Not upgrading my phone this year, but I miss the buzz of checking the UK despatch thread, so thought I would drop by to see what is happening this year. Anyway, talking from last years experience for me, it is definitely worth not giving up hope on John Lewis on Friday, if you find that they ‘sell out’ in the first few minutes, as last year, I was disappointed not to secure a phone at 8a.m, but kept checking the John Lewis site throughout the day & then randomly, late afternoon, they randomly had ‘1 in stock’ of the model of X which I wanted...added to basked, placed the order & collected in store next day