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Other UK iPhone (2018) XS/XS Max/XR Pre-Orders and Dispatch Thread
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Too right! It was like watching paint dry. So much self-righteous guff as well. Nearly 2 hours of my life lost forever!
Thanks!
Gotta love iPhone payments. Find it cheeky how its hidden on the website unless you know about it, under financing section you only get the offer of the standard 14.9% APR option.
The last two years (iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus) my process has been this and worked perfectly.
Morning of launch, lock in Trade-In value at mizuma mobile - this year was about £120 more than what was left on balance of the phone with Barclays iPhone Payments plan. Friday morning reserve phone for pickup next Friday. Walk into store, start new iPhone Payments plan, pay the £69. Swap sim over, send old phone in to mizuma, get the cash, phone Barclays and pay off old plan. £50 in my pocket and a new phone...
Thanks for that. Durability is something that I’m very keen on. Does that mean that the screen on the stainless steel model is harder and less prone to scratching, and the case less prone to dents and scratches?
Stainless steel screen significantly less prone to scratches. If you opt for SS in silver you can buff any scratches out and black SS has a special coating making it even hardier against scratches
Damn! I might pre order for delivery and try and pick one up in store as well, not sure UPS will deliver to a neighbour!
I guess I could wait an extra day for a redelivery attempt, but where's the fun in that! Also, I'll be here seeing all you guys with your new shiny toys!
I stand to be corrected, but I don't even think stores had stock of the new watches from day one.
Be interesting what EE prices will be I must admit
The 512GB note 9 is £83 a month still less than my X now and the 128GB model is £73
I’m in the ecosystem though and I love my Apple Watch. A bigger screen is worth the upgrade for me but damn these prices
I’ll definitely have to spend more then and go for SS. Nothing new there!
my 2 pence
1) no guarantee on stock, they caveat everything with 'subject to availability'. but if you manage to reserve one then you will get it regardless of time you pick it up.
2) as others have said, X cases will work fine. you 'might' find X cases still in Apple stores?
3) stainless steel series 3 was the same, only GPS and cellular
reading cases, the face of the phones are all black regardless of band and rear colour. so in my apple silicon case I only see the bottom silver edge. Otherwise you'd never know what colour phone I had!
That’s the problem. The note 9 is great value for many and has lots of features but it won’t work for me because of the ecosystem. I suppose I will have 2 months to moan about it before I give in and get it.
The only thing i like were the camera improvements.. I do take a lot of photos so the changes are welcome. All the guff they touted about the A12 bionic, machine learning and neural networks wont make any real difference for the average user.. if face id is slightly quicker i'll take that too.
Haha! I think that’s what many of us do to be honest. We just can’t help ourselves.
Getting the iphone XS 64GB £999 instead no way i'm spending another bloody over one grand for a XS MAX already have my old iPhone X 64gb
NO bloody way i'm signing up to £90 pounds all u can eat three uk contract.
NO bloody way i'm signing up to £90 pounds all u can eat three uk contract.
That’s around the time when I had to stop watching, just after they demoed the AR game. I use my iPhone as my main camera so if there are worthwhile camera improvements then it would be worth it.
Contract prices are costing more than car finance in the next few years at this rate.
I wonder if the improvement will be noticeable though. I suspect it’s pretty minor hence the reason they didn’t tout it as generation 2.
For what it’s worth I, personally, am not a great fan of Face ID. Fails so many times, it’s a bore.
I’m dubious about ordering on the Apple upgrade programme. I just feel it’ll take longer to order (more steps to complete the order) rather than ordering to buy outright.
Someone said (somewhere) that they bought outright, took it back to Apple. Got a refund then bought it back on the upgrade programme? Anyone know anything about this?
Someone said (somewhere) that they bought outright, took it back to Apple. Got a refund then bought it back on the upgrade programme? Anyone know anything about this?
pretty good for me most the times but there is a noticeable (to me at least) pause between the screen coming on and the phone unlocking. if that improves that I'll be happy.
I'm hoping there's a gen2 face ID next year which improves the angle that it works at, i.e. flat on desk at work
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that was me, did just that
AirPods surely coming next month. Missed it originally in the keynote but briefcase lady definitely used “hey siri”
You just reserve he device at your choice of store and time. There’s not many steps to it. Did it last year (albeit upgrading from 7 to 8+, not an X) and it was simple.
They are currently running a live stream and they have confirmed it 3 or 4 times and have been checking with off camera staff and still confirming dual slots,