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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread
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A mate of mine is looking for a sim-free 32gig Black and he lives in Chester. Does anyone know what his best chance is to find someone who has them in stock and so he doesn't have to travel too far ?
Thanks
http://stock.o2.co.uk/index.html
Also, call Apple and the various carriers.
Sorry, just realised you wanted sim-free - Apple is your only option at the moment.
Mine arrived yesterday Mrs signed for it.
Cant really use it yet still waiting for Vodafone to sort out the porting but Ill repeat what most have said its quick and the screen is amazing. I think for the 1st time ever I am going to using use my phone camera been impressed with the quality of the images.
Cant really use it yet still waiting for Vodafone to sort out the porting but Ill repeat what most have said its quick and the screen is amazing. I think for the 1st time ever I am going to using use my phone camera been impressed with the quality of the images.
I've hated the way they've done the launch this time round. The principle was right, but the way they pulled it off was totally wrong (especially where I waited and failed at White City).
1. I wanted to reserve and was probably the first on the apple store website to do so.. but when I got there the only option was to buy it outright to be delivered (meanwhile Orange and the like didn't come through on their promises for pre-order but kept us waiting for them to tell us!!).
2. By the time I eventually found the reserve section of apple's site (not on their store), only the 16GB option remained. Knowing that there is no way I was going to get the 16GB, I left it to another fortunate soul who did want that version. However, when I got to White City they said that it didn't matter what people reserved, they could pick up either the 32 or 16GB and choose at the time. Grrrrr!
3. In the queue, 10 pre-orders in for every 1 non-pre-order hardly seems fair - those pre-order guys had their stash secured and could have shown up at any point in time - the non-reserved stock was tiny and finite. Why not just get through the line in a fair order?
4. Having queued up from 6am (Westfield said that they only opened the mall at 6am!), I had about 300 people ahead of me... they ran out of stock of both 16 and 32 about 5 people in front of me. But when I ask about them taking my details and making me preference to pick up one of the reserved iphones that isn't collected, they get all confused and say it's down to Steve Jobs what they do about those reserved phones that aren't collected. I got nada!
I feel like setting Mr T on those fools.
1. I wanted to reserve and was probably the first on the apple store website to do so.. but when I got there the only option was to buy it outright to be delivered (meanwhile Orange and the like didn't come through on their promises for pre-order but kept us waiting for them to tell us!!).
2. By the time I eventually found the reserve section of apple's site (not on their store), only the 16GB option remained. Knowing that there is no way I was going to get the 16GB, I left it to another fortunate soul who did want that version. However, when I got to White City they said that it didn't matter what people reserved, they could pick up either the 32 or 16GB and choose at the time. Grrrrr!
3. In the queue, 10 pre-orders in for every 1 non-pre-order hardly seems fair - those pre-order guys had their stash secured and could have shown up at any point in time - the non-reserved stock was tiny and finite. Why not just get through the line in a fair order?
4. Having queued up from 6am (Westfield said that they only opened the mall at 6am!), I had about 300 people ahead of me... they ran out of stock of both 16 and 32 about 5 people in front of me. But when I ask about them taking my details and making me preference to pick up one of the reserved iphones that isn't collected, they get all confused and say it's down to Steve Jobs what they do about those reserved phones that aren't collected. I got nada!
I feel like setting Mr T on those fools.
I too think the screen and camera are the best things about it, shame I can't use the FaceTime, I don't know anyone who has an iPhone 4. :|
I honestly can't remember anything more which is 'special', it functions pretty much the same, I hate to refer to Microsoft, but the iPhone sort of reminded me of my mum's laptop.. it's a 17" Dell, but it's also got denser pixel count..or whatever, more pixels, same space. And in W7, it changes the font to this sort of 'HD font' which looks just amazing on the screen, and that's what its a bit like with the iPhone! Love it
LONG LIVE BRITAIN!
