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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread
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still no sign of mine... seen every delivery van apart from UPS
Anyone know if I can grab a bumper in CPW or o2 stores today? My reception in the house is crap as it is and I dont fancy wearing a glove until Apple can sort this issue out (if there is actually one)
There are none in any CPW or O2 in Newcastle unfortunately
All those with reception issues at the bottom left, can you post your network? and weather it's on 2G, 3G or both.
Be interesting to see which band is most susceptible to it..
Still waiting for UPS to turn up with mine
o2 - 3G
Isn't that just because they have their corporate version of suresignal inside all Vodafone stores?
TT
Finally finished syncing, and noticed that I have about 3GB less space left than on my 3GS. After a bit of head scratching I reckon this is down to the higher screen resolution - I have a few iTunes films/videos synced to my phone, and I reckon that perhaps iTunes normally down-samples them to the iPhone screen size with syncing, so maybe the video files sizes are larger on the 4G than the 3GS?
I guess the same might be true of the down-sampled pictures that iTunes syncs with iPhones from iPhoto or Aperture.
I guess the same might be true of the down-sampled pictures that iTunes syncs with iPhones from iPhoto or Aperture.
Brent Cross Apple Store release
Got to Brent Cross at 8:01am and thought I'd probably be in a queue
of ten or twelve. I've never queued for the release of any product before
so I didn't know what to expect. What I didn't expect was at the very
minimum one hundred in front of me! By about 8:20 Apple staff were
asking people with reservations to go to another, shorter queue and by
that time people were already being told that there were no unreserved
phones for them this far back in the queue.
I had reserved my phone so I joined the "reserved" queue.
I thought that it should take between half an hour and an hour.
Two and half hours later, I was still about fifteen/twenty people or so back
in my queue. The chap in front of me started talking to me and it
transpired that he had flown in from Germany to get a sim-free
iPhone 4. A major reason as to why he was able to do this was
that he worked for a well-known German airline which gives him
good flight availability at reduced prices. It also turned out that
he had friends outside the Regent Street store doing the same thing.
Apparently he had bought Apple stuff in places as far afield
as Hong Kong, Italy and the States and was due to be flying back
to Germany by 8pm tonight - the last available flight to him from Heathrow.
One thing that we both talked about was, and Apple are not necessarily going
to be keen on this, was the amount of time we had to wait to get into the
store. He explained that the Apple Store he had been into in the US
was quite a bit quicker/more efficient with their service than either the Brent
Cross one or the stores he had visited in Germany.
Finally at between 11:30am and midday (lost track of the time I was
so knackered!) me and the chap in front of me got into the store shortly
after being told by one of the Apple staff that O2's network had crashed
due to the increase in traffic. During our wait, several people had stopped
to ask those of us in the queue what it was all about.
In the end my transaction took less than ten minutes. One iPhone 4, black,
16GB. I added a black bumper to prevent damage and possibly reduce
signal deterioration.
As I left the store, I tapped my fellow patient would-be iPhone 4
customer, wished him luck on his journey back home and shook hands.
Upon exiting, I almost felt the urge to break into song with
"It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, iPhone's coming home"
whilst raising my purchase above my head for added World Cup effect.
Sanity got the better of me when I decided to decamp to John Lewis
for a hot chocolate instead of an embarrassing celebration.
It was past midday when I left John Lewis.
The queues were still long at the Apple Store.
Carphone Warehouse had also opened early and had a steady but smaller
queue. O2 also had a queue but that was longer than CW's.
I now have an unopened iPhone, a bumper and, very sadly, photos and
videos of the queues outside Apple in Brent Cross
Got to Brent Cross at 8:01am and thought I'd probably be in a queue
of ten or twelve. I've never queued for the release of any product before
so I didn't know what to expect. What I didn't expect was at the very
minimum one hundred in front of me! By about 8:20 Apple staff were
asking people with reservations to go to another, shorter queue and by
that time people were already being told that there were no unreserved
phones for them this far back in the queue.
I had reserved my phone so I joined the "reserved" queue.
I thought that it should take between half an hour and an hour.
