Amnesia10 will be happy. Will be interesting to see how different their tariffs are.

Apparently over 600,000 were 'sold' yesterday from the online Apple 'sites alone.
Guardian clicky
I suppose not all of those advance orders will be picked up on the day, but I don't think Apple will struggle to beat the sales figures of the 3GS opening weekend.

Mark

I just wish O2 would pull their sodding fingers out and announce how much they're going to charge for the handsets. I've had jolly 'the iPhone 4 is coming, here's some more info you might need' emails from them every sodding work day for the last week, but the only piece of info they haven't given me is the only sodding one I want. I [LIFTED] know what a [LIFTED] SIM is you [LIFTED] [LIFTED]ers.

Enough with this tedious teaser marketing you retarded children of Nathan Barley, give me the info I want or I'll sodding well buy one somewhere else.

Jon

Wow, you're getting information from your provider?
I'm not.

I think the way this has been dealt with is ridiculous, people are crying out to sign up for new contracts and no one seems interested.

I spoke to Apple online and asked about carrier stock in their stores to which they replied, we have no information on UK carrier stock. Well that's great.

Looks like I'll be going to town next Thursday morning on an iPhone 4 hunt.

I agree entirely.

not sure what to make of this





I've asked if they're referring to the Orange tariffs.

EDIT:

Their reply

There's an O2 shop on a little retail estate not far from me that may not be too busy. May give it a go on the way to work.

Hmm, it seems like I am the only one round here who won't be getting a new iPhone.



Still at least I have had a year of 3GS smugness I will bear the relegation with good grace.

Or the people who don't have one and no urge to get one

I love their business model though, selling the phone with a 18/24 month contract and consistently having an annual upgrade cycle, just to piss off loyal customers

At least with HTC you know there would be a good phone out around the time the contract was up so there is rarely a need to cut your current contract short instead of being stuck in some sh*tty transitional phase between buying out your contract or sticking with it

Mind you, iPhone 4 demand means I might get an even better deal than the one I'm currently looking at for the HTC Desire (£25/m, 18 months, 300/unlimited/500mb, free phone). Same with an iPhone would cost me 200-300 quid and then £35-45 a month on top.

Actually, there are those of us not getting a new iPhone who simply thought it would be pointless posting just to say "I'm not buying one".

Oh wait, d'oh!

I was actually hoping to get one through work, but they're so expensive it's not an option. There's also the problem of not being able to easily run custom software on them, so I expect we're going down the Android route. Out of interest and totally off topic, does anyone know if there's an iPhone RDP app which supports TS RemoteApp? If there is, then that might solve the compatibility issue for us.

You're talking about two different organisations. Apple set the hardware upgrade schedule, the telcos set the contract span. And the number of upgrade pre-orders they're getting hardly suggests the tactic is pissing off the customers in any significant numbers.



if the contracts rate two years but the hardware upgrade schedule is every year, aren't you always going to find that when your upgrade is due there will be a two generation later piece of hardware just launched? Thats exactly the situation I'm in - I bought an iPhone 3G, skipped the 3GS because my contract wasn't up and now I can upgrade to the iPhone 4. Are you really suggesting the iPhone 4 isn't a significant hardware upgrade from the iPhone 3G? As far as I can tell, there isn't a single component in common between the two. At least with the iPhone you can be fairly certain that there won't be a better phone along virtually as soon as you've signed the contract. Like the Droid X. Do enjoy your Desire though...

You lie!

They use the same home button

I upgraded to my current phone (Sony Ericsson C905) in November 2008 on an 18month contract.

Now that my contract is up I have been able to skip the 3GS and wait for the iPhone 4.

Just like JBWFC I'll prob be on a 24 month contract and when that's up I'll be upgrading to the iPhone 6.

I can't imagine that the iPhone 5 will be as much of an upgrade step as this one is meaning the main upgrade should happen for number 6... hopefully.

I plan to get the iPhone 4, but not at launch.

My first pay packet will arrive in August, and I expect that some of it will go on the new iPhone. I'll buy it outright and get o2 to give me a micro sim for my simplicity contract unless it works out cheaper to get an 18 month contract. I don't like the thought of a 24 month contract.

My first month's pay packet in my current job would have bought about 0.3 iPhones