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UK iPhone 4S thread.

sedgeman said:
Can someone help me please?


What is the best Sim Only deal for the Iphone?

I.e. Mins, Texts, Data?

Will be buying the IP4s this weekend and want to get the best Sim Only deal i can


Thanks
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read the first 10 odd pages, ppl going over it in detail.
I'd recommend three for data allowance!
 
Just pre-ordered a white 64GB one from Vodafone in Lakeside.

24 month contract, £219 for the phone and only £41 a month. Sounds perfect to me, then just before the iPhone 5 is announced I'm going to sell it and put a little bit more money towards the 5 direct from Apple. Good plan I think 🙂
 
xBoBsTeRx said:
Just pre-ordered a white 64GB one from Vodafone in Lakeside.

24 month contract, £219 for the phone and only £41 a month. Sounds perfect to me, then just before the iPhone 5 is announced I'm going to sell it and put a little bit more money towards the 5 direct from Apple. Good plan I think 🙂
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except that vodafone don't sim unlock a contract iphone until the contract finishes

I guess that just effects your resale value

BTW I have always found that sim-free phone + sim-only contract is cheaper or the same price as a subsidised phone.
With loads of more advantages, e.g.;
1. higher resale value of phone
2. can change phone mid-contract via ebay or equivalent
3. can use foreign sims when abroad

etc.
 
Hey guys..

i ordered a 32GB white early on the 7th and have a ships by 14th oct status like the rest of you early birds

now my issue is im going away on the 15th for 1 week so i just rang apple customer service to find out if i can expect it on launch day and the answer was NO, we are shipping from the uk on the 14th and unless u selected Saturday delivery (which i didnt see) you can expect it to arrive on mon/tues..

so apple uk orders wont be shipped until FRI so you wont get it on launch day!

the guy i spoke to has arranged a hold at the depo for delivery on mon 24 for me when im back... something to look forward to coming home to i suppose..
 
mohaa2 said:
Before Saturday just gone anybody could fast track upgrade by paying the rest of their contract in one go less 20% less VAT. Even my mum who is on a £10 p/m contract could do it.

Since the IP4S tariff announcements they removed the fast track options for anybody who pays under £40 p/m.

But paying my contract off for the next 6 months works out cheaper anyway.
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Ahh, ok... my contract is > £40, which explains why I didn't know about the block
 
Ok ... Being as we all have nothing better to do than check our order status every 2 (or less!!) minutes I don't think it's too much to ask people who want to know the 'best network' to check the websites!! We live in a tech age people orange, three, O2 and the others all have websites with plenty of details!!

*semi-rant over*
 
Loopy65 said:
Ok ... Being as we all have nothing better to do than check our order status every 2 (or less!!) minutes I don't think it's too much to ask people who want to know the 'best network' to check the websites!! We live in a tech age people orange, three, O2 and the others all have websites with plenty of details!!

*semi-rant over*
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I thought it was every 20 seconds 😀

What'll be really funny would be if someone hits the "cancel" button by mistake LOL 😀
 
kingy04 said:
Hey guys..

i ordered a 32GB white early on the 7th and have a ships by 14th oct status like the rest of you early birds

now my issue is im going away on the 15th for 1 week so i just rang apple customer service to find out if i can expect it on launch day and the answer was NO, we are shipping from the uk on the 14th and unless u selected Saturday delivery (which i didnt see) you can expect it to arrive on mon/tues..

so apple uk orders wont be shipped until FRI so you wont get it on launch day!

the guy i spoke to has arranged a hold at the depo for delivery on mon 24 for me when im back... something to look forward to coming home to i suppose..
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The good news is that the Apple employee probably has nothing to do with this order process, but either way its a little worrying.

A but like the iPad 2 pre-orders which were delivered later than release date, this feels a bit rubbish. If I don't get it on Friday I will be really annoyed.
 
Have spent a week working out how to get iPhone 4s for best price:

Have just arranged to send off iPhone4 16gb to o2 recycle for £266, have ordered new iPhone 4s 16gb from apple for £499.

Therefore, new iPhone 4s for £233 right?! Best option for me due to being on 24month contract and unable to fast track due to o2's unbelievable £40 tariff rule.

This also means once the iPhone5 is released i'm ready to upgrade.

Now I'm happy.
 
kingy04 said:
Hey guys..

i ordered a 32GB white early on the 7th and have a ships by 14th oct status like the rest of you early birds

now my issue is im going away on the 15th for 1 week so i just rang apple customer service to find out if i can expect it on launch day and the answer was NO, we are shipping from the uk on the 14th and unless u selected Saturday delivery (which i didnt see) you can expect it to arrive on mon/tues..

so apple uk orders wont be shipped until FRI so you wont get it on launch day!

the guy i spoke to has arranged a hold at the depo for delivery on mon 24 for me when im back... something to look forward to coming home to i suppose..
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I signed up just to reply to this:
I'm in the same boat that I leave to go abroad on the 15th. However, my departure is for several months and it could be an issue to get these sent to me from whoever is there to sign my collection. and I really don't want to queue outside an Apple store for hours. Nor do they sell the 4S yet where I'm going.
So I called Apple on their 0800 number and got forwarded to somewhere in America. She checked my order and said it will LEAVE Apple on or before the 14th and to expect delivery either on Friday or Monday/Tuesday the week after. She seemed to have more emphasis on it being dispatched on the day and being received on the same day. I think that seems to match up with the iPhone 4 forum posts a few pages ago about delivery confirmation emails arriving late.

I enquired about Saturday delivery and she seemed perplexed and checked it against UPS/TNT UK (via phone) but their offices are closed and she didn't have a saturday delivery option on her system for my order.
 
