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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread

Googlyhead said:
Facing a similar choice; but read somewhere that all the Three data goes through some content filtering servers(-?) for both iPhone and tethered devices. Anyone have any experience? does this cause any problems?
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Hmm...wonder what that means. My current signal with Orange indoors is awful, outside seems fine and 3G coverage seems great.

But Three seem to have the best 3G network, might take a risk and go with them even though I have no experience with them normal phone signal wise.

Would be interesting to see a poll of which users are on which networks and which is more favourable.
 
Got my 16gb this morning, pre-ordered on the 15th. My first iphone! Cut my t-mobile contract sim down (scary) and synched it all up to my macbook.

Dont seem to have any trouble with signal - but I do have a yellow spot/blemish on the bottom right of the screen. For anyone who is unsure, load up a ibook (download a free one) and you would be able to see it against the white page.

Dont know what to do now, will apple replace it in store?
 
luke707 said:
Hmm...wonder what that means. My current signal with Orange indoors is awful, outside seems fine and 3G coverage seems great.

But Three seem to have the best 3G network, might take a risk and go with them even though I have no experience with them normal phone signal wise.

Would be interesting to see a poll of which users are on which networks and which is more favourable.
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I've been with Three for 3 years and I get a pretty rubbish phone signal. It's even cut out when I've been ringing their customer services to complain. :rolleyes:
 
Bryan839 said:
Got my 16gb this morning, pre-ordered on the 15th. My first iphone! Cut my t-mobile contract sim down (scary) and synched it all up to my macbook.

Dont seem to have any trouble with signal - but I do have a yellow spot/blemish on the bottom right of the screen. For anyone who is unsure, load up a ibook (download a free one) and you would be able to see it against the white page.

Dont know what to do now, will apple replace it in store?
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Wait it out: http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-4-discoloration-a-screen-adhesive-issue-will-fix-itself-2491405/

Apparently it's simply that the glass bonding thingy just hasn't "set" properly yet due to the speed that Apple manufactured these. Should correct itself within a few hours/days.
 
Ok my signal issue doesn't seem too bad. Touching the sides definitely drops bars but it never drops more than two bars and never goes down to zero/drop calls

Still no sign of the yellow blotch
 
situation:

wanted to buy a sim-free iphone from apple, so queued since early in the morning, but got told (by an apple employee) a couple of hours into queueing that they will most likely run out of stock by the time my turn came. so, left the queue and bought iphone4 on o2, with early upgrade offer, and started a new contract.

then went back to apple to buy a case (this is about 3 hours later, still a huge queue), and saw they still had lots of iphones in stock. made a fuss how i was told hours earlier the stock will sell out by the time it was my turn, and that's why i left the queue and bought the phone from o2 on contract (which isn't really what i wanted to do), and asked if i could have a sim-free phone from them, given the situation, and they agreed!

so, now have two phones, a sim-free one and one on new contract with o2.

haven't opened either yet, as can't decide what to do.

options:


  1. return contract phone for refund, and use sim free phone with the remainder of my contract - this is what i originally intended to do - but looks like it's complicated now, as the shop said they can refund me on the phone, but can't refund the money i paid for early upgrade, they're saying i need to arrange this with customer services, to have that credited to my account - messy
  2. use the contract phone and sell the sim-free one - the simplest option, and likely to make me a profit, but end up with the locked phone
  3. ideal option, but not sure if this is possible - use new o2 contract sim in the apple (unlocked) phone, thus having a new contract AND an unlocked phone, and sell the contract phone (which is currently also unlocked, and remains so, until the contract sim is put into it and it's connected to itunes, at which point it would lock - had this confirmed to me by o2 CS). but not sure if apple iphone would remain unlocked if i put the o2 contract sim in it, and also, if the contract phone i'd sell as unlocked wouldn't lock when whoever buys it puts the sim in it.

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:


if ANYONE has read this far AND understands all of it, AND can offer some sensible and constructive advice, i'd be VERY grateful.
 
I had a pretty long conversation with my UPS driver. He was like I have never seen so many of these boxes, I haven't delivered anything else!

I asked about the split between TNT and UPS, and he said that during the iPad launch UPS didn't do so well in getting them out in time so they split it with TNT and whoever does the best with the iPhone deliveries wins the contract with Apple...

Makes sense, although makes even better sense to split over 2 carriers due to the amount of volume in cases such as these!
 
Any bumpers at the Cardiff shop? Tempted to get one... but not sure I can justify £25 on one...
Nearly home time! Fingers crossed no issues with the phone... wonder what the percentage is of people with the signal issue, bearing in mind people with the problem are more likely to come on forums to discuss it.
 
