Itunes Match is great. it's up to 25,000 songs plus anything that you buy though itunes, and the prices is £21.99 /year - not month.
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Itunes Match is great. it's up to 25,000 songs plus anything that you buy though itunes, and the prices is £21.99 /year - not month.
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I dont think ive ever had a single voicemail for the past 2 years. Just dont use my phone as a phone all that much
No it wasn't, it all depended on whether the voicemail solution the networks used supported it or not. EE/Orange/T-Mobile have clearly being upgrading their voicemail if they intend to support it later this year / early next year.
Cool, thanks for that, think i'll do it Friday first thing, if it doesn't get done till Monday then so be it.....i just want it to work for now
Can keep my 4 on me until it changes.Oh right i didn't know it was 25000 of your own stuff plus itunes material. How do you go about selecting which songs on your itunes make up the 25000? Thats good its 21.99 a year, for some reason i thought it was per month
My friends shipped last night. He has tracking info.
People on O2 community have also started to show theirs has shipped.
Anyone could carry the VVM system, it's the price tag for an iPhone specific system (at the time, don't know if that is still the case) that most carriers bulked at.
O2 got initial exclusivity because they were the only ones prepared to invest in the system (among other reasons)
Got an email just now:
Dear *************,
Thank you for ordering from The Carphone Warehouse.
We've processed your order and we'll be dispatching it from our warehouse very soon*. You'll be able to track your parcel on the morning of your delivery date using the link below:
Yodel Job Number *****************
<http://selfhelp.carphonewarehouse.com/SelfHelp/request.do?view()=****************>
Please keep this email safe until you have received your order.
*Please note all iPhone 5 orders will be dispatched for delivery from 21st September onwards.
YOUR ORDER DETAILS
Order Date: 14/09/2012
Order Number: ********
Order total: 269.00
ABOUT YOUR DELIVERY
All phones, Pay monthly SIM cards and other items that cost more than £50 are delivered by Yodel courier.
Someone must be at home to sign for Yodel deliveries. If there's nobody at home to sign for your delivery, Yodel will leave a number you can call to arrange a more convenient delivery time.
All other items that cost less than £50 (excluding phones) are delivered by Royal Mail. These deliveries usually take 2-3 working days.
If you ordered more than one product at the same time, they might not be delivered together because we sometimes source our products from different locations.
You can find out more about our deliveries by clicking on this link:
<<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/deliveries>>
IF YOU ORDERED A PAY MONTHLY PHONE
We'll usually connect you within 24 hours of your phone being delivered. If you have any problems connecting to your network, please give us a call on 0845 601 0410.
IF YOU ORDERED A PAY AS YOU GO PHONE
It can take up to two working days for any inclusive top-up credit you bought with your phone to be added to your account. If your account hasn't been credited after two working days, please give us a call on 0870 087 0168.
RETURNS AND REFUNDS
Under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 you have the right to cancel your order and return the goods within 14 calendar days of the first attempted delivery. If you have placed an order for services (including ringtones) you won't be able to cancel your order once the performance of the service has begun.
For more info about returns and refunds, please go to <<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/returns>>
WHAT IF I NEED MORE HELP?
You'll find the answers to most common questions at:
<<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/help>>
For help with getting started, please try
<<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/gettingstarted>>
Thank you for shopping at The Carphone Warehouse.
Thank you for ordering from The Carphone Warehouse.
We've processed your order and we'll be dispatching it from our warehouse very soon*. You'll be able to track your parcel on the morning of your delivery date using the link below:
Yodel Job Number *****************
<http://selfhelp.carphonewarehouse.com/SelfHelp/request.do?view()=****************>
Please keep this email safe until you have received your order.
*Please note all iPhone 5 orders will be dispatched for delivery from 21st September onwards.
YOUR ORDER DETAILS
Order Date: 14/09/2012
Order Number: ********
Order total: 269.00
ABOUT YOUR DELIVERY
All phones, Pay monthly SIM cards and other items that cost more than £50 are delivered by Yodel courier.
Someone must be at home to sign for Yodel deliveries. If there's nobody at home to sign for your delivery, Yodel will leave a number you can call to arrange a more convenient delivery time.
All other items that cost less than £50 (excluding phones) are delivered by Royal Mail. These deliveries usually take 2-3 working days.
If you ordered more than one product at the same time, they might not be delivered together because we sometimes source our products from different locations.
You can find out more about our deliveries by clicking on this link:
<<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/deliveries>>
IF YOU ORDERED A PAY MONTHLY PHONE
We'll usually connect you within 24 hours of your phone being delivered. If you have any problems connecting to your network, please give us a call on 0845 601 0410.
