Just because they were manufactured in August doesn't necessarily mean they were boxed up and ready to go in August. They could have just been lying around waiting a couple of weeks for the final iOS 9 build and then imaged and packaged.
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UK iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Thread
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Anyone live in or around Gloucester? It must be the only City in the UK with no Apple Store and it drives me nuts! Have to drive all the way to Bristol
Nope, but it's not the only one. I live in Nottingham and that doesn't have an Apple store either.
I had a nightmare with them repairs wise. Took a MacBook Pro in and it went away for 21 days and had a different fault when they gave it to me, so it went away again and came back with a fault with the Logic board (this was replaced on the first repair). They also claimed to have replaced the WiFi card which can't be true as the MAC address hadn't changed. In the end Apple refunded me for the MacBook Pro as it had gone 35 days and was still not fixed.
I'd rather take a train to Sheffield or Leicester to sort a repair now rather than take a 15 min journey to them.
I've been thinking the same thing. How do they install iOS 9 on that many devices. It's crazy if you think about it. I think they would have had a solid build of iOS 9 installed on them for the past couple weeks. Guessing if they have noticed any major bugs they will just quickly push out iOS 9.0.1
Well, I know, that is not a base for comparison, but I visited a samsung factory a couple of years ago, and their assembly line is end-to-end, so all the phones came out fully boxed and sealed.
It can be a pain to handle unboxed handsets and upload the firmware in the second step instead of a much faster one stop shop way.
I would of thought theyre built, they're flashed, then they're boxed. Im not sure where they would keep them if they weren't boxed? and what would stop them being damaged?
Mines showing now 6S 64GB Silver - Whats the whole "Maybe Refurbished" all about?
Production week : -35- (September)
Production year : -2015-
Model introduced: --
Memory - number of slots: Please tell us how many memory (RAM) slots this machine has.
Factory: C7 (Pentragon, Changhai, China. Maybe Refurbished?)
Production week : -35- (September)
Production year : -2015-
Model introduced: --
Memory - number of slots: Please tell us how many memory (RAM) slots this machine has.
Factory: C7 (Pentragon, Changhai, China. Maybe Refurbished?)
Same here week 35 iPhone 6s 128gb space grey
Factory C7 Mines says maybe refurbished too.
perhaps thats the factory that deals with apples refurbishment products? obviously yours won't be.
Have you changed your region to US for the news app? I found this happens when you do that. If you change our region back it will be fine. Give it a go
Production week : -35- (September)
Production year : -2015-
Model introduced: --
Memory - number of slots: Please tell us how many memory (RAM) slots this machine has.
Factory: C3 (China (Foxxcon, Shenzhen factory))
Production year : -2015-
Model introduced: --
Memory - number of slots: Please tell us how many memory (RAM) slots this machine has.
Factory: C3 (China (Foxxcon, Shenzhen factory))
My phone has not been allowcated yet, Maybe because I techically ordered on 13/9 for my Gold 64gb 6s after switching my order from the plus I made on the morning of 12/9 but I could expect a similar result to yours. I can only know when it does show up on my account.
Anyone live in or around Gloucester? It must be the only City in the UK with no Apple Store and it drives me nuts! Have to drive all the way to Bristol
Live in Hereford. We have a partner store but not the same. Nearest I think is Birmingham.
What gets me is we have a shop for every network and none bat Three have any advertising for the new iPhone and they only put it up this week! And I am still getting emails about pre-ordering still available from them.
It is rather a pathetic launch. But HTC and Galaxy phones have lots of coverage. I can only think that is profit margins on sales and those phones need the hadder sell.
I have been talking lately with a sales assistant at Carphone Warehouse who is going away for training on the 6S ahead of the release and he told me that last year they had around 45 thousand pre-orders and did not have enough stock on launch day the phones sell themselves. Where as the Nokia / Wi dows phones need like £150 cash back to sell at all.
All I know is the more I see tariffs and lack of interest from retailers the more I am glad I ordered direct.
It is why I hate going in our one as it is so awkward. I am same anywhere hate being the only one in a shop.
I'm in the vicinity too; it's usually Bristol or Cardiff for me.
I've got a preparing to ship update on my 6s Plus but no sign of a phone in my support profile yet and the blurb says 'Delivery: 25/9 in most areas by Standard Shipping' which is a tad vague for my tastes!
I had two show up about Wednesday the other I ordered 10 mins after the others went to posted status yesterday. I aint bothered for 99p As long as they arrived before the phone.
Pre-order may be beyond cancel now so will be a return but I would say try the store on launch. There is so little advertising I cantsee there being many at stores on launch day and I always remember Vodafone get the least que of all.