Mines just arrived, haven't activated it yet, however one thing that I spotted was that it was in the box fully packaged, however it was completely turned on :confused:
 
Just on the phone to O2 to sort insurance transfer out.

She told me at 8AM this morning when they opened the call centre they had 800 customers waiting to speak to a customer services rep.
 
londonian said:
situation:

wanted to buy a sim-free iphone from apple, so queued since early in the morning, but got told (by an apple employee) a couple of hours into queueing that they will most likely run out of stock by the time my turn came. so, left the queue and bought iphone4 on o2, with early upgrade offer, and started a new contract.

then went back to apple to buy a case (this is about 3 hours later, still a huge queue), and saw they still had lots of iphones in stock. made a fuss how i was told hours earlier the stock will sell out by the time it was my turn, and that's why i left the queue and bought the phone from o2 on contract (which isn't really what i wanted to do), and asked if i could have a sim-free phone from them, given the situation, and they agreed!

so, now have two phones, a sim-free one and one on new contract with o2.

haven't opened either yet, as can't decide what to do.

options:


  1. return contract phone for refund, and use sim free phone with the remainder of my contract - this is what i originally intended to do - but looks like it's complicated now, as the shop said they can refund me on the phone, but can't refund the money i paid for early upgrade, they're saying i need to arrange this with customer services, to have that credited to my account - messy
  2. use the contract phone and sell the sim-free one - the simplest option, and likely to make me a profit, but end up with the locked phone
  3. ideal option, but not sure if this is possible - use new o2 contract sim in the apple (unlocked) phone, thus having a new contract AND an unlocked phone, and sell the contract phone (which is currently also unlocked, and remains so, until the contract sim is put into it and it's connected to itunes, at which point it would lock - had this confirmed to me by o2 CS). but not sure if apple iphone would remain unlocked if i put the o2 contract sim in it, and also, if the contract phone i'd sell as unlocked wouldn't lock when whoever buys it puts the sim in it.

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:


if ANYONE has read this far AND understands all of it, AND can offer some sensible and constructive advice, i'd be VERY grateful.
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Dude, if you're in London sell me the sim-free one. I'll gladly take it off your hands and resolve your dilema :)

Serious...

If interested PM me
 
I don't see why everyone is so bothered about the reception problems.

Even if it doesn't work as a phone, you got yourself a frickin' awesome iPod touch!
 
londonian said:
situation:

wanted to buy a sim-free iphone from apple, so queued since early in the morning, but got told (by an apple employee) a couple of hours into queueing that they will most likely run out of stock by the time my turn came. so, left the queue and bought iphone4 on o2, with early upgrade offer, and started a new contract.

then went back to apple to buy a case (this is about 3 hours later, still a huge queue), and saw they still had lots of iphones in stock. made a fuss how i was told hours earlier the stock will sell out by the time it was my turn, and that's why i left the queue and bought the phone from o2 on contract (which isn't really what i wanted to do), and asked if i could have a sim-free phone from them, given the situation, and they agreed!

so, now have two phones, a sim-free one and one on new contract with o2.

haven't opened either yet, as can't decide what to do.

options:


  1. return contract phone for refund, and use sim free phone with the remainder of my contract - this is what i originally intended to do - but looks like it's complicated now, as the shop said they can refund me on the phone, but can't refund the money i paid for early upgrade, they're saying i need to arrange this with customer services, to have that credited to my account - messy
  2. use the contract phone and sell the sim-free one - the simplest option, and likely to make me a profit, but end up with the locked phone
  3. ideal option, but not sure if this is possible - use new o2 contract sim in the apple (unlocked) phone, thus having a new contract AND an unlocked phone, and sell the contract phone (which is currently also unlocked, and remains so, until the contract sim is put into it and it's connected to itunes, at which point it would lock - had this confirmed to me by o2 CS). but not sure if apple iphone would remain unlocked if i put the o2 contract sim in it, and also, if the contract phone i'd sell as unlocked wouldn't lock when whoever buys it puts the sim in it.

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:


if ANYONE has read this far AND understands all of it, AND can offer some sensible and constructive advice, i'd be VERY grateful.
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Well you can't cancel your contract since there are no returns on upgrade iPhones. Check O2's terms and conditions of the early upgrade offer. Also, O2 will offer to unlock your phone after 9 months I think. My 3GS is certainly unlocked now so you have no need to worry there (especially since you're signed in to 18 months extra now).

My advice is to keep the O2 phone, get it unlocked when you can if you want and sell the other one on or return it. I'm surprised Apple let you queue jump when you got back there anyway so you definitely got lucky.
 
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