UK iPhone 5s and 5c Thread

[OVERTASK]

So, yeah, O2 are doing a deal and maybe its already been mentioned in the other 50 pages, buut here it is.

On O2 Refresh, you can get a 16GB space grey 5S for £169.99 up front. You pick the £17 airtime plan and pay the £169.99. The phones are in stock and will be delivered on Tuesday.

As soon as you get it, phone O2 and pay off the remainder of the phone plan which is 24 x £15 = £360.00. The moment you do that, your airtime contract is cancelled too, but you won't pay any money on that.

Total cost - £529.99 and it's here on Tuesday. Oh, and the moment it arrives, fill out the unlocking request form.

Have you tried that yourself?
Also, I believe they are not currently unlocking the 5s.

EDIT:
To my understanding you also need to pay off your airtime contract meaning another 17£x24 added to the bill bringing the total price to 937.99.

 

[rh1]

That makes both of us, maybe our orders will be processed sooner I had my processing email more or less after I ordered at 12:08 am on Release night. I also go the same 7-10 day shipping, wish it had been sooner more like 1-3

That's makes three of us, I had my confirmation order at around 12:04 am on release night as well. Here's to hoping they get dispatched next weekend and get delivered first week of October.

 

[dspalton]

My ordeal with o2
Ordered with business services at bang on 8am
2 x 64GB Gold, told in stock no issue.
3-5 days delivery
Checked for update today, apparently my order is pre-order status, on a 3-6 weeks back log...

Fuming with o2, suggest if you have an order with them, you might just wanna cancel it... also told that its now 12 weeks maximum wait time.

DAve

 

[Loopy65]

You need to copy paste or right click and open in new tab for CPW links to work.

even then these links are just to the general iphone 5s page and the only thing that comes up when I click 'buy' is the contract info/prices.

No biggie, I'll try and be patient for my Apple order lol

 

[oVerboost]

So, yeah, O2 are doing a deal and maybe its already been mentioned in the other 50 pages, buut here it is.

On O2 Refresh, you can get a 16GB space grey 5S for £169.99 up front. You pick the £17 airtime plan and pay the £169.99. The phones are in stock and will be delivered on Tuesday.

As soon as you get it, phone O2 and pay off the remainder of the phone plan which is 24 x £15 = £360.00. The moment you do that, your airtime contract is cancelled too, but you won't pay any money on that.

Total cost - £529.99 and it's here on Tuesday. Oh, and the moment it arrives, fill out the unlocking request form.

Air time contract is not cancelled once the handset is paid off, you need to pay that on top, meaning it's not £529.99 at all.

 

[d123]

even then these links are just to the general iphone 5s page and the only thing that comes up when I click 'buy' is the contract info/prices.

No biggie, I'll try and be patient for my Apple order lol

Strange, if I click the link it goes to the generic page, if I open it in a new tab it goes to the simfree page.

 

[afters]

Have you tried that yourself?
Also, I believe they are not currently unlocking the 5s.

EDIT:
To my understanding you also need to pay off your airtime contract meaning another 17£x24 added to the bill bringing the total price to 937.99.

Air time contract is not cancelled once the handset is paid off, you need to pay that on top, meaning it's not £529.99 at all.

What the OP said is 100% correct as I've done this before with an iPhone 5.

If you look on their website, you can see that the cost of the phone and the contract are split. You can 'buy out' your phone at any time by paying off the remainder of the phone cost and then simply cancel your contract. If you cancel within 7days (or maybe it's 14), you don't even get charged for the first month of your contract, so will get it for £529.99 or whatever it is.

Make sure you put your unlock request in first though. I'm not sure whether the 6 month minimum period before unlock applies but it didn't when I bought the 5 on the same plan.

 

[daijholt]

That's makes three of us, I had my confirmation order at around 12:04 am on release night as well. Here's to hoping they get dispatched next weekend and get delivered first week of October.

Same here.

