Other UK iPhone (2018) XS/XS Max/XR Pre-Orders and Dispatch Thread

[AVBeatMan]

I think this answers the question I raised earlier today on here. Thanks to JinJin for doing some digging as well.
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Pretty sure you have to ring them and request it (or possibly email, in my experience they’re pretty good on responding).
I’ve had reasonable experiences with envirofone although they did rip me a bit with a 6 Plus I sold to them.

It's just a matter of timing. If all goes to plan and I can get a new iPhone XS Plus for delivery/pick up on 21.09 then I don't mind posting my current X a couple of days before. A 7 day extension would make things easier. I did try and buy a iPhone 6 last night on eBay for £150 but didn't win. Hard to know what to do...

 

[Jinjin]

It's just a matter of timing. If all goes to plan and I can get a new iPhone XS Plus for delivery/pick up on 21.09 then I don't mind posting my current X a couple of days before. A 7 day extension would make things easier. I did try and buy a iPhone 6 last night on eBay for £150 but didn't win. Hard to know what to do...

Envirofone still seem to offer £635 for the X 256 today. If that’s guaranteed for 14 days (25th) you could have a new phone on the 21st, next day ship the old phone for them to get for Monday 24th all going to plan that is

 

[blaugrana69]

Envirofone has dropped to £625 in the last couple of hours. Was £635 earlier when I locked in my price, not even sure I’m upgrading to be honest but just incase. In addition I’ve had no “bites” where I’ve had my 256GB X advertised for sometime. It’s this kind of scenario that perks my interest in joining the iUP this time - seems less hassle ?

 

[gadget.guy]

As I mentioned before, they give you an extension to the 14 days but I'm not sure if you have to request it or not?

I've used them before but not for afew years they email you closer to the deadline to the say would you like an extension you have to sign into the account and accept it for it to be honoured.

I wonder how much it will go down once its announced tomorrow i'd say probably 10% or more its already gone down 2% from the weekend.

 

[apolloa]

9to5mac are claiming the new phones will not come with fast chargers, so you’ll still need to buy those if you want one and include that in the very high price.. I’ve not own of any other phone costing so much without a fast charger?

 

[gadget.guy]

Envirofone has dropped to £625 in the last couple of hours. Was £635 earlier when I locked in my price, not even sure I’m upgrading to be honest but just incase. In addition I’ve had no “bites” where I’ve had my 256GB X advertised for sometime. It’s this kind of scenario that perks my interest in joining the iUP this time - seems less hassle ?

wow yes your right i did mine around 5ish and its already down by a tenner

 

[blaugrana69]

I've used them before but not for afew years they email you closer to the deadline to the say would you like an extension you have to sign into the account and accept it for it to be honoured.

I wonder how much it will go down once its announced tomorrow i'd say probably 10% or more its already gone down 2% from the weekend.

From recollection a 10% drop or so is the general ball park immediately post Keynote, so dont think you’re too far off with that.

 

[gadget.guy]

It looks like its going to be an expensive few months new iphone new pixel 3 xl new apple watch new lenova smart dispay to name afew

i love this time of year but my wallet hates it lol

 

[Jinjin]

9to5mac are claiming the new phones will not come with fast chargers, so you’ll still need to buy those if you want one and include that in the very high price.. I’ve not own of any other phone costing so much without a fast charger?

Yup, pretty miffed that this one rumour did not come out (so far to be true). A usb c 18w charger out the box would have been great

 

[JamesHP]

Yup, pretty miffed that this one rumour did not come out (so far to be true). A usb c 18w charger out the box would have been great

I am as well to be honest. I'm lucky to have a 2017 MBP13 Touch Bar so I bought the USB-C to Lightning cable for it, use it for charging my phone quite a lot but I'll be damned if I'm taking my MacBook charger out with me on the go. Would've liked fast charging to go everywhere!

 

[The Game 161]

Yup, pretty miffed that this one rumour did not come out (so far to be true). A usb c 18w charger out the box would have been great

There’s still hope lol

 

[Jinjin]

Interesting reading tonight from Guilherme Rambo on how he got a hold of the leaked iPhone Xs and Apple watch images. Images from an unpublished page from a special events recap page, similar to https://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2017/ last year. He’s guessed some url patterns and got a hold of some of the content for tomorrow.

The importance of what he’s said is that he only found iPhone and watch images, nothing for iPad pros, AirPower, AirPods or anything else. So there may only iPhone and watch tomorrow

https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1039604702697144322?s=21

I’m really keen on AirPower and new AirPods!!

 

[The Game 161]

Interesting reading tonight from Guilherme Rambo on how he got a hold of the leaked iPhone Xs and Apple watch images. Images from an unpublished page from a special events recap page, similar to https://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2017/ last year. He’s guessed some url patterns and got a hold of some of the content for tomorrow.

The importance of what he’s said is that he only found iPhone and watch images, nothing for iPad pros, AirPower, AirPods or anything else. So there may only iPhone and watch tomorrow

https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1039604702697144322?s=21

I’m really keen on AirPower and new AirPods!!

