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UK iPhone 5s and 5c Thread

clueless78 said:
Mine is showing the same, it's going to have a massive carbon footprint what with the to-ing and fro-ing between China and Hong Kong and now on to the US!
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UPS are messing with us! So all the flights we were tracking never had our phones on! its odd earlier i kinda though it might be going to the US but there were no flights from Hong Kong to the US scheduled!
 
d123 said:
Looks like 32GB & 64GB silver and grey are both in stock at present.

Direct link and tick the box for 32GB and colour and it shows stock with delivery on Thursday 3rd for PAYG. Priced £629.

http://store.three.co.uk/view/product/ql_catalog/threecatdevice/2661
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I'm going to go in armed with this to the 3 store tomorrow morning. I'm sure I'll get the same story but I am going past it anyway.

My concern is that they will refuse to unlock it. I know it is "illegal" for them to do so, but they can make it very painful, and I really can't be bothered for that!
 
Nt79 said:
What? Anchorage! I live in england! Wtf ups?!
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Yep that the flight I was tracking....I bet that was the quickest way to get them out of hong kong trust me once it is out of HK and into the rest of the world, things move quicker!
 
Nt79 said:
UPS are messing with us! So all the flights we were tracking never had our phones on! its odd earlier i kinda though it might be going to the US but there were no flights from Hong Kong to the US scheduled!
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What's your estimated delivery date? Mine is still today (just turned Wednesday) but I don't see how it can make the trip from Alaska to the UK so quickly...
 
JNaut said:
What's your estimated delivery date? Mine is still today (just turned Wednesday) but I don't see how it can make the trip from Alaska to the UK so quickly...
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Well i wouldn't be surprised UPS are amazing in what they can do! Can i ask what phone you got? As if your in my batch we might both be getting a good knock at the door tomorrow!


Copperrick said:
Yep that the flight I was tracking....I bet that was the quickest way to get them out of hong kong trust me once it is out of HK and into the rest of the world, things move quicker!
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I do have faith, i believe in UPS and they said the 4th so I'm not panicking (yet!) this was a nice little twist of events actually, more planes to stalk :p
 
andy9l said:
I'm going to go in armed with this to the 3 store tomorrow morning. I'm sure I'll get the same story but I am going past it anyway.

My concern is that they will refuse to unlock it. I know it is "illegal" for them to do so, but they can make it very painful, and I really can't be bothered for that!
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While it's not illegal for them to refuse to unlock in the first 12 months, I very much doubt they would. Just for a start it's a totally different part of Three that processes the unlock requests and is nothing to do with Retail, so I wouldn't worry about that.

FYI on the OFCOM page on guidelines about unlocking.

SIM locking

Key points

SIM locking is permitted under current EU and Oftel guidelines as mobiles sold are subsidised - therefore it is allowable for the mobile companies to recover the associated cost of subsidising the mobile phones sold.

However, mobiles should be able to be unlocked once the subsidy has been recovered. This should generally be within a year if not before.

Charging for the associated admin costs of unlocking a mobile is acceptable, but customers should not expect to pay more than £30 + VAT
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I wouldn't even mention unlocking to the sales staff, just do it on the phone or online when you get home.
 
Nt79 said:
Well i wouldn't be surprised UPS are amazing in what they can do! Can i ask what phone you got? As if your in my batch we might both be getting a good knock at the door tomorrow!
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32gb Space Gray. Here's hoping!
 
Alaska? What are they playing at? First round trips, then scanning from time to time in Hong Kong, now to the USA. Apple will soon be the No. 1 contributor to global warming. UPS, stop this nonsense and deliver our beautiful new phones!!!!
 
I can confirm the same mess with mine.It's final destination is Koeln, Germany the phone came here (Koeln) left back to Hong Kong and now alaska?Estimated delivery 4th October

Anchorage, AK, United States 01.10.2013 14:29 Arrival Scan
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 01.10.2013 21:10 Departure Scan
Koeln, Germany 01.10.2013 3:44 Package data processed by brokerage Waiting for clearance / Released by Clearing Agency. Now in-transit
01.10.2013 0:53 Package data processed by brokerage Waiting for clearance
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 01.10.2013 0:15 Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China 30.09.2013 22:30 Departure Scan
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 30.09.2013 16:50 Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China 30.09.2013 14:15 Departure Scan
30.09.2013 13:13 Origin Scan
China 30.09.2013 22:50 Order Processed: Ready for UPS
 
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Holte139 said:
The change in destination for our phones!
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Well when you look on a map Hong Kong -> Anchorage -> Cologne -> UK would be quite sensible route, and at least our phones have escaped the Chinese holidays!


BSben said:
Alaska? What are they playing at? First round trips, then scanning from time to time in Hong Kong, now to the USA. Apple will soon be the No. 1 contributor to global warming. UPS, stop this nonsense and deliver our beautiful new phones!!!!
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Those repeat scans at Hong Kong and Shenzhen were probably errors as they were out of sync, i think our phones just spent some time sitting in Hong Kong

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apostolo said:
I can confirm the same mess with mine.It's final destination is Koeln, Germany the phone came here (Koeln) left back to Honk Kong and now alaska?Estimated delivery 4th October

Anchorage, AK, United States 01.10.2013 14:29 Arrival Scan
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 01.10.2013 21:10 Departure Scan
Koeln, Germany 01.10.2013 3:44 Package data processed by brokerage Waiting for clearance / Released by Clearing Agency. Now in-transit
01.10.2013 0:53 Package data processed by brokerage Waiting for clearance
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 01.10.2013 0:15 Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China 30.09.2013 22:30 Departure Scan
Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 30.09.2013 16:50 Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China 30.09.2013 14:15 Departure Scan
30.09.2013 13:13 Origin Scan
China 30.09.2013 22:50 Order Processed: Ready for UPS
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i think the Hong Long departure after Germany and before Anchorage was a glitch/error in tracking but i have no clue why you phone from Germany would go to Anchorage before UK, ours went Hong Kong -> Anchorage
 
Is it just me who's iPhone has gone from China to Anchorage, AK??
 

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Is it just me who's iPhone has gone from China to Anchorage, AK??
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All of our batch has, its quite sensible really Hong Kong -> Anchorage ect. In fact i bet it will now go to UPS World Port in Louisville

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Can i ask how you posted the screenshot? Im not sure how to do it :)
 
Nt79 said:
All of our batch has, its quite sensible really Hong Kong -> Anchorage ect. In fact i bet it will now go to UPS World Port in Louisville

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Can i ask how you posted the screenshot? Im not sure how to do it :)
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So our batch won't be here tomorrow for sure right???
And click edit attachment at the bottom above submit. p.s I'm on iPod touch ;)
 
Nt79 said:
All of our batch has, its quite sensible really Hong Kong -> Anchorage ect. In fact i bet it will now go to UPS World Port in Louisville

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Can i ask how you posted the screenshot? Im not sure how to do it :)
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I agree check out the planned departures on the right!
 

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