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UK iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Thread

David87 said:
My 64GB Space Grey iPhone 6 is currently with UPS at Stansted Airport, with it coming via Dubai and Germany. It seems the flight arrived at Stansted too late for the parcels to be distributed to their respective delivery depots for delivery today, but I'm 100% certain that delivery will be tomorrow. Seems like excellent service to me!

I also ordered a 64GB Gold iPhone 6 at the same time (for my wife) and, oddly, this was dispatched on the same day, but with TNT. The tracking on that says it's currently in Holland. I reckon it'll turn up on Wednesday.
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Hi, mine is also being delivered by TNT yet I've no status updates at all telling me where it is! Did your wives leave pudong at some point over the weekend? I ordered online last year for the 5s and posted here then too but that came with UPS!
 
d123 said:
Not quite how it is, EE and Three share virtually all of the 3G infrastructure, this is via the MBNL network share agreement.

EE has more coverage due to the fact the network share doesn't include Orange masts not yet upgraded and brought into MBNL and also the legacy 2G network that is yet to be upgraded belonging to both T-Mobile and Orange.

The EE 4G network is also a seperate network from the EE 3G network, and also outside the share agreement.

Also, to say Three don't have coverage outside of towns is totally incorrect.
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Orange being part of EE would mean that 3UK don't use all their masts as I briefly stated so therefore doesn't have that great a connection. I also stated that they don't have a "great" signal outside of town "not" no coverage. If you look at the Three coverage map on their website and look at the UK as a whole you'll see this.

It's so annoying that people have to knock down other people's comments on here when we are just here for advice and guidance. I am just giving my option on the matter and "not" stating 100% facts from wikipedia, ofcom and apple, just my personal experience in the matter, which is what most people on here are looking. If we wanted slagging off or just to talk rubbish we'd be on a Forum for the Daily Sport newspaper. Sorry but it just makes me 😡 when people just use this website to wrong other peoples personal opinions!!! :apple:
 
Anyone else got TNT

28 Sep 2014 11:40:48 Arnhem Hub Shipment In Transit.
27 Sep 2014 15:21:35 Arnhem Hub Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 22:37:52 Pudong International Airport Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 20:42:53 Pudong International Airport Shipment Received At Tnt Location
26 Sep 2014 20:38:00 Shanghai Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 19:17:52 Shanghai Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 17:13:44 Shanghai Pudong Depot Shipment Collected From Customer
 
SueG said:
Anyone else got TNT

28 Sep 2014 11:40:48 Arnhem Hub Shipment In Transit.
27 Sep 2014 15:21:35 Arnhem Hub Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 22:37:52 Pudong International Airport Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 20:42:53 Pudong International Airport Shipment Received At Tnt Location
26 Sep 2014 20:38:00 Shanghai Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 19:17:52 Shanghai Shipment In Transit.
26 Sep 2014 17:13:44 Shanghai Pudong Depot Shipment Collected From Customer
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My daughter has the same but is now showing as being in Germany.
 
cperchard said:
Mine bought direct from apple says A1524 on the back if that's any help
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Yep, I thought so. But this guy on ebay claiming to sell a local (non import) 6 Plus says its A1522. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-New...92321?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item33960a57c1

But the Apple website contradicts his claim, stating all UK based or international based iPhone 6 Plus for that matter are A1524. https://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

This is obviously important because of the extra LTE band support in the international models (A1524).
 
atki81 said:
Orange being part of EE would mean that 3UK don't use all their masts as I briefly stated so therefore doesn't have that great a connection. I also stated that they don't have a "great" signal outside of town "not" no coverage. If you look at the Three coverage map on their website and look at the UK as a whole you'll see this.

