GoPro Hero 4

julianhj · 29 Sep 2014 at 17:20

Just announced, available from 5 October - anyone getting one?

I've had a 2 for a few years and it's been great. I've been waiting for the 4 for a while so will be snapping one up next week.

julianhj · 5 Oct 2014 at 20:25

My wife ordered one for me this morning from Currys (surely not an OCUK competitor in any way, shape or form?) - next day delivery for £4.99, due to ship tonight via DPD.

I'd pre-ordered from a specialist, but received a very apologetic call from the owner to say that the UK distributor had cut their initial allocation in half on Friday, meaning I'd missed out. Park Cameras told me pretty much the same in terms of allocation yesterday.

julianhj · 6 Oct 2014 at 16:53

Received mine this morning. Looking forward to having a play with it later on...

julianhj · 27 Oct 2014 at 09:46

SquirrelMadness said:
Anyone know why the release date on most sites is 5th November? One site says they're in stock but am afraid they might be early "unrefined" models?

Probably because Madison (the UK distributor) is expecting the next shipment several days before that, and has updated retailers with this info.

julianhj · 5 Nov 2014 at 16:45

Nexus said:
Presumably he's just based it on the fact that after they went out of stock, that was the date that started appearing on most shops stock systems. Madison is the distributor so it would have come from them.

Dates all seem to be quite different one sites now, so things have obviously changed. I said before the launch that the same thing happened with the Hero3 Black.... it went out of stock immediately and then there were limited numbers supplied until January of the following year.

No. I was told by two different suppliers that I'd put orders in with that they'd received an email from Madison saying their initial stock allocation had been halved, and that the next shipment was due in on 31st October. I don't recall all the details (it was a month ago), but one of the retailers called me to apologise after I'd placed the order - he'd received the email on the Friday before the launch date. He provided me with more info than I'd expected as he's a very helpful chap who I'd made contact with via a different forum. He currently has stock available for immediate delivery, according to a promo email I received yesterday.