Iphone 5

[pipston]

I was gonna go down to Regent Street/Covent Garden on Friday at around 6am and queue up for their 8am opening. anyone done this before? im a bit scared of the queue going all the way to brixton 

[MAT ED30]

thats what i normally do but this time i thought sod it as looking at pre order online most have sold out   i know pre order with 02 and apple both say sold out 3 weeks wait

[pipston]

thats what i normally do but this time i thought sod it as looking at pre order online most have sold out  i know pre order with 02 and both say sold out 3 weeks wait

What have your experiences been of it in the past? is two hours before early enough or are all the real apple geeks camping overnight?

[MAT ED30]

that depends on the how big the store is or the town/city you live in as the que could be huge and depending how much stock they get it might be best to make a phone call to you store to check if they know how many they are getting in stock and colours and gig so it gives you some kind of idea what your dealing with

[jedi-knight83]

thats what i normally do but this time i thought sod it as looking at pre order online most have sold out  i know pre order with 02 and both say sold out 3 weeks wait

What have your experiences been of it in the past? is two hours before early enough or are all the real apple geeks camping overnight?

I went for the iphone 4 release to the apple store in cambridge. I was there at 6:30 am and there was already a big queue and would have had to wait hours! luckily for the iphone4 they allowed you to pre order from the website but then collect in store and so there was a VIP line for those that had pre ordered and it seemed people had missed that trick so where i would have been about 30th-50th approx in the normal queue I was able to go into the VIP queue and was number 4 :)

Unfortunately they got rid of this option for the 4s and 5 and the pre order is only for delivery.

[Tamiyoman]

I am not bothering getting one until December, hopefully that way all the die hard fanboys and campers will have theirs and I can just walk in the shop and buy one  

[Deako]

I am not bothering getting one until December, hopefully that way all the die hard fanboys and campers will have theirs and I can just walk in the shop and buy one  

Mine was easier than that. I ordered it at 8am last Friday and it will be delivered into my hands this coming Friday! ;) No hassle, no visiting the shops.

[MAT ED30]

I am not bothering getting one until December, hopefully that way all the die hard fanboys and campers will have theirs and I can just walk in the shop and buy one  

Mine was easier than that. I ordered it at 8am last Friday and it will be delivered into my hands this coming Friday! ;) No hassle, no visiting the shops.

me too even had a phone call and email from 3 to confirm my order

[jedi-knight83]

O2 redeemed themselves today.

I rung them lasst friday just after I'd ordered my iphones and asked them about the nano sim. The guy I spoke to took my details and said he would get back to me. I'd since then called them twice asking about the sims and not had much luck. I'd all but decided to leave and then this morning I got an email from the guy I spoke to on friday and he has sent me 2 nano sims today (had the official O2 order email too)

He also informed me of the new contract they are doing which is cheaper than my current deal so I'm moving onto that as well.

"On&On" £20 per month for sim only 12 month contract. Unlimited minutes, Unlimited txts, 1gb data allowance.

Roll on Friday now :)

[skard]

Do you know if that On&On tariff lets you use minutes abroad with a 50p connection fee & £1.99 data charges per day, as recently implemented?

My contract's up next week so thinking about buying a phone outright then going SIM only.

[jedi-knight83]

Do you know if that On&On tariff lets you use minutes abroad with a 50p connection fee & £1.99 data charges per day, as recently implemented?

My contract's up next week so thinking about buying a phone outright then going SIM only.

oh really.. thats pretty good tbh. much better than how expensive it used to be to use the phone abroad

[jedi-knight83]

As promised my Nano sims arrived this morning.



Also swapped my contract over to the new on&on tariff.

All ready for friday now.

[andrewparker]

All ready for friday now.

Not worried it might be a bit of an anticlimax?

[jedi-knight83]

All ready for friday now.

Not worried it might be a bit of an anticlimax?

Ha dont get me wrong.. im not an apple fan boy.. Im often the first to point out their flaws among my friends...

But I'm going from the 4 to the 5 so the camera is vastly improved and the processor is much faster so it will be a good upgrade and my girlfriend is going from a 3gs to the 5 so that will be an even bigger upgrade and I got it as a present for her so just looking forward to getting it and giving it to her really.

I'm under no illusion that its a ground breaking phone that will change the world lol.

But its new and shiny and I get to unwrap it and thats always fun no matter what it is 

[andrewparker]

All ready for friday now.

Not worried it might be a bit of an anticlimax?

Ha dont get me wrong.. im not an apple fan boy.. Im often the first to point out their flaws among my friends...

But I'm going from the 4 to the 5 so the camera is vastly improved and the processor is much faster so it will be a good upgrade and my girlfriend is going from a 3gs to the 5 so that will be an even bigger upgrade and I got it as a present for her so just looking forward to getting it and giving it to her really.

I'm under no illusion that its a ground breaking phone that will change the world lol.

But its new and shiny and I get to unwrap it and thats always fun no matter what it is 

Yeah, for me the improvements to the camera was the best thing about going from 4 to 4S. It really is a very good camera.

I was just reading about the new features in iOS6 and I really don't see anything that excites me apart from iCloud Tabs.