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No iPhone 5S Pre-Order

Blazin23 said:
But.. £700+ ? They depreciate so much! It will be worth less than half that in a year. When the next one comes out :(


EDIT: Just realised there is no 128GB model LOL
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sorry I meant 64gb doh! just ordered a 128gb ssd and typed it in wrong

Apple products hold their value better than most electronics. You could say the same thing about a graphics card.
I use my phone far more than any graphics card
 
So can I que at a o2 store and get the 5s on Friday the 20th or not gents??

Or am I queing just for a pre order so confused this year lol!!!!!
 
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MagicBoy said:
I can't imagine there will be massive queues around the block for a £709 phone!
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Usually the majority buy the 32GB, although the store will typically have less 64GB / top models. I personally find it easier to buy the phone upfront and pay less per month on awful contracts.
 
EVH said:
Usually the majority buy the 32GB, although the store will typically have less 64GB / top models. I personally find it easier to buy the phone upfront and pay less per month on awful contracts.
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Last year, according to the store when I bought my 5 (ie. don't take their word for it), they apparently had mostly sold 64GB models and had more 32GB models in stock than any other. Could have been that store alone, could have been a plain old lie, but the 32GB will be the most popular.
 
EVH said:
Usually the majority buy the 32GB, although the store will typically have less 64GB / top models. I personally find it easier to buy the phone upfront and pay less per month on awful contracts.
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Having filled a 20GB iPod, I went for a 32GB iPhone 4, and that's now bursting at the seams. Would have to be a minimum 64GB for me.

The 5S is a nice bit of kit but I won't be blowing £200 + £35 a month on a contract/£700 upfront on one. My iPhone 4 works just as well if not better as it ever did and it's all paid off and unlocked on a £12 SIM only contract with unlimited data.
 
MagicBoy said:
Having filled a 20GB iPod, I went for a 32GB iPhone 4, and that's now bursting at the seams. Would have to be a minimum 64GB for me.

The 5S is a nice bit of kit but I won't be blowing £200 + £35 a month on a contract/£700 upfront on one. My iPhone 4 works just as well if not better as it ever did and it's all paid off and unlocked on a £12 SIM only contract with unlimited data.
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If the Nexus 5 doesn't fit my needs ill also pick up 1 sim free. I think the price will be higher then £35, that seems to the lowest price for the 5c at the moment, and it averages around £41.

This year it seems like going Sim free will lead to big savings.
 
£41. Christ. I guess they'll force you onto a (super fast) 4G contract with a comedy data cap also.

Oh and if it's EE, bet on regular "inflation" price increases.
 
Currently have a 4S thats reaching 2 years old. Didnt see the need to move up to the 5, and still uncertain about the 5S.

I have a £10 rolling contract with giff gaff, which is enough for my needs. I dont want to be locked down to anything right now.

If i go for it, I would buy this again sim free. Cost would work out as follows:-

A) Sell my 4S for around £190
B) Purchase iphone on a 12 month 0% purchases card for £549

Overall cost to upgrade is £359 - so an extra £30 a month(paying off over 12 months)

Only thing with my 4S now is the battery life is starting to lag and it is 2 years old. On the other hand there are decent offers knocking about for battery cases under the £20 mark.

So, upgrade now for a cost of £359, or wait and see what comes around next year?

Verging on the wait and see point if I am honest. I am slightly dissapointed in their changes - they say its the first 64bit phone with the power of a desktop - yet you cant connect it to a monitor/tv/keyboard/mouse and use it as a desktop so is it really?

That to me would be the next major milestone. It could sort of work from IOS when on its own, or if Apple built up its icloud services, could potentially work as a client for cloud computing and give you the power of macosx through cloud computing.

To me that is the evolutionary next step - the only issue is they start to shoot themselves in the foot in terms of desktop/laptops computing, however there will always be a need to have that level of power on the go.
 
DireEmblem said:
Currently have a 4S thats reaching 2 years old. Didnt see the need to move up to the 5, and still uncertain about the 5S.

I have a £10 rolling contract with giff gaff, which is enough for my needs. I dont want to be locked down to anything right now.

If i go for it, I would buy this again sim free. Cost would work out as follows:-

A) Sell my 4S for around £190
B) Purchase iphone on a 12 month 0% purchases card for £549

Overall cost to upgrade is £359 - so an extra £30 a month(paying off over 12 months)

Only thing with my 4S now is the battery life is starting to lag and it is 2 years old. On the other hand there are decent offers knocking about for battery cases under the £20 mark.