It's so annoying that people have to knock down other people's comments on here when we are just here for advice and guidance. I am just giving my option on the matter and "not" stating 100% facts from wikipedia, ofcom and apple, just my personal experience in the matter, which is what most people on here are looking. If we wanted slagging off or just to talk rubbish we'd be on a Forum for the Daily Sport newspaper. Sorry but it just makes me 😡 when people just use this website to wrong other peoples personal opinions!!! :apple:
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I was trying to be polite, let's be a little more direct, most of your last post was complete nonsense and of no bearing to anyone not living in your house or on your street. Let me answer your last post a little more directly.

atki81 said:
Three UK don't have a good signal anywhere other than in towns.
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Nonsense, Three have good to excellent coverage in many areas outside if towns. All networks have areas of bad coverage.

atki81 said:
They don't share all mast with EE just a few selected ones.
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Nonsense, they share all 3G masts that EE own (somewhere between 12000 and 14000 masts).

atki81 said:
I live in the countryside and find EE is the best signal up and down the country (I live in the Midlands, my other halfs family is in Devon and mines in the North West and N Ireland) so we travel about the UK a lot. We have no network signal at home with any network, but EE gave us a signal booster so always connected with them. Hope this helps but I've tried Three, O2 and Vodafone and have hated them all, except O2 has a great signal in the north west.
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Again nonsense, it's well accepted by anyone in the industry that from a pure signal point of view, neither EE nor Three can compete with the legacy 900MHz networks of Vodafone and o2. That's the reason why most government departments, the police and the British Army still have mobiles on one of the two old networks.

For a 3G signal, EE and Three are pretty good, EE can seem better because it will fall back onto 1800Mhz 2G signal in places of no 3G, but for all the use EDGE is you may as well just be on O2 if plain calls/texts are what you equate to "good signal".

EE had a large head start with regard to 4G roll out, so it currently has a large lead from a 4G point of view (but even they are largely urban when looking at 4G coverage). It is reasonably pointless to compare 4G when all the networks are rolling out new sites on a daily basis and what has poor coverage today could be good coverage tomorrow, 4G will also see significant improvement in the near future with both EE and Three in the process of bringing 800MHz spectrum on line.
 
lisa232004 said:
Hi, mine is also being delivered by TNT yet I've no status updates at all telling me where it is! Did your wives leave pudong at some point over the weekend? I ordered online last year for the 5s and posted here then too but that came with UPS!
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Yes, the tracking says it departed Pudong at 00:30 on the 28th. The latest update was just now (13:09), where it has left Arnhem. Destination? Presumably TNT's UK hub, although I'm not sure where that is.
 
d123 said:
I was trying to be polite, let's be a little more direct, most of your last post was complete nonsense and of no bearing to anyone not living in your house or on your street. Let me answer your last post a little more directly.



Nonsense, Three have good to excellent coverage in many areas outside if towns. All networks have areas of bad coverage.



Nonsense, they share all 3G masts that EE own (somewhere between 12000 and 14000 masts).



Again nonsense, it's well accepted by anyone in the industry that from a pure signal point of view, neither EE nor Three can compete with the legacy 900MHz networks of Vodafone and o2. That's the reason why most government departments, the police and the British Army still have mobiles on one of the two old networks.

For a 3G signal, EE and Three are pretty good, EE can seem better because it will fall back onto 1800Mhz 2G signal in places of no 3G, but for all the use EDGE is you may as well just be on O2 if plain calls/texts are what you equate to "good signal".

EE had a large head start with regard to 4G roll out, so it currently has a large lead from a 4G point of view (but even they are largely urban when looking at 4G coverage). It is reasonably pointless to compare 4G when all the networks are rolling out new sites on a daily basis and what has poor coverage today could be good coverage tomorrow, 4G will also see significant improvement in the near future with both EE and Three in the process of bringing 800MHz spectrum on line.
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Once again I am giving only MY PERSONAL OPINION not the inside technological workings of the UK mobile phone system. This was just MY experience from using different networks across the UK over the last 20+ years 😕
 
Back to the dark side 🙂 iPhone 6 SG 64GB ordered!

How accurate are people finding the dispatch times? Says 7-10 business days at the moment. But if by some miracle it comes sooner I shan't be complaining.
 
Just recieved my replacement phone.
(Tested screen no dust under the screen)
(White no yellow)
(No Dead/Stuck Pixels tested with Dead Spotter App)
 
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