Since they emphasise "business days" I figure it won't change from processing on weekends anyway, so I'll keep an eye on it and if it hasn't changed from processing by mid next week I'll accept it'll probably be early to mid October before I have it.

On a lighter note, CPW are expecting a delivery of all colours next week, to go out to customers and stores a few days later. so hopefully that means our online orders from apple might dispatch around the same time. Logically you'd think they'd fulfil their own orders first!

 

[Hustle]

I've just sent an unlock request to EE for my iPhone 5S purchased via CarphoneWarehouse.

It does say on the form they wont unlock unless the customer AND phone have been on EE for at least 6 months, so I'm guessing they wont unlock it yet.

Not a huge problem, but I travel a lot so it's nice to be able to pop in a foreign sim if I need to.

 

[N0ddie]

Air time contract is not cancelled once the handset is paid off, you need to pay that on top, meaning it's not £529.99 at all.

This man speakith the truth. Phone might be paid off but you still have to fullfil the airtime contract.

Also, allegedly they don't unlock phones straight after release. Gotta wait 3 months I believe.

 

[tollickd]

I will be in the UK end of October beginning of November and hope to be picking up a gold 5s. I am going to see if my brother would be able to order one for me.

 

[Loopy65]

Strange, if I click the link it goes to the generic page, if I open it in a new tab it goes to the simfree page.

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thanks .. i eventually managed it but not sure how! lol .. thought it could be a safari thing but wouldnt do it in firefox either ..

I'm going to try order one and if it arrives by 30th (as stated) I'll cancel my apple order!
Thanks again

 

[MagicTorch]

There is a pricing anomaly on the CPW website if you put through a Vodafone order. The price for 32gb is less than 16gb! I have just placed an order for delivery of a 32GB 5S on Monday & cancelled my order for a 16GB order with Apple store.

The pricing on the CPW website is:

Iphone 5S 16gb: Phone cost £299, £30 per month, 2 year contract

Iphone 5S 32gb: Phone cost £239, £30 per month, 2 year contract

So the 32GB 5S is £60 less than the 16GB 5S!!! Quidco are offering £100 cashback on 5S upgrades via CPW' so the handset price for the 32GB 5S is effectively £139! Also, you receive an accessory bundle (claimed to be worth £120)

Admittedly, the £30 tariff only gets you 100mins, unlimited texts & 100MB data, but I don't use 100mins a month & will just try & use WiFi as opposed to 3G in the short term.

I am currently with Vodafone, but out of contract, so I have put my order through as an 'Upgrade' order, but the same pricing is listed for new Vodafone contracts via CPW.

 

[Dave245]

That's makes three of us, I had my confirmation order at around 12:04 am on release night as well. Here's to hoping they get dispatched next weekend and get delivered first week of October.

It could be earlier, it did say 7-10 business days, if it's 7 and I'm not sure if they count the Friday (cuss we ordered the early hours). Maybe wishful thinking on my part tho both my accessories have shipped tho and my phone (32GB Gold) is now stuck on processing.

 

[d123]

I've just sent an unlock request to EE for my iPhone 5S purchased via CarphoneWarehouse.

It does say on the form they wont unlock unless the customer AND phone have been on EE for at least 6 months, so I'm guessing they wont unlock it yet.

Not a huge problem, but I travel a lot so it's nice to be able to pop in a foreign sim if I need to.

It would be an absolute miracle (or getting an EE agent on a good day for you and not following procedure), part of the unlock process is doing an IMEI trace in their system and checking for the minimum 6 months in use.

Even 5 months and 29 days would see the request rejected.

 

[MagicTorch]

There is a pricing anomaly on the CPW website if you put through a Vodafone order. The price for 32gb is less than 16gb! I have just placed an order for delivery of a 32GB 5S on Monday & cancelled my order for a 16GB order with Apple store.