Apple would get killed if air power isn’t announced tomorrow

 

[Jinjin]

Apple would get killed if air power isn’t announced tomorrow

You’d think 1 year on!

Likely to be an ‘ipad’ event not too far in the future.. Hoping these don’t get push back till then

 

[Jinjin]

The spoiler free article link has been posted:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/11/september-2018-spoiler-free/

I’m not able to watch the announcement till the kids (and missus) are tucked up in bed so I’ll be on radio silence from 5.59pm with all notifications off and avoiding social media, the news, messages, email and tv

This thread will be pretty lively tomorrow evening so it’s going to take me a while to read through it all too! 1 more sleep....

 

[apolloa]

Yup, pretty miffed that this one rumour did not come out (so far to be true). A usb c 18w charger out the box would have been great

For what could be a £1200 price or even for £999 it’s downright disgusting profiteering mate! No other excuse for it. One Plus stuff tons of tech in their price and still make a profit... don’t forget they are also expected to ditch the headphone adapter too from the box.
Still let’s see what they really do tomorrow.

 

[numberfour]

The big day is finally here!

 

[johnyslats]

Happy Keynote day everyone!

 

[Mikey86uk]

Finally get to find out how skint I will be after tonight! Yay!

 

[Dave245]

Interesting reading tonight from Guilherme Rambo on how he got a hold of the leaked iPhone Xs and Apple watch images. Images from an unpublished page from a special events recap page, similar to https://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2017/ last year. He’s guessed some url patterns and got a hold of some of the content for tomorrow.

The importance of what he’s said is that he only found iPhone and watch images, nothing for iPad pros, AirPower, AirPods or anything else. So there may only iPhone and watch tomorrow

https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1039604702697144322?s=21

I’m really keen on AirPower and new AirPods!!

Yea but he also said Apple shut it down after the 9to5 Mac articles were written, my guess is Apple realised what had happened and managed to stop it before anything else got leaked.

At the very least I expect to see:

Apple Watch Series 4 (it looks great)
iPhones
AirPower release date
Airpod charging case

Not sure if we will also get some new AirPods as well, personally if prefer to buy an updated version of the AirPods with the wireless charging case than I would just buying the wireless case on its own.

 

[Jinjin]

Yea but he also said Apple shut it down after the 9to5 Mac articles were written, my guess is Apple realised what had happened and managed to stop it before anything else got leaked.

At the very least I expect to see:

Apple Watch Series 4 (it looks great)
iPhones
AirPower release date
Airpod charging case

Not sure if we will also get some new AirPods as well, personally if prefer to buy an updated version of the AirPods with the wireless charging case than I would just buying the wireless case on its own.

They would have grabbed as much as they could have found prior to going public with it knowing Apple would close it down ASAP. He found those images through obvious names they used for these ‘hero’ images. There could have been other hosted but he not knowing the publish url for it... well that’s my wish?

That’s my shopping list for Friday! Not an AirPods owner so don’t want to stump up for the pods and a case, hoping to see some form of bundle.

 

[hallso144]

This is my first year in the iPhone Upgrade program. eligible to upgrade now. Can I expect an email from apple in the coming days so I can pre-order one and hopefully be one of the first to get my hands on one?

 

[Dino F]

....ITS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The spoiler free article link has been posted:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/11/september-2018-spoiler-free/

I’m not able to watch the announcement till the kids (and missus) are tucked up in bed so I’ll be on radio silence from 5.59pm with all notifications off and avoiding social media, the news, messages, email and tv

This thread will be pretty lively tomorrow evening so it’s going to take me a while to read through it all too! 1 more sleep....

....I'm leaving the office at 5pm sharp, which gives me an hour to get home and get in front of my iPad Air 2 ready for the Keynote at 6pm!

My missus said the other night that one of our boys had a parents evening thing at school tonight, I was like - .....NO, I'm watching the Apple Keynote tonight, you'll have to go on your own!!! #Priorities

Finally get to find out how skint I will be after tonight! Yay!

....yea, me too!!! They really should hold these keynotes at the end of the month after payday!!!!

...and even more leaks today on the MR front page about the colours of the sim card trays - is there nothing we DON'T know now about the new phones?!!!

 

[johnyslats]

Not sure if we will also get some new AirPods as well, personally if prefer to buy an updated version of the AirPods with the wireless charging case than I would just buying the wireless case on its own.

This. My Airpods are now at approx 60% to 70% of original capacity (had them since launch). Might just wait until next year to pick up AirPods 2.0 (if we’re not getting a fully fledged update this time around)

 

[Dave245]

This. My Airpods are now at approx 60% to 70% of original capacity (had them since launch). Might just wait until next year to pick up AirPods 2.0 (if we’re not getting a fully fledged update this time around)

My plan is IF they announce new Airpods (rumoured to have "Hey Siri") then i will get these to tide me over until next years version 2, i use my AirPods every day they are one of the best things Apple have made. I have had mine since they first came out in 2016, straight out of the case they instantly drop down to 99-98% before i even put them in my ear, BUT to be fair i use mine every day throughout the day.