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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread

Started queuing at 2:20am and by 9:00 I still wasn't in the apple store, despite being 4th in the unreserved queue all morning.
At this point the staff had reaalised that the balance of 10 reserved for 1 Unreserved was unfair to those who had been there all night queuing, so they started to let us in two at a time.

No vodafone sims so when it was finally my turn, was asked if I could wait 15 more minutes. Got a free dock or bumper for the hassle. Chose the dock. In. At 9:15 out for 9:25.
Two iPhones one on vodafone contract which is getting like 1 bar of signal. One sim free.

Damn three announcing their amazing tariffs.
 
doyle369 said:
brand new contract mate
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Bugger. :( Maybe it takes a while for the SIM to be activated. I remember having that years ago when I first took out a contract (been upgrades ever since). It took a few hours back then but that wasn't on a day like today when there will be a lot more customers. Good luck!
 
when I turn my iphone on I get the message, waiting for activation, this may take some time

could that be the reason for me having no signal?
 
I decided to head into Kingston at about half 10. The queues for O2 and Apple were unreal, so I tried both Phones4U stores - One told me they'd sold out, the other said they had one more handset. I went through the whole upgrade process, giving details etc and then was told they'd made a mistake, they didn't have any :mad:

Tried every phone shop in Kingston, tried my luck again at Orange who'd already previously told me they'd just sold the last one and managed to pick one up that someone had pre-ordered and then decided they didn't want.

I then called O2 to cancel and they told me that as I was on a Simplicity tariff I could have had one delivered today had I called up :mad: They never told me this when I enquired the other day, otherwise I'd have done it and saved myself two hours. I was more than happy to stay with O2 but I was told I could only upgrade in the shop, so it's their fault I've gone elsewhere. Just waiting for my PAC code to come through now.
 
g33 said:
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.
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Ring your local vodafone is your best bet!
 
Glad to say that my iPhone 4 is now fully working on O2, after taking a mere two hours to move my number from my 3GS to the 4. So, anybody worried about the 24 hours that O2 were quoting, don't stress it!

I picked my 16GB up from O2 Oxford this morning, getting there at 06:15. Total failure of communication by the store however in regards to queuing arrangements. I had popped in on Monday, and was told to queue at the main entrance to the shopping centre, so that's where I went.

07:20 rolls round, queue of about 15 behind me, and we're told the queue is actually already inside, accessed via the back entrance! Thanks O2...

All that said however, it was only time. There were 50+ people in the queue, and they had stock for everybody. Time actually in store doing the dirty, so to speak, was less than ten minutes.


Oh, I do have the signal drop issue too :(
 
ayzee said:
Even though I bought sim free, it still took about 15mins to serve me, and they seemed very slow & relaxed considering there were 200 odd people waiting to be served! Not good IMO
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Same experience here at the Bullring. Queue was stupid and there didn't seem to be any kind of urgency. There seemed fewer staff doing anything productive than there was at the iPad launch.

All they needed to do was let me in, give me the phone and let me pay for it. Instead they sat me down, tried to sell me Mobile Me even though I already have it and then had me open the box and activate. I was in there as long as another guy that was taking out a contract.

Cant help but wonder if it was a ploy. Maybe marketing or maybe so it didn't look like they'd sold out of all phones by midday!

One of the guys in store said that all the iPhone stock they had was out on display behind the Genius Bar. Most of them appeared to be reserved.

When I walked past the big O2 Store on New Street at about 12pm there was still a pretty big queue outside there too. Around 30 people maybe.
 
Just 16,000

Just got off the phone to Orange Business to upgrade. Says the UK had only 16,000 units in total. His operations manager recommended if I register our interest on the website we'll probably get them before the call centre staff know - but of course being Orange you can't do this any more! No indication of when more will be available, as expected.
 
Just cancelled my Reservation for a iPhone 4 at Regent's Street as well. I wouldn't have bothered to wait in that 1,000 people line. Instead I will pop in tomorrow and get some dock connectors :cool:
 
peskaa said:
Glad to say that my iPhone 4 is now fully working on O2, after taking a mere two hours to move my number from my 3GS to the 4. So, anybody worried about the 24 hours that O2 were quoting, don't stress it!
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Well it's been 3 hours for me and it's still not activated. Nor my friend's from the same store. :(
 
Glen Quagmire said:
Mine's been delivered! Shame it's at home and I'm at work.

Oh, and a week later, I'm still waiting for my micro-SIM from Orange. I rang up, spoke to a rather rude customer service person and got nowhere. Do the Orange bricks 'n' mortar shops have any micro-SIMs?
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And having spoken to the Orange shop (0800 number) I am told that PAYG people aren't entitled to a micro-SIM. I was offered a £30 per month contract (that I could cancel after a month and switch back if I wanted), but was fairly non committal.

I have sent a complaint to the CEO of Orange and am considering jumping ship.

Orange are hopeless and their customer service is a disgrace.
 
Anyone wanting to go on Three:

I had a carrier settings update as soon as I connected to iTunes - all updated and there appears to be no extra charge for tethering!
 
got my phone here, i dont have any signal issues, no yellow blobbing. but also no iphone, so that would be why.

sold out in store. :mad:
 
onemacmini said:
Ring your local vodafone is your best bet!
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thanks again. managed to get through to the right department in the end :rolleyes: they said call on try a store on the 28th they might have some avilable then.



just cancelled my pre order reservation at Regent Street so hopefully somebody will not have wasted a day queuing.
 
I arrived at the Apple Store in Kingston at about 7.30 to discover they had opened at 7am and people were already in. Took a while before the queues were low enough for us to even be let into the store!

After almost three hours of queuing, I got to the front (smugly being led passed the unreserved people, as there was only one queue), only to find they have NO Vodafone SIMs due to a cockup by Vodafone! So I had to wait almost another hour, at the front of the queue, before the SIMs arrived and I could get my hands on that beauty!

Of course, since I'm transferring my number from O2 to Vodafone, I won't be able to use this fantastic device outside of a WiFi hotspot until Monday when the number transfers. Still, only four days, including a weekend, to transfer the number from O2 to Vodafone is quicker than the five weekdays it took to transfer my number from O2 to O2 when I bought the first iPhone!

No sign of any screen issues, and obviously I can't check reception issues until the SIM comes to life.

But the SCREEN. My god, the SCREEN! No amount of images or testimonials will quite prepare you for the sharpness of it. The whole device is phenomenal, it makes the 3G seem pretty tacky in comparison!

This is the queue just before I got to the front:

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(don't worry, the bottom row is the queue for the O2 store... no idea how many of them actually got a phone but the queue didn't seem to be moving too fast!)
 
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