Poll: *** The Official iPhone 15 thread (it has USB-C and everything!) ***

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I will be leaving EE on Friday. I have been with them for years but they couldnt/wouldnt offer me anywhere near the same deal as i can get from Lebara(On Vodaphone Network) for a rolling monthly contract. Signals at home and at work for 4G and 5G look better that EE according to BID. I managed to get 30Gb of 5G data, unlimited calls and texts with data roaming in EU or India and 100 International minutes for £8.95 PM and the first 3 months are £3.95. Best EE could do was £12 PM for 20Gb and they wouldnt budge.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Maybe O2 throttles the signal for GiffGaff customers and a native O2 account would be better, but I'm not really willing to go through the hassle of switching to find out.
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I was on Giffgaff for several years before moving to EE 3 years ago. While Giffgaff have great prices and a unique community driven model. I found that the data speeds were sometimes heavily throttled compared to regular O2, this was especially evident in central London at busy times of day. I recall being in Covent Garden (having just picked up my new iPhone from the Apple Store) and trying to load up Google Maps to find the directions to meet a friend and not being able to. I had to walk back into the store to use the free WiFi to do this! This was very frustrating at the time. They don’t actually reduce signal strength for Giffgaff customers though, and phone calls were never a problem. So I would expect you would have the same signal issues with O2 in your house as you do with giffgaff. However, O2 would have WiFi calling which would help negate this issue. While EE isn’t the cheapest, I find them to be very good and I’ve never had issues with data speeds. Also, having extra features like WiFi calling, visual voicemail, included EU roaming (legacy plan) and Apple Music is great.

Had giffgaff not let me down a few times too often in central London (only at busy times), I would have probably stayed. I didn’t actually have problems with them at other times at all and really like their business model. However their speeds were never close to what EE provide.
 
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I was on Giffgaff for several years before moving to EE 3 years ago. While Giffgaff have great prices and a unique community driven model. I found that the data speeds were sometimes heavily throttled compared to regular O2, this was especially evident in central London at busy times of day. I recall being in Covent Garden (having just picked up my new iPhone from the Apple Store) and trying to load up Google Maps to find the directions to meet a friend and not being able to. I had to walk back into the store to use the free WiFi to do this! This was very frustrating at the time. They don’t actually reduce signal strength for Giffgaff customers though, and phone calls were never a problem. So I would expect you would have the same signal issues with O2 in your house as you do with giffgaff. However, O2 would have WiFi calling which would help negate this issue. While EE isn’t the cheapest, I find them to be very good and I’ve never had issues with data speeds. Also, having extra features like WiFi calling, visual voicemail, included EU roaming (legacy plan) and Apple Music is great.

Had giffgaff not let me down a few times too often in central London (only at busy times), I would have probably stayed. I didn’t actually have problems with them at other times at all and really like their business model. However their speeds were never close to what EE provide.
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Thanks for that. WiFi calling could be the solution to my problems. EE's signal here is even worse than O2, so I'd probably be looking at an O2 contract.

Visual Voicemail would also be nice. I'll have a look and see what the SIM-only deals are like.

Oh, my 15PM has arrived. :D

Just need some time to open it and get it set up.
 
dav3evans said:
I found that when I called them and said I can get a plan with O2 that was £10/£15 cheaper than theirs so why would I stay, they looked at my usage and sorted me a contract for £6 a month. For anyone that's suffering from the inertia that leads to your contract just creeping up in price, make the call. Newbies might do well to do the same, might work!
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Same happened with me, and if you’re a bt customer you get double data
 
My 15 Pro Max is now scheduled to arrive tomorrow. The initial delivery window was 9-16 Oct. So I’m glad it’s arriving a few days earlier. Noticed a ‘Get Ready For Your New iPhone’ window and migration wizard appeared in Settings as soon as my order shipped.. very slick.

I think I’m going to ensure that individual things are backed up e.g. msg history and photos and just set up as a new iPhone rather than p2p migration or restoring from iCloud backup. That’s what I usually do anyway. Banking apps are always a pain though!
 
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OverDrive said:
I think I’m going to ensure that individual things are backed up e.g. msg history and photos and just set up as a new iPhone rather than p2p migration or restoring from iCloud backup. That’s what I usually do anyway. Banking apps are always a pain though!
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There is zero benefit to doing this, may as well just do a phone to phone transfer and save yourself the hassle of starting from scratch.
 
ChrisD. said:
There is zero benefit to doing this, may as well just do a phone to phone transfer and save yourself the hassle of starting from scratch.
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Perhaps I’ll try the phone to phone transfer then. I’ve never actually done it before. I understand that it works quite well though.
 
OverDrive said:
Perhaps I’ll try the phone to phone transfer then. I’ve never actually done it before. I understand that it works quite well though.
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There is absolutely no need to start afresh with apple. Just transfer everything over, it worked a lot better than last time a lot of the data went over. Like google authenticator, you had scan the QR code to get it across - yeh it takes two seconds but it saves having to do that.

Once you’ve got everything over, just go through it all and make sure it all works. Then and only then do you wipe the old phone.

Then just start deleting stuff you don’t need. It’s the way to go.
 
Always EE for me too. Unlimited bundle for £23 a month, 5G, fastest speeds around and I very rarely lose signal or experience slow connection.
 
Well I’ve got my phone setup and it’s running smoothly now, but it was far from a straightforward process.

Despite doing a P2P transfer, my iCloud passwords didn’t sync, and I got logged out of everything so setting up new apps etc was a bit of a pain, finding the password on my Mac and putting them in. I had to log out of iCloud, restart the phone, log out of iCloud on my old phone and then something seemed to click and it downloaded all my passwords (although there are still some missing).

It also didn’t want to sync with my Apple Watch, so I had to do a factory reset of that before it could find it.

Far from the simple process I had when I set up my XS from my 6S five years ago.

However, it’s working now and so far I’ve been very impressed. It’s quite an upgrade!
 
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ZXSpectrum said:
I will be leaving EE on Friday. I have been with them for years but they couldnt/wouldnt offer me anywhere near the same deal as i can get from Lebara(On Vodaphone Network) for a rolling monthly contract. Signals at home and at work for 4G and 5G look better that EE according to BID. I managed to get 30Gb of 5G data, unlimited calls and texts with data roaming in EU or India and 100 International minutes for £8.95 PM and the first 3 months are £3.95. Best EE could do was £12 PM for 20Gb and they wouldnt budge.
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Lyca use EE.


I’ve been with every provider and haven’t been able to get away from how significantly better EE are for data connectivity, stability and signal availability.
 
Yep, as long as you don't need to use Lyca customer service they are great, if anything at all goes wrong with your account it is like dealing with Scottish Power trying to get anywhere. :D
 
Sounds like calling pretty much any large company these days. It took talk talk 4 months and 5 phone calls to cancel my account and then refund the over charges when I moved to an alt-net.
 
How are the speeds with Lyca? Anyone in central london ? Currently with EE but am looking to switch due to costs and poor service (no access to bills via my online account!)

Back OT. Have a 15 pro max to replace my 12 pro max scheduled arrival of 9-16th of November. Seems they are being dispatched faster however.
 
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