So, upgrade now for a cost of £359, or wait and see what comes around next year?

Verging on the wait and see point if I am honest. I am slightly dissapointed in their changes - they say its the first 64bit phone with the power of a desktop - yet you cant connect it to a monitor/tv/keyboard/mouse and use it as a desktop so is it really?

That to me would be the next major milestone. It could sort of work from IOS when on its own, or if Apple built up its icloud services, could potentially work as a client for cloud computing and give you the power of macosx through cloud computing.

To me that is the evolutionary next step - the only issue is they start to shoot themselves in the foot in terms of desktop/laptops computing, however there will always be a need to have that level of power on the go.
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They advertise the 64bit architecture as "desktop class", so you're mistaken in thinking they've advertised it as a phone with the power of a desktop. A this point it's willy waving, as only the stock apps will be optimised to take advantage of it.

That said, the phone is probably more powerful than my work machine! Also, you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard to the phone, or iPad if you are serious about typing :cool:
 
Barks said:
I queued up outside O2 once the day the iPhone 4 came out and felt like such a loser I swore I would never do it again.

The only good thing to come out of it was when someone pulled up, beeped their horn and showed us their boxed iPhone out the window then put their finger up and drove off. Couldn't stop laughing.

If you want one why not just order it online on the 20th. Is it really that important to have it on the day of release? Or is that concept apocalyptic to some?
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Yep, a lot of us are scarred for life from the Iphone 4 launch day.

Never again.

Pre-order for delivery, do not queue without a confirmed order for pick-up!

Do not believe anything you are told regarding stock levels, I can gurantee from past experiences with all IPhone launches since the 3G model, that the websites will say 'out of stock' however, if you phone and order one you will have one in days. This classic sales tactic is wears thin after while tbh, they will have a million of the little blighters already in some warehouse in Essex, just waiting for day 2 after launch weekend. If they don't run out on day 1 and have queues around the corner, the launch will be deemed a failure.

I am moving over to Sony and their Z1 from a 4S, the 5S looks like a great phone but Apples pricing policy for the 64GB Iphone 5S makes small children cry.

I will be moving over from O2 & EE onto Three's £18/mo all you can eat plan, I will switch off my EE subscription once three's 4G service is live. Am currently enjoying the EE service but 4G speed capped at 5GB per month is a receipe for disaster and my costs are currently £80-£90/mo.
 
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Back when the iPhone was leagues above any android phone,there was nothing else like it on the planet, and each iteration was an extremely noticeable jump in smoothness from the previous I could MAYBE see the point in queuing.

But now since the s3 onwards and no real improvements made to the iPhone since the 4, all phones released in the last year all feel pretty much same in smoothness and usability sans the iPhone small sucky screen.
 
db2431 said:
Back when the iPhone was leagues above any android phone,there was nothing else like it on the planet, and each iteration was an extremely noticeable jump in smoothness from the previous I could MAYBE see the point in queuing.

But now since the s3 onwards and no real improvements made to the iPhone since the 4, all phones released in the last year all feel pretty much same in smoothness and usability sans the iPhone small sucky screen.
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Every version has been an improvement, it's just that touchscreen smartphones have become so ubiquitous and similar that we take improvements for granted and don't see them as a big deal any more. That's not Apple's fault - they created this market and now everyone's caught up because there's only so much you can do with a touch screen phone. Tablets were a logical progression of this, and once again are now in the same situation, although Apple still stand above the rest when it comes to tablet optimised stuff/content/apps. I don't think we'll see anything majorly interesting with any new iPads or Android tablets in years to come.

As someone said in this or another thread, what Apple have to, and probably will do, is enter another market that hasn't been explored/pulled-off successfully, they'll have a few years on the competition, then eventually the competition catches up and everyone takes it all for granted again. It's become their thing, really. I suppose the question is if their design team can keep churning out game-changers - expectation is consistently ultra-high by the internets crowd.

We're at the point with phones and tablets where it's like the Macs - it's premium price, it's all the same pointer/window based UI... in theory there's cheaper options that do the same thing on paper, so why buy an iMac or Macbook? (Hopefully the answer is obvious).
 
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