I honestly can't remember anything more which is 'special', it functions pretty much the same, I hate to refer to Microsoft, but the iPhone sort of reminded me of my mum's laptop.. it's a 17" Dell, but it's also got denser pixel count..or whatever, more pixels, same space. And in W7, it changes the font to this sort of 'HD font' which looks just amazing on the screen, and that's what its a bit like with the iPhone! Love it
Heh that's what I love about being British - we all pulled together when we were trying to pre-order or find info from the networks, but now it's back to normal and we can get back to slagging each other off
As it happens, I just had a look at his eBay listing and there's a good chance he could be severely out of pocket if a buyer with half a brain cell comes along heh heh
LONG LIVE BRITAIN!
I too think the screen and camera are the best things about it, shame I can't use the FaceTime, I don't know anyone who has an iPhone 4. :|
I honestly can't remember anything more which is 'special', it functions pretty much the same, I hate to refer to Microsoft, but the iPhone sort of reminded me of my mum's laptop.. it's a 17" Dell, but it's also got denser pixel count..or whatever, more pixels, same space. And in W7, it changes the font to this sort of 'HD font' which looks just amazing on the screen, and that's what its a bit like with the iPhone! Love it
LONG LIVE BRITAIN!
close the door on your way out......
Does anyone know if the carrier ident on the iPhone display is branded as Tesco or O2-UK when on Tesco Mobile?
Best thing about this thread has been seeing how many different ways people try to spell queue
Does anyone know if the carrier ident on the iPhone display is branded as Tesco or O2-UK when on Tesco Mobile?
Someone posted a few pages back that it says O2-UK on the Tesco iPhones. I believe it states this on their website too. HTH.
Best thing about this thread has been seeing how many different ways people try to spell queue
Probably the highlight of the thread for me too! My spelling & grammar isn't perfect, but some of the things that get posted are amusing (other posts are just not understandable). The best one has to go to the poster who said something like:
"....it's one year until MJ's death..."
Classic!
ring them mate, we dont have access to their stock levels.....
o2 have a stock checker on their website, dont think apple do, so youll have to call. bear in mind they are not very helpful with quantities though
o2 have a stock checker on their website, dont think apple do, so youll have to call. bear in mind they are not very helpful with quantities though
Hmm, the iPhone 4 pay as you go Vodafone page used to say 500MB data for 12 months, but now it just says "to be confirmed". I hope they don't reduce it.
I got through at 9:15 on my second attempt but they said their systems weren't live until 10:00. Been trying since 9:58 without getting through
Getting the same, rung over 70 times this morning but getting the same tone everytime.
Also called all the tesco phone stores in my area as someone advised above, All out of stock, Not sure if it has to have a phone department for them to stock it?
Just trying to get through to tesco mobile now. I'm on O2 but the tesco mobile plans are SO much better aren't they! I know tesco mobile uses o2's network, but does anybody know if it's actually any WORSE than o2 for reception/coverage?
I ask just because i'm wondering whether o2 would get priority over the network seeing as tesco mobile 'borrow' o2's network? If anyone's on tesco mobile, how does it compare to other networks?
On the other hand, would it be a better idea to go with Three? Their plans look a lot more impressive than o2's and I saw a post on this forum saying three were the best for 3G reception and o2 were the worst! Is this true? ...And what would be the downside to going with Three? ...again, anyone on Three, any help would be appreciated!
I ask just because i'm wondering whether o2 would get priority over the network seeing as tesco mobile 'borrow' o2's network? If anyone's on tesco mobile, how does it compare to other networks?
On the other hand, would it be a better idea to go with Three? Their plans look a lot more impressive than o2's and I saw a post on this forum saying three were the best for 3G reception and o2 were the worst! Is this true? ...And what would be the downside to going with Three? ...again, anyone on Three, any help would be appreciated!
Does anyone know if the carrier ident on the iPhone display is branded as Tesco or O2-UK when on Tesco Mobile?
I think its branded as 02 when on Tesco mobile.