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ray-lee said:
I signed up just to reply to this:
I'm in the same boat that I leave to go abroad on the 15th. However, my departure is for several months and it could be an issue to get these sent to me from whoever is there to sign my collection. and I really don't want to queue outside an Apple store for hours.
So I called Apple on their 0800 number and got forwarded to somewhere in America. She checked my order and said it will LEAVE Apple on or before the 14th and to expect delivery either on Friday or Monday/Tuesday the week after.
I enquired about Saturday delivery and she seemed perplexed and checked it against UPS/TNT UK (via phone) but their offices are closed and she didn't have a saturday delivery option on her system.
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1. 99% likely it will arrive on 14th if you were in early order catchment (will say on your invoice)

2. Saturday delivery is now available on web-site, but not for iphone pre-orders

3. Call centre staff know nothing about shipment until after the event. Alot of people keep quoting them but, I repeat, they know nothing about pre-orders.

hopes thats all cleared up
 
colonelbutt said:
except that vodafone don't sim unlock a contract iphone until the contract finishes

I guess that just effects your resale value

BTW I have always found that sim-free phone + sim-only contract is cheaper or the same price as a subsidised phone.
With loads of more advantages, e.g.;
1. higher resale value of phone
2. can change phone mid-contract via ebay or equivalent
3. can use foreign sims when abroad

etc.
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vodafone will unlock contract iphones even if they arent at the end of the contract, i managed to get 2 unlocked 1 month after its release

i agree, i always buy sim free iphones, and get sim only contracts, over the course of 12/18/24 months it effectively works out the same as a contracts cost but you arent tied in to anything
 
Three order update

Anyone that has ordered with Three, I have just got off the phone to them, if you had troubles on Friday or Saturday it might be worth giving them a call as I had managed to order 5 CONTRACTS over the course of Friday evening and Saturday morning... swiftly cancelled four of those!!

Anyway, she said that although their delivery is due for Friday at the moment, they're not sure when the units are arriving from Apple, so it could be Friday, Saturday, or Monday that they are out for delivery, and they're sent tracked with Royal Mail, so the good thing with that is you'll be able to pick it up from a local depot if you miss the delivery, it can sometimes be a bit harder with the other couriers to get your stuff.

She seemed fairly confident that Three could fulfil the orders up until them in that batch, but probably worth taking that with a pinch of salt... If I've not heard anything about delivery by Friday, I'll give them another call and repost here.
 
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colonelbutt said:
1. 99% likely it will arrive on 14th if you were in early order catchment (will say on your invoice)

2. Saturday delivery is now available on web-site, but not for iphone pre-orders

3. Call centre staff know nothing about shipment until after the event. Alot of people keep quoting them but, I repeat, they know nothing about pre-orders.

hopes thats all cleared up
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would be great if it comes, i hope the note that im away after 15th wont effect a chance 14th delivery :/

anyhow its not the end of the world

feel for you ray, hope you get it m8 🙂
 
I placed an online order with Carphone Warehouse on Monday morning for an O2 upgrade - was just about to leave work when I got an email though to say the order had been cancelled. After speaking to customer services, it turns out there'd been an issue with the internal credit check which forced the cancellation of the order. CS suggested nipping into a store to try to get it sorted out.

Luckily, there's a store just round the corner from work. Twenty-five minutes later, a new order is back in the system for delivery on Friday to my work address. Interestingly, when I asked about stock for the handset (a black 64GB) the assistant reckoned that the system was showing more than 500 available in their warehouse. Adamant about Friday delivery as well. Take it with a pinch of salt but there you go.

CPW couldn't have been more helpful as well, so fair play to them.
 
Just for anybody's interest if you work for Dixons retail (Currys, PC World, Knowhow) Then you get 30% discount on O2 tariffs including the IP4S. Just have to know your employee number and then let them know when you set up your contract.

Its cause Dixons is a corporate partner with O2.
 
MikeWilson said:
I remember this (although I was going slightly mad between stores at the time).

Thanks for posting the summary - hopefully it will keep people calm 🙂

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Three and T-Mobile only share part of the same network through a company called Arqiva which was set up to erect shared masts for both networks. Not all Three and T-Mobile masts are Arqiva masts. It's a step in the right direction and these shared masts are replacing standalone ones for each network but it is still very far from sharing the same mast network across the UK.

However Orange and T-Mobile share masts through a company called "Everything Everywhere" which if I remember correctly, requires the user to explicitly opt into.

O2 share a few masts with Vodafone and there's always been a little bit of crossover going on although the big mast sharing venture has to be between T-Mobile and Orange which together now make the UK's biggest network. Probably a good choice for reliability given how much their masts overlap each other during the days when they competed in the same areas for coverage.
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erm... WRONG

MBNL is the company 3 and tmobile created to manage their SHARED 3G network. ARQIVA supplies SOME cell sites to MBNL.

at least get your facts right when your correcting someone. As I just did with you😎😛😎

p.s. Orange is now seeking to use the MBNL shared network and contribute some of it's own sites by transferring them to MBNL, it will scrap it's remaining "overlapping" sites so there goes your 1st choice everything everywhere supernetwork theory too!

oh, the proof? http://www.talk3g.co.uk/showthread....ner-for-pioneering-3G-network-integration-pro and http://www.mbnl.co.uk/
 
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hello guys

I have preordered two 32g , i wanna ask , can i go n buy two more in store? I need them as gifts , do they allow this , or they will ask for my address when buying in store ?
 
I'm patiently waiting for my iPhone 4s to be delivered by Apple, but how do you buy Applecare PLUS in the UK?

Doesn't mention it on the UK site.
 
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