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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread
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how long will it take Voda to switch over to a micro sim?
Voda customer Service is SH#T. wish i stuck with o2 now, thought they would have improved over the years since i last left them.....but obviously not.
Voda customer Service is SH#T. wish i stuck with o2 now, thought they would have improved over the years since i last left them.....but obviously not.
Yes, whilst in the Apple Store. Then half an hour later (their credit card thingy didn't want to play ball) I left the store so thus closed the browser window on that computer. Once back in my office three of these codes came through..... well what use is that to me!http://swapmysim.o2.co.uk said:
I queued for nearly 3 hours at the O2 store in the Merry Hill Centre for my 16GB.
Just wasted my lunch break trying to swop the sim over on the O2 web site like they told me to only to find out from Customer Services that it had already been done for me in the store.
Just wasted my lunch break trying to swop the sim over on the O2 web site like they told me to only to find out from Customer Services that it had already been done for me in the store.
Yippee! My 32GB has just arrived and signed by my relative... erm, but I'm 5930 miles away from it and won't be able to touch it until Saturday! Urgh!
Same story here, sounds like ours are on the same truck. Where abouts in south wales are you?
It's a real shame that Three took so long to show their tariffs as the deal appears to be the best available. However, it is one day too late.
I've jumped ship from O2 to Vodafone purely on the strength of their Tariff and the ability to pre-book a phone (which I picked up at 9:00 this morning).
A day earlier and I would have probably / deffo signed up with three.
Cards too close to the chest for to long.
Ho hum, have to wait 'til Monday for my number to port now...
I've jumped ship from O2 to Vodafone purely on the strength of their Tariff and the ability to pre-book a phone (which I picked up at 9:00 this morning).
A day earlier and I would have probably / deffo signed up with three.
Cards too close to the chest for to long.
Ho hum, have to wait 'til Monday for my number to port now...
wow.. that's my lunchtime short story done with today
congrats and hope you get home soon to play
and also post pics/vid of your queuing you said you had
congrats and hope you get home soon to play
and also post pics/vid of your queuing you said you had
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
sorry mate been messing about with it......and the phone
it was a MASSIVE TNT marked van.....hope u'll get it soon dude.
lol, yeah, can totally understand that
ok, so i just hope you don't live as close as i thought at first, and that the tnt man simply has to deliver a lot between you and me - still, hurry up man! massive tnt van, should at least be able to spot it while smoking outside They said that mine will transferr over on the 28th. Next monday as i used a pac code to swap from O2.
YOull need to go to this site when your pac code has transferred to register your micro sim
http://help.vodafone.co.uk/system/web/custom/iphone4.jsp
i got the following response when i emailed them
"Thank you for sending your new micro SIM details.
Your number is due for activation on the 28th June, please fill up the on line form with the details after the activation in order for us to be able to register your SIM card."
Are you upgrading on O2? It may just be that your microsim hasn't tranferred over yet - reportedly it's taking most people several hours to do so.
i went thru all the trouble in getting an o2 micro sim and have just signed for a Voda contract with no micro sim - seems to be a real pain in the ring trying to get hold of one let alone swtching it over
iPhone 4 - quick thoughts on it are fantastic in comparison to my 3G. Quick, screen is brilliant and just overall a much better phone.
Manchester Arndale - not so good. I understand these things take time, but from being let in at 6.50, and to not getting out of there until gone 10.30, I think is pretty poor, especially when they started letting out "non-reserved," line through at 8AM. I was only 20 or so people down the line too!
I might be in a bad mood through lack of sleep (31 hrs and counting so far!), arriving in Manchester at 3AM to find about 5 people waiting there, when I'd read, and been told, that there was likely going to be a lot more!
Manchester Arndale - not so good. I understand these things take time, but from being let in at 6.50, and to not getting out of there until gone 10.30, I think is pretty poor, especially when they started letting out "non-reserved," line through at 8AM. I was only 20 or so people down the line too!
I might be in a bad mood through lack of sleep (31 hrs and counting so far!), arriving in Manchester at 3AM to find about 5 people waiting there, when I'd read, and been told, that there was likely going to be a lot more!
lol, yeah, can totally understand that
when he looked at his route, it looked like he turned the page before he saw another exeter route....thats what weirded me out......dont really understand that, i would have thought they would go the nearest one next.....but maybe they dont? just a random order??
I transfered my sim from last night only to find out o2 had sent me a pay monthly SIM WTF. I went into o2 with my apple preorder confirmation so why would the **** there think i wanted a pay monthly. Of course i didnt know but he should. Now i risk having an iPhone without a working sim or get the sim now and risk a delayed iPhone. I swear this *********** procedure in whole was a disaster from servers shutting down on pre-order, apple using micro-**** and chaos in getting carriers to get there act together. Now dont get me started with UPS aweful delivery time....still waiting!!!
thanks for that, however i just bought a sim only tariff from Voda today and its been dispatched aleady. it wont come with a micro sim tho from what i understand. how do i get one? i have no dates given as to when my number will switch onto it tho.
Well - 4 and a half hours in the 'reserved' queue at Apple Meadowhall and I'm up and running.
Was a good experience and met a few new friends so not all that bad!
Was a good experience and met a few new friends so not all that bad!