Cardiff store last time round was about 50 in queue at 6am and thats a city centre at a large apple store.
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Cardiff store last time round was about 50 in queue at 6am and thats a city centre at a large apple store.
I went to Trafford centre for 4s and only got there about 09:30 think I wait for 3hrs. But I was only able to buy the less popular high end and higher priced :-(
model, so if you want a particular colour and model i would aim between 5-6am, but this was trafford centre so it will vary on location.
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looks that way, what is the worst that could happen, just call up and say you lost your sim card and they will send you a new one... all will be fine
im worried now about T-mobile and their nano sims. I'm getting a sim free 5 direct from apple but need a nano.
Does anyone have any good instructions for cutting the sim down to size?
I'll be cutting a micro to nano. not sure if that makes a difference.
Thanks all.
Does anyone have any good instructions for cutting the sim down to size?
I'll be cutting a micro to nano. not sure if that makes a difference.
Thanks all.
When I moved from T-Mobile to Three 2 years ago I was advised to wait for my number to port over before registering on My3.
Apparently you can as long as you don't go into the centre chip part although I'm sure most of the main networks will have nano sims.
Was in the store the other day and they confirmed they have had people queueing overnight. If Orange had not properly screwed my order I wouldn't be queuing Friday morning! Hey ho - has probably worked out for the nest.
T-Mobile are being total gits about it, I'm going to be cutting like the chap above.
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there's no way on earth those earpods WON'T be anything apart from awful.
Hey mate! mines also exeter! im gunna try get their for anytime from 6 onwards (based on me waking up) Last year the queue was insane so i wouldnt get there later than 7 just to be sure you would get one! After all the early bird catches the worm
Listened to them in the store the other day - imho they are still crap. I have a pair of Phillips sports headphones (amongst others) that have absorbed god knows how much sweat and they still sound much better than the new apple headphones.
That's the first time I've heard a city with a population of 120000 as rural
I'd get yourself to Princesshay for 6am. Last year I went to the Trafford Centre at around 8:15am and was a long way back in the queue. They did give out slips for those in the queue reserving a particular model. After 30 minutes of not moving I gave up and ordered on the web for delivery 2 weeks later.Keep in mind demand for this iPhone seems to be a LOT higher than previous launches - wouldnt surprise me if people from the big cities travelled out to the smaller stores to secure a phone on launch day.
However - I'd get there at 5.30am for you - not much earlier than 6am but I think a lot of people will aim to get in for 6am so arriving that little bit earlier could be beneficial.
Decided to bite the bullet and take my Vodafone upgrade, but the 16GB has now gone to 2-3 Weeks delivery
Will go to Vodafone on Saturday and see if they have any in store.
Will go to Vodafone on Saturday and see if they have any in store.
do it by text, I did it online 24 hours ago and nothing happened, did it by text (as per the very helpful advice on here) 3 minutes ago and it's all up and running.
That's the first time I've heard a city with a population of 120000 as rural
It will take a while for us all to park our tractors!!!
I wouldn't listen to anything the live support has to say, they seem to be clueless. HD voice (wideband audio) works over 3G, thats how Three also have it. The link i posted gives a run down about it. Bit more about it on this link on there page, down the bottom left
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/our-network/glossary/
Anyones quidco tracking for the 3 deal?
It's been well over 24 hours since I ordered and I've got a horrible feeling mine isnt tracking. Forgot to get transaction id too £96.88 isn't an insignificant sum of money
It's been well over 24 hours since I ordered and I've got a horrible feeling mine isnt tracking. Forgot to get transaction id too
£96.88 isn't an insignificant sum of money
I can vouch for this. I originally used the website and nothing happened. Tried the text method and hey presto i'm up and running 5 mins later.
I'm in Exeter too.....and when i was getting the iPhone 4 delivered on launch day, my missus was going to work which is past the apple store.....and she said there was probably a queue of 100 people there at the time!! (This was about 8.30am so the store had opened.....but god knows what it was like at say 7am!)