got my shotgun loaded and if he doesnt have a good excuse for leaving me this late then the bitch is gunna get where the sun don't shine

i just wanna ask you, on behalf of all the other ppl waiting for him to deliver their iPhones, to please wait until he has finished his deliveries so they can get theirs too

 

[SayCheese]

Would anyone consider gettieng this on vodafone, the data allowance seems better on voda but whats their coverage and speed like?

I just dont know what to do.

Was stood in line earlier outside the local Vodafone store. Chatting to the guy next to me and thought we would compare download speeds. Him on Vodafone, me on O2. Both full 3G signals. Using the speedtest app we performed a check. He got 1.2mbps I got 620kbps.

Looks like Vodafone is double the speed (ish).

 

[Abbsta]

Right had a bit of a mere this morning, finsihed work and went over to Fenchurch Street Vodafone store and laughed at the 200+ queue at the 02 store. Queued for over an hour (processing these contracts seem to take some people an age) only to be told there were 3 16GB phones left. So I asked how many 32GB and they said that they did not get any, half the queue just left at that point after I had a bit of a strop and said at least put a sign in the window.

Then went to the Vodafone store in Liverpool St only to be told that if I hadn't preordered they had no walk in stock. That was news to me Vodafone hadn't announced any preordering scheme. So jumped on train back to Ealing, CPW had stock but out of 32GB on Vodafone.

Phones 4U told me to go to the Vodafone shop as they had loads, and now here I sit with my new toy. Although apparently it takes two days to port a number and on Vodafone you can't use the temp number you get with the SIM.

Every o2 store though had a queue, they should have offered out of contract customers first upgrades for two weeks and then let people in contract upgrade. Who wants to queue all day in this heat?

Where is this vodafone branch in Ealing? was it busy?

I was messed around with 2 branches in Central London trying to upgrade so I might head down there if you reckon I stand a good chance.

 

[Hands Sandon]

Walked out of vodaphone, Princes Street, Edinburgh with a 16GB iPhone 4 at 9.30 am. I got there at about 8.30 am with about 15 people ahead of me, so that felt good, because down the street at 02 they already a long line by then with at least a hundred people in line.

The phone looks thinner than I had expected, especially face on. The screen is more than gorgeous, it makes everything much easier to read. It's like the old screen has a fog over it. I compared it to an iPad and whilst the added resolution is obviously very noticeable I hadn't expected the huge difference in contrast that makes the iPhone feel so lifelike, truly amazing!

I have no yellowing issues at all or any other defects at all and I've looked at it in full sun and shade. In full sun I couldn't see anything other than a perfect screen.

They activated the phone in the store but I'm still waiting for vodaphone to fully activate my service, they said it might take 5 or 6 hours. Currently it still says no service.

....must scoot, it'll blow you away when you use it.