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UK iPhone 4S thread.
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Im in the same boat!! My phone is literally a 20 minute drive away and I'm not allowed to go pick it up
Phone Apple customer service. They have just got UPS to call me direct from my local depot and the package is there. Not out for delivery but were willing to send it out this afternoon.
Looks like it arrived at the local depot after the van had left for local deliveries.
Just to be safe I am going to pick it up so I don't have to stand at my window waiting for the van
Mine is "scanned out" at Northampton at 8:48 . Probably after their vans left the depot. too bad they don't do Saturday deliveries and I can't go there, seems I have to wait until Monday (and Oh, I cant be at home on Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday)
I wish I had queued at the Apple Store here.
Mine is also with UKMail at Northampton, with a delay until the 17th when it was originally down for delivery today. How can it take so long to get from Birmingham to Northampton and miss the vans going out on their deliveries?!
I don't mean to put a negative tone on the launch day, but is anyone finding that Siri isn't all that accurate ?
I don't really have much of an accent, i just sound like a straight english accent (not posh, though). Yet it is getting one or two things wrong a bit, I have to make sure i speak clearly - i can speak fast, thats not the issue, i just have to make sure i pronounce each word correctly.
People, me included, tend to slightly mumble some words. You don't notice it when speaking to yourself or other people, as we are a lot better at understanding. But the phone definitely does.
I don't really have much of an accent, i just sound like a straight english accent (not posh, though). Yet it is getting one or two things wrong a bit, I have to make sure i speak clearly - i can speak fast, thats not the issue, i just have to make sure i pronounce each word correctly.
People, me included, tend to slightly mumble some words. You don't notice it when speaking to yourself or other people, as we are a lot better at understanding. But the phone definitely does.
It won't be perfect out the box! It learns your voice, so give it time. Plus, remember it's just a beta at the moment.
To any fellow Northern Irelander's mine has just arrived by UKmail ordered on launch day!! Im in Magherafelt. Says he has quite a few to deliver. Good luck to everyone!!
Good for you but grrrr at the same time! I am in Antrim and getting mine via UPS. Their CSR has just told me "definitely Monday". Of course I am at home and ready to take delivery today but cannot do this on Monday. I also thought that buying direct from Apple would make things more straightforward.
Still waiting in Birmingham for Yodel delivery. Think the fact I'm only a few miles away from the warehouse has worked against me. Reckon they do the furthest distance deliveries first. Bad times.
Hope you get yours soon!! Good luck
nice one wavazey, enjoy! hopefully mine is in the same van heading to belfast!
People often don't realise how much we rely on our eyes when we listen. When someone's mumbling, we often find it even more difficult to understand them if they turn their head away or put their hand over their mouth. We tend to think that this is because it's made them quieter, but it's actually more because we can't lip read what they're saying any more. A computer than has to rely purely on audio without any additional visual help is already at a disadvantage, no matter how good its speech recognition is.
Ok, hopefully it'll get here in the next 50minutes before I have to leave again. And at least that way I can leave it to sync my music etc before I get back
Just got home and no card or update status minus it went to Tamworth to Preston to Glasgow then out for delivery at 6.14am.
Just got home and no card or update status minus it went to Tamworth to Preston to Glasgow then out for delivery at 6.14am.
Just cut it down to normal size, look for tutorial on youtube. They're the same SIM card the microsim just has less plastic around it.
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Ok, hopefully it'll get here in the next 50minutes before I have to leave again. And at least that way I can leave it to sync my music etc before I get back
Just got home and no card or update status minus it went to Tamworth to Preston to Glasgow then out for delivery at 6.14am.
You're on the same truck as me!
Glasgow, United Kingdom 10/14/2011 6:14 A.M. Out For Delivery
Whereabouts in Glasgow are you?
Just make sure it actually fits though! Sometimes the chip is too big and you need to cut even more plastic off it.
mines in northampton as well does your say security scan out?
few others have said theres say the same any one rang northampton to find out whats going on i can walk to the depot from my office so may just call them at lunch!
To an extent yes, But I'm sat in the office now, and can hear the conversation of people in the next room clearly enough (without looking away from the screen).
Although I can have a face to face conversation with some of the scots here and haven't got a bloody clue what they are on about.
Well, i just drove 60 miles chasing my iPhone 4s around the country...
I called UKMail and they at first said /Out for delivery' but then said, oooh, no it has been delayed and is at our depot in Wellingborough!
So, i just drove there to get told that it has been taken out for delivery and that it wasn't scanned properly and chucked into a crate on the van with a few hundred iPhones!
Apparently the driver is meeting with another driver anytime now to pass over the delayed iPhones for delivery today!