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@QVGA
Yep, I'll drink to that
And about the unlocking, ok, fair point, I don't think they should force it upon a certain network, but thats Apples choice.
What REALLY pee's me off is that theres an upgrade 'fee' for existing customers to have the iPhone, which has been bumped up to £219 PLUS the £269 for the iPhone itself!
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Posted: 2007-09-25 18:25:23
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@Daedalus85
In case it had escaped your notice in the UK and EU it is is illegal to sell a unsubsidised and locked to one Network device forcing the user to have to use only one Network they have to unlock it. I really don't want to repeat myself read the iPhone threads and you will see the answer i now have from both OFCOM confirming this and also 02 now saying they don't know about unlocking yet.
What that's just absurd just go and buy one from an Apple store for £269 although it will come with a new Sim or even get a new contract from 02 and use your free Data to send everyone a E-Mail with your new number. Also i noticed business customers can't convert their contract to an iPhone or use their current number either.
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Posted: 2007-09-25 18:29:27
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Yup, me too!
It's not exactly cheap for a locked phone is it!
@dogmann
Yes, we know but the question is, if Apple are maybe going to have to make it so that the iPhone in the UK can be multi-network but still presumably locked, why select one 'official' provider in the first place? Why not just release it like any other UK phone release?
And why make silly, scaremongering press articles like this one, which is more to the point?
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Posted: 2007-09-25 18:30:01
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It's not really O2 to blame here, they have a very tight contract with Apple from what I've been told (by the big wigs at O2, their pretty skitty at the moment), and Apple seem insistant they'll 'do as they please', give it time their ship will soon sink on that path...
As for getting it from the Apple shopping, O2 aren't STOPPING existing customer from doing the same thing, just means you'd have a new number and a second contract like you've just stated. There's no 'advantage' in any sense for getting it at the Apple shop, just alot of wasted petrol
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Posted: 2007-09-25 18:47:36
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what about Voda's special Sharp phones?
They're locked to Voda with no unlock code...
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Posted: 2007-09-25 19:40:03
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Superluminova Posts: > 500
you can always get an unlock code from vodafone, its just a matter of knowing the right people
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Posted: 2007-09-25 20:24:34
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On 2007-09-25 18:25:23, Daedalus85 wrote:
@QVGA
Yep, I'll drink to that
And about the unlocking, ok, fair point, I don't think they should force it upon a certain network, but thats Apples choice.
What REALLY pee's me off is that theres an upgrade 'fee' for existing customers to have the iPhone, which has been bumped up to £219 PLUS the £269 for the iPhone itself!
So are you saying o2 are going to allow you to keep your current tariff but you have to pay an extra 219 quid for the pleasure. I would rather do that than pay for the horrendous iPhone specific tariffs, cos lets face it they really are diabolicle!
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Posted: 2007-09-25 21:03:11
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QVGA first of all I don't agree with what you say about Apple. As an Apple Mac user nothing wrong with Apple at all. However as a mac user i for one will not be going for the iphone, due to the fact no mms and 3g. However I am tired of people putting down O2 over this whole Iphone issue. What we all seem to be missing is, that its the Manufacture i.e APPLE who have set the lock code on the iphone, not the network. Its not the network that goes and put the locks onto the handset, its an exclusive deal between Apple and O2 to launch this handset in the UK and its Apple who have dictated to O2 that the handset must be locked to the O2 network and have clearly done that by providing the phone to O2.
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Posted: 2007-09-25 21:29:08
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On 2007-09-25 21:29:08, Mr Miyagi wrote:
QVGA first of all I don't agree with what you say about Apple. As an Apple Mac user nothing wrong with Apple at all. However as a mac user i for one will not be going for the iphone, due to the fact no mms and 3g. However I am tired of people putting down O2 over this whole Iphone issue. What we all seem to be missing is, that its the Manufacture i.e APPLE who have set the lock code on the iphone, not the network. Its not the network that goes and put the locks onto the handset, its an exclusive deal between Apple and O2 to launch this handset in the UK and its Apple who have dictated to O2 that the handset must be locked to the O2 network and have clearly done that by providing the phone to O2.
don't you have it the other way around..
o2 has exclusive rights... they want the handset to be locked and exclusive to o2
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Posted: 2007-09-25 21:54:21
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the way i see it, is that apple is the one who decided to lock the handset for o2, to its network, due to giving o2 the network in the UK sole supplier of the phone to customers on its network. i may be wrong, but thats the way i see it.
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Posted: 2007-09-25 21:57:37
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