IF YOU ORDERED A PAY AS YOU GO PHONE
It can take up to two working days for any inclusive top-up credit you bought with your phone to be added to your account. If your account hasn't been credited after two working days, please give us a call on 0870 087 0168.
RETURNS AND REFUNDS
Under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 you have the right to cancel your order and return the goods within 14 calendar days of the first attempted delivery. If you have placed an order for services (including ringtones) you won't be able to cancel your order once the performance of the service has begun.
For more info about returns and refunds, please go to <<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/returns>>
WHAT IF I NEED MORE HELP?
You'll find the answers to most common questions at:
<<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/help>>
For help with getting started, please try
<<http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/gettingstarted>>
Thank you for shopping at The Carphone Warehouse.
I've also just had a text from O2 confirming that I've been switched to my new tarriff.
I was under the impression that they already had stock and were in the process of allocating? They are still taking orders on their website and over the phone for guaranteed friday delivery so they must have a lot of stock.. Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see!
My friends shipped last night. He has tracking info.
People on O2 community have also started to show theirs has shipped.
Cheers
I've no idea what happens if you've got over 25,000 items and if/how you can select which ones are held in the iCloud. (Sounds like my library is pathetic with only 4760 songs).
Sorry
Ah that's good news! I'm hoping I receive my email soon! Did you order online or over the phone?
I love iTunes match but It depends how many devices you have/want access to your music on.
I currently have access to my whole music collection on my iPad, iPhone and MacBook without having to worrying about syning or managment of space etc!
Its not flawless and I wish playlist was synced also but its a brilliant system, its one less thing that I worry about, I just access my music as and when I want to listen to it!
Plus as an added feature that I hadn't thought of before, on Monday, I preordered the new Killers album, before iTunes Match I would have to wake up early to download the new songs on release day before work, nowadays I just go to work as normal and the songs become avaible to play as and when I need them.
Its also not £21.99 a month, Its £20 odd a year, can't quite remember the exact price!
If you have multiple devices I would highly recomend a years sub!
Over the phone 3.30pm on Fri 14th. The upfront charge for my handset appeared on my online credit card banking statement a couple of days ago.
Match is great as I have access to my entire music library (70GB or 9578 songs) wherever I go. It means I dont need a 64gb phone although I did get the 32Gb as the 8mp camera will take more space as will the 1080p videos.
How good match is though depends on your connection speed. On wifi I can just play any song I like, if im in a poor reception area it takes a while to download the song (it downloads it rather than stream although I think I saw iOS6 changes this to stream now).
It can also make your ipod app a little sluggish as it shows EVERYTHING you own which takes a while sometimes, You can turn it off and only display whats on your phone already. But that kind of defeats the object.
Its also a backup as it uploads all your music that iTunes doesnt have to their servers. How many people here have thousands of songs and no offsite backup? I run a business so actually have local backups, offsite backups and i use iDrive.com for cloud backups. Still love itunes match though.
should make an iTunes match thread guys - also because I use it and have a horrible time with iPhone integration /album art, but this is the wrong thread.
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I was under the impression that they already had stock and were in the process of allocating? They are still taking orders on their website and over the phone for guaranteed friday delivery so they must have a lot of stock.. Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see!
Yes, that was my impression as well, but well, didn't feel the need to argue with him.
Hurray!! Do you know roughly what time you placed the order?
Samer here, ordered at 8:37 on the 14th direct from apple, but still sat at "Processing Items"
Managed to finally get my 3 nano-sim working in my iPhone 4. Wasn't 3's fault, was just me being stupid tbh.
Didn't realise I had to sync the phone with iTunes before it'll see the carrier change. A well, every day is a school day.
Just to pass comment on the 3 "network" in my area. Damn its fast. 4 times faster than my broadband. I get 0.5 Meg upload 3's 3G gives me 2.2 Meg.
Didn't realise I had to sync the phone with iTunes before it'll see the carrier change. A well, every day is a school day.
Just to pass comment on the 3 "network" in my area. Damn its fast. 4 times faster than my broadband. I get 0.5 Meg upload 3's 3G gives me 2.2 Meg.
They haven't shipped as such, some of us including me just have DPD tracking numbers stating 'Awaiting receipt of parcel' on a next day delivery service. Stating collection on the 19/9.
I use DPD at work and the 'Awaiting receipt of a parcel' just means a lorry hasn't been there to collect the no doubt massive pallet of iPhones which will then wing their way to distribution centers.