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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 09:25 PM
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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 09:38 PM
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I don't think he's done too bad with a 12 month deal

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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by RobsyUK
I've had my 5 about 5 months and noticing when taking pictures I get purple lines all over the screen...
Does it do it all the time or just in certain lights? My 4s used to get upset by the neon strip lights in one of our workshops.
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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 10:03 PM
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It's the demon within inducing you to stay faithful
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Old Sep 21, 2013 | 10:17 AM
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Speaking of demons inside, it turns out that the 5s is powered by Samsung, the A7 chip is not fabricated by TSMC as originally thought.
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Old Sep 21, 2013 | 02:55 PM
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Orange 24 months
£40
Unlimited everything
£75 to buy phone been with them years no deals etc
£64to end contrAct 4 weeks early

Think ill swop contracts
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Old Sep 21, 2013 | 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by bioforger
£46/month and £300 up front ?!? only 6GB data? your colleague is nuts.

Its a 12 month contract so that's not a bad price, I always used to do 12 month contracts until last year as I needed to tether a tablet and you could only do that on a 24 month contract. As it happened it saved me a lot of cash so I decided if I wanted a new phone I would just buy a sim free one after 12 months.

I'm waiting for the Nexus 5 as I will be buying that and that should do me till June and the end of my 24 month contract
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Old Sep 21, 2013 | 07:01 PM
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Gone for a HTC One, £33.60, free phone and 6GB of 4G data a month, everything else is unlimited
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Old Sep 22, 2013 | 11:53 AM
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Bloody hell, those tariffs are crazy, I am not jumping on the 4g tarriffs until there is proper market competition. I pay £5 a month unlimited 3g data and 300 mins.
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Old Sep 22, 2013 | 03:48 PM
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Well, I live in the countryside. I barely get 3G let alone 4g. Needless to say, I didn't go for a 4g contract
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Old Sep 22, 2013 | 09:56 PM
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I got my 5s fri afternoon from Oxford street EE store

Awesome phone and uber fast ! Also 4G is awesome and available 95% of the country

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Old Sep 22, 2013 | 10:32 PM
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great phone- agreed.

4g? meh. I'm in the 5% that isn't covered, so not overly bothered!
http://www.4gcities.co.uk/4G_network...?City=hereford
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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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I'll hang in till 5g come out, if it means getting a reasonable deal

95% of the country lol..!!
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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 08:22 AM
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EE will have 98% of the population coverage by the end of 2014. Population coverage is completely different to area, so there will be large swathes that won't receive indoor 4g until much much later or ever.

Considering that all of the mobile providers cannot even get decent 3g coverage especially in the countryside don't rush to get 4g unless you live in a major population/city or want to spend silly money per month.

See EE coverage, its only small areas of major population. https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker

I'll stay on 3g and WiFi hotspots till prices drop below a tenner for unlimited data.

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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 10:39 AM
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It's just landed.

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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 07:10 PM
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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 07:18 PM
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I bet you have your unboxing video on youtube already


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It's just landed.

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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by andy97
EE will have 98% of the population coverage by the end of 2014. Population coverage is completely different to area, so there will be large swathes that won't receive indoor 4g until much much later or ever.

Considering that all of the mobile providers cannot even get decent 3g coverage especially in the countryside don't rush to get 4g unless you live in a major population/city or want to spend silly money per month.

See EE coverage, its only small areas of major population. https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker

I'll stay on 3g and WiFi hotspots till prices drop below a tenner for unlimited data.
Three do unlimited data for £12.90 with 200 minutes and 5000 texts and a free upgrade to 4G when they roll it out. This is the plan I've just moved to and also (*shame*) bought a pristine iPhone 5 32GB off a colleague for £299, the cost of his upgrade to the 5s. My thinking is that I should be able to sell it in a years time for around £350-£400 and then buy a new Galaxy S4 when they've come down in price
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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 09:41 PM
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The ***** have fully blocked 3rd party cables that don't have the authentication chips. Not impressed I'm going to have to shell out a shedload of cash on licensed cables now.
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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 10:07 PM
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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 10:14 PM
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ROFLOL - You bitch!

To rub salt in the wound I have just been on the Apple Store and I'm talking £70's worth of cables. lol To top it off.... the tossers want £4 postage!

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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 10:24 PM
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tried this


1. Turn on USB power
2. Plug in lightning cable to iPhone
3. Dismiss any warnings
4. Unlock your iPhone.
5. Dismiss any remaining warnings.
6. Now with the screen turned on.
7. Unplug the knock off lightning cable.
8. Plug it back in.
9. Dismiss warning again
10. It should now charge.
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Old Sep 23, 2013 | 10:27 PM
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Tried that... didn't work and I doubt I could be arsed to go through that everytime either.
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Old Sep 24, 2013 | 01:45 AM
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lol what a con
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Old Sep 24, 2013 | 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Shaun
The ***** have fully blocked 3rd party cables that don't have the authentication chips. Not impressed I'm going to have to shell out a shedload of cash on licensed cables now.
haha welcome to the realisation that Apple are money grabbing ****s who don't care about their users
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Old Sep 24, 2013 | 08:00 AM
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Cough http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...l_and_discount
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Old Sep 24, 2013 | 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Galifrey
haha welcome to the realisation that Apple are money grabbing ****s who don't care about their users
From a business perspective I would suggest they have ***** of steel. ***** which appear to have paid off with the reported sales figures coming out since Friday.

One of them.... innit.
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Old Sep 24, 2013 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by jonc
Three do unlimited data for £12.90 with 200 minutes and 5000 texts and a free upgrade to 4G when they roll it out. This is the plan I've just moved to and also (*shame*) bought a pristine iPhone 5 32GB off a colleague for £299, the cost of his upgrade to the 5s. My thinking is that I should be able to sell it in a years time for around £350-£400 and then buy a new Galaxy S4 when they've come down in price
5's are just about fetching that kind of price currently. What makes you think they will still be that price in a years time?
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Old Sep 24, 2013 | 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by P1Fanatic
5's are just about fetching that kind of price currently. What makes you think they will still be that price in a years time?
For the 16GB maybe, but the 32GB are still a little more, but also because iPhans on old devices will pay anything for better iDevice. Having said that I think I'm more inclined to go for the HTC One instead of the S4 having had a play with one.
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Old Sep 24, 2013 | 09:47 AM
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I got the cosmic grey one 64gb yesterday.

Fingerprint ID is good the ios7 is much better camera quality crisp and clear, phone very fast and already ios7.1 out
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