US phone in UK

[danielowenuk]

Long story short, my contract is up, will be having a 6s 64GB.

Friend of mine in the US is coming over 29th of this month. He rather innocently asked "Anything you want bringing over".

Current US price is $749 or £491 uk price is £619

So £128 saving.

Obviously warranty would be out of the question, and not 100% sure if I can register the device on my dev account although guessing that wouldn't be an issue.

Opinions?

 

[nickchallis92]

Ask him to bring over some cinnamon melts from Mcdonalds. They don't do them here in the UK

 

[MattXDA]

Surely he won't be able to get one because it won't be in stock?

 

[GRANTCKING]

why would warranty be out of he question? I thought u got a years warranty regardless of where it was purchased?

 

[alperduran217]

why would warranty be out of he question? I thought u got a years warranty regardless of where it was purchased?

Unfortunately not. Apple's One year warranty only available on the continent you buy.

 

[Blujelly]

Unfortunately not. Apple's One year warranty only available on the continent you buy.

I wouldn't be so sure on that, my mate bought 2 apple watches (one for him and me) from the US, he went into apple store (UK) a few weeks ago, having a few issue's with his AW they replaced it straight away.

 

[alperduran217]

I wouldn't be so sure on that, my mate bought 2 apple watches (one for him and me) from the US, he went into apple store (UK) a few weeks ago, having a few issue's with his AW they replaced it straight away.

I'm sorry i didn't mention that only iPhone has this regulation. Because of the antenna's differences Apple does not support One year warranty on the another continent. But other devices has One Year Warranty.

 

[$tevejob$]

it wont work on all the UK LTE bands, plus where is he going to find one in stock in the next 7 days?

 

[danielowenuk]

I appreciate that the logistics could be troublesome, and I would only ask him to grab one if any stock were available.

Presumably the Sprint version will work with all Global LTE bands?

 

[jercdevil]

Sprint would be carrier locked. Only Verizon is unlocked.