Two and half hours later, I was still about fifteen/twenty people or so back
in my queue. The chap in front of me started talking to me and it
transpired that he had flown in from Germany to get a sim-free
iPhone 4. A major reason as to why he was able to do this was
that he worked for a well-known German airline which gives him
good flight availability at reduced prices. It also turned out that
he had friends outside the Regent Street store doing the same thing.
Apparently he had bought Apple stuff in places as far afield
as Hong Kong, Italy and the States and was due to be flying back
to Germany by 8pm tonight - the last available flight to him from Heathrow.
One thing that we both talked about was, and Apple are not necessarily going
to be keen on this, was the amount of time we had to wait to get into the
store. He explained that the Apple Store he had been into in the US
was quite a bit quicker/more efficient with their service than either the Brent
Cross one or the stores he had visited in Germany.
Finally at between 11:30am and midday (lost track of the time I was
so knackered!) me and the chap in front of me got into the store shortly
after being told by one of the Apple staff that O2's network had crashed
due to the increase in traffic. During our wait, several people had stopped
to ask those of us in the queue what it was all about.
In the end my transaction took less than ten minutes. One iPhone 4, black,
16GB. I added a black bumper to prevent damage and possibly reduce
signal deterioration.
As I left the store, I tapped my fellow patient would-be iPhone 4
customer, wished him luck on his journey back home and shook hands.
Upon exiting, I almost felt the urge to break into song with
"It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, iPhone's coming home"
whilst raising my purchase above my head for added World Cup effect.
Sanity got the better of me when I decided to decamp to John Lewis
for a hot chocolate instead of an embarrassing celebration.
It was past midday when I left John Lewis.
The queues were still long at the Apple Store.
Carphone Warehouse had also opened early and had a steady but smaller
queue. O2 also had a queue but that was longer than CW's.
I now have an unopened iPhone, a bumper and, very sadly, photos and
videos of the queues outside Apple in Brent Cross
Just been to college got sent home after 14 mins, so I'll be in for my iPhone
This day is going sooooo slow
It was Out for Delivery at 6:02am but they don't start delivering until around 9am, now its 1:53pm Comeee onnn.
This day is going sooooo slow
It was Out for Delivery at 6:02am but they don't start delivering until around 9am, now its 1:53pm Comeee onnn.
Still waiting for TNT ......... it's been 7 hours since it's been out on delivery... what the **** is the driver doing????????????????????
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UPS delivered mine at midday today (Feltham to Slough). Now I have to wait another 48 hrs until it arrives in Dubai :-(
TNT and Orange have both wasted my time today. I really should've just gone about my day as normal instead of putting things on hold. Never again.
And i just know my phones will have the yellow spot and signal issues to top it all off nicely.
Don't think i'm ever gonna do a pre-order again. Gosh! what a nightmare.
And i just know my phones will have the yellow spot and signal issues to top it all off nicely.
Don't think i'm ever gonna do a pre-order again. Gosh! what a nightmare.
Mine too has been out for delivery from the Gloucester depot since 05.15, and im in Gloucester. Still not here
Ah, I see. That would be fine then.
I was due an upgrade anyway, but I did see a guy in the shop having to buy out the last 6 months of his 12 month simplicity contract. Stuff that.
was is a tnt van, or an unmarked one? still waiting, still out for delivery...
sorry mate been messing about with it......and the phone
it was a MASSIVE TNT marked van.....hope u'll get it soon dude.
I also have got an iPhone 4 with a temporary Vodafone SIM which so far still says "No Service" (its been about 3.5 hours).
How do you know that the temporary sims don't work and that it just won't take time?
I hate you and ur desk so much right now
I wish my desk looked like that... I suppose I'll be somewhat closer when I get back to england and get my iphone and ipad tho
Spare iPhone 4 32gb for Victoria Square
Hi guys just wondering if anyone wanted my reservation for a 32gb iphone 4 i reserved in VS in Belfast.
I managed to get mine a bit close to home so it didnt need to travel up to the city
Email me if interested wavazey@aol.com
I will reply off my shiny new iphone 4
Hi guys just wondering if anyone wanted my reservation for a 32gb iphone 4 i reserved in VS in Belfast.
I managed to get mine a bit close to home so it didnt need to travel up to the city
Email me if interested wavazey@aol.com
I will reply off my shiny new iphone 4