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UK iPhone 5 thread
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Indeed.
I never thought I'd have to enjoy ios6 on my 4S for this long.
Time it arrives the iPhone 5S or iPhone 6 rumours will have started.
I like the new O2 contracts though. Pay quite a bit upfront and then have a more reasonably monthly cost. 32gb cost £295 upfront and then it's £26 a month. Unlimited calls and texts and 1GB internet (with tethering). Thats perfecto for me.
Sim free your also not tied into paying for a contract should your phone get broken or stolen. What if you loose your job? Still have to pay that £30-£40 a month for a phone you can no longer afford.
You can switch at any time as better deals are always coming along.
Your phone will take any SIM, great if you ever go abroad, you just buy a local cheap sim and away you go.
Recently most of the networks put up everyones contract prices and there was nothing you could do about it as it's in the small print. Some people had just signed a contract for 2 years expecting to pay £xx a month but now it was more.
I pay £12.90 a month on Three for 200 mins, 5000 text and unlimited HSPA+ (42mbps max) internet and tethering works (although against the TOS you can still use it unlike on orange). I think in the past year ive used my iPhone for a total of 200 mins, for me its all about the data and most of the contract deals all include a pissy amount of data. Which is annoying as its the one thing your phone will use without your say so, at least with calls you choose when it uses the minutes.
What happens when your in a 24 month contract on O2 or Voda and everyone else is on an LTE network?
Freedom man, go SIM free and enjoy the freedom. It's like every day is no pants day
But it's O2. Their network is crap and data speeds are ridiculous. I always thought Vodafone was pretty snappy but 3 is like another world! I just hope their network doesn't buckle like O2's did when they took on more subscribers than their infrastructure could cope with.
I'm clinging onto the hope that it has started preparing to ship and the couriers have it but Apple haven't updated the status yet. Either way, there's no way we're getting it before Monday, which is the last day of my window.
Sim free your also not tied into paying for a contract should your phone get broken or stolen. What if you loose your job? Still have to pay that £30-£40 a month for a phone you can no longer afford.
You can switch at any time as better deals are always coming along.
Your phone will take any SIM, great if you ever go abroad, you just buy a local cheap sim and away you go.
Recently most of the networks put up everyones contract prices and there was nothing you could do about it as it's in the small print. Some people had just signed a contract for 2 years expecting to pay £xx a month but now it was more.
I pay £12.90 a month on Three for 200 mins, 5000 text and unlimited HSPA+ (42mbps max) internet and tethering works (although against the TOS you can still use it unlike on orange). I think in the past year ive used my iPhone for a total of 200 mins, for me its all about the data and most of the contract deals all include a pissy amount of data. Which is annoying as its the one thing your phone will use without your say so, at least with calls you choose when it uses the minutes.
What happens when your in a 24 month contract on O2 or Voda and everyone else is on an LTE network?
Freedom man, go SIM free and enjoy the freedom. It's like every day is no pants day
I've been looking at that 3 sim only deal for a while now. Current paying £20 a month on a rolling one month contract with Tesco: 250 minutes (use about 5) Unlimited Texts (Almost exclusively use iMessage now) and unlimited data.
Where in the country are you and how are you finding 3's signal? I'm thinking about getting a PAYG sim from 3 to act a test run so I can gauge their network strength where I live, if they pass the test I'd probably jump ship and join them, tesco don't offer tethering.
I'm in London. Signal pretty strong almost everywhere I go, both indoors and outdoors. There are a few blackspots in the City though but that's the case for almost every mobile operator (tall buildings, glass, steel, etc)
Data speeds wise twice as fast as O2.
I havent experienced O2 being slower than 3 yet (i'm sure I will based on what everyone says!). 3 internet is great but in the last year their signal indoors has been terrible. I'm happy to be able to make calls in my flat again.
Not the same build quality all round then?
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I guess if some people's phones show up we will know.
Its probably worse - they've shut off the 2g orange backup.
I cancelled and went sim only on tmobile (unlimited data, same network as orange).
If you get a sim free phone, just grab a cheap pay as you go sim and stick £5 on it and test out the call quality and data speeds. That's what I'm planning on doing. I might wait until next year to see what 3's LTE tariffs are like though before I make a decision to change.
Based on the cheerleading for 3 I have read on this thread, I tried out a 3 sim in my phone for a while last week to decide if I wanted to move from my current O2 simplicity plan. I got fine phone connection everywhere I needed it, but data speeds were terrible - 0.3Mbps average in my house, and no better than 1Mbps at my main work locations. I live in SW London and work in the City and SE1. Disappointed, but I suppose all the networks have variable coverage so different networks are going to be right for different people.
I am on an old simplicity plan that still gives me unlimited data, which is nice. The only network that has a competitive plan is 3, and obviously that doesn't work for me. I hate the idea of being trapped in a long term contract. I get 5Mbps data speeds with O2 in most places I spend time.
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Im currently on o2 simplicity for iphone..it works fine..no problems...of course that isn't to say there isn't something better that i haven't found yet
That's odd...as I work in the City and SE1 as well...just run speed tests and my 3 connection is giving me circa 5.9Mbps whilst my O2 is 1.3Mbps....go figure, guess it depends on several factors, such as exact location, phone, case or naked, etc....
3's signal here in the City of London (Monument/London Bridge) is pretty bad inside, 2 of my colleagues have just 1 bar. Where as on O2 i have 4 bars-full signal.
OK. So now it's almost 1pm and it seems that no one has had their order updated. So it's looking like you took a week off work for nothing Cloverfield33.
I am really annoyed by the lack of communication from Apple. Rang Apple CS again and the default answer is still being played "don't worry your order will be delivered on or before the [insert date] "
OK. So now it's almost 1pm and it seems that no one has had their order updated. So it's looking like you took a week off work for nothing Cloverfield33.
I am really annoyed by the lack of communication from Apple. Rang Apple CS again and the default answer is still being played "don't worry your order will be delivered on or before the [insert date] "
I have just cancelled my Apple order and ordered next day delivery from CPW
I know it will be locked once I put my sim in it but I am willing to pay the small amount to unlock if I at sometime need too.
I bet you all get updates tonight and I will perhaps get the one I tried to reserve this am.
I just could not take the uncertainty.
Don't give up hope. I'm in the UK, ordered on 14th Sep with delivery 02-08th October. My status has JUST gone to prepare for shipping !!!!!
Cloverfield....it may just happen
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Not sure how long it takes to go from preparing for shipment, to shipped. But I'm guessing I'm looking at a Monday delivery which puts Apple in the clear
Cloverfield....it may just happen
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Not sure how long it takes to go from preparing for shipment, to shipped. But I'm guessing I'm looking at a Monday delivery which puts Apple in the clear