The pricing on the CPW website is:

Iphone 5S 16gb: Phone cost £299, £30 per month, 2 year contract

Iphone 5S 32gb: Phone cost £239, £30 per month, 2 year contract

So the 32GB 5S is £60 less than the 16GB 5S!!! Quidco are offering £100 cashback on 5S upgrades via CPW' so the handset price for the 32GB 5S is effectively £139! Also, you receive an accessory bundle (claimed to be worth £120)

Admittedly, the £30 tariff only gets you 100mins, unlimited texts & 100MB data, but I don't use 100mins a month & will just try & use WiFi as opposed to 3G in the short term.

I am currently with Vodafone, but out of contract, so I have put my order through as an 'Upgrade' order, but the same pricing is listed for new Vodafone contracts via CPW.

The 'free' £120 accessory bundle consists of:

Gear4 Guardian case, Bluetooth headset, Invisible shield screen protector and Skull Candy Headphones.

 

[Gadger Snr]

Thank you Merrick - ;-)

Spel

 

[dogg]

Has anyone contacted CPW about a refund of the difference between yesterday's premium SIM Free price and today's regular price? Would be interesting to see if they offer a refund as a gesture of goodwill or advise retuning for full refund. Not sure if it was a typo on their part.

 

[hippyharry]

Air time contract is not cancelled once the handset is paid off, you need to pay that on top, meaning it's not £529.99 at all.

Nope. The airtime isnt part of a 24 month contract. Total cost is only £529.99

 

[Paulg2uk]

Unlucky man. I had to nip out but someone else signed it for me, so looks like didn't need ID or anything afterall, but I've been with T-mobile before and ordered through the phone so that's probably why!

Something brilliant has just happened. The courier driver had just dropped both phones off as he lives round the corner. What a nice bloke. That's made my weekend now I was gonna collect on monday won't have to now lol

 

[Doc Evils]

Has anyones order from apple.com shopped yet?

This is disgusting other retail stores can sell stock online easily, yet apple sends all stock to the stores!

 

[Marco123]

Tried to purchase one through O2 on their refresh tariff and after talking to an agent about the transaction I finally cancelled it and decided to stick with my full price unlocked pre-order.
What a rat-**** company who really don't give a flying **** about their customers.

 

[Hustle]

It would be an absolute miracle (or getting an EE agent on a good day for you and not following procedure), part of the unlock process is doing an IMEI trace in their system and checking for the minimum 6 months in use.

Even 5 months and 29 days would see the request rejected.

I've found the best method of getting anything like this done with EE is to spam their Twitter feed publicly. If that fails, file an official complaint and keep pestering them.

Basically just cause a problem and ear ache for them.

I'm on a roaming EE plan, so it's not a huge problem. I don't see myself using another sim card soon, but I always prefer my phone to be unlocked in case I need a foreign sim card to go in it.

 

[hippyharry]

Tried to purchase one through O2 on their refresh tariff and after talking to an agent about the transaction I finally cancelled it and decided to stick with my full price unlocked pre-order.
What a rat-**** company who really don't give a flying **** about their customers.

What happened? The person i spoke to on the phone couldnt have been nicer and more helpful, explaining the entire process coming up, how I can then cancel it once I receive it etc etc.

 

[bigscotal]

Has anyones order from apple.com shopped yet?

This is disgusting other retail stores can sell stock online easily, yet apple sends all stock to the stores!

Completely agree with you here. I got my order in at 11:59pm on the 19th, and nothing happening at all so far. Disappointed doesn't even begin to cover my feelings.

Can't blame those that have looked at other routes, i.e. carphonewarehouse, and if they are willing to pay the additional £50 then that's their call, fair play. Personally, I'm not willing to do that though.

I'll just wait on my phone from Apple, rather than pay some inflated price, but the whole experience has left a real bitter taste to be honest. Instead of giving their direct Apple store customers priority, heck, even just a fair bite at the cherry, it very much feels as if we have been shoved to the side and pi$$ed all over.