iPhone 4...What Package and carrier are you going for?

pah

Hey guys this might seem a silly question to some but is phone insurance included in the price when you take out a contract, I was always sim free till about a year ago and never bothered with insurance, got a nokia n97 last year and went on vodafones simply rolling 30 day contract & took out insurance for €6 a month, I've been looking through the sites and there's no mention of it?

drunkmonkey

@S, If you went 30 day sim only you could knock another 120 off that and I'm not sure if the porting offer is still going but if it was that would be another 100, 579
for the year if your going to stuggle on with your existing phone..

Elessar

Be aware if you're getting the iPhone 4 on 3, when the 3G signal is lost the iPhone does not automatically switch back to 3G. You have to manually switch it back. Happens a lot and is quite annoying.

spannerism

Elessar wrote: »

Be aware if you're getting the iPhone 4 on 3, when the 3G signal is lost the iPhone does not automatically switch back to 3G. You have to manually switch it back. Happens a lot and is quite annoying.

How do you do this? Is a handset switch off/on. It does sound annoying

Elessar

You have to go into Settings>Carrier>wait for it to search and then select 3 (3G). PITA.

displaced dub

O2 350 12 month contract with a gold upgrade so dont know how much the phone is going to cost

gbee

Elessar wrote: »

You have to go into Settings>Carrier>wait for it to search and then select 3 (3G). PITA.

I must keep an eye out for this .. I've not noticed it on my 02 iP3G now, two years on.

Mark4

I moved from o2 to VF 5 weeks ago when my contract was up. Very bad 3g coverage I find, the Apps I used daily with o2 without issue won't work. Not happy and thinking of going back to o2 now. VF told me they were having problems with 3G all the time and to turn it off !

Mark4

Elessar wrote: »

Be aware if you're getting the iPhone 4 on 3, when the 3G signal is lost the iPhone does not automatically switch back to 3G. You have to manually switch it back. Happens a lot and is quite annoying.

Could this be happening with VF also?? because when I lose 3G I seem to have to turn off/on my phone to sort it out

Dublinstiofán

Mikey23 wrote: »

Moving from O2 to 3.

Really poor O2 coverage in our estate in Galway city, so a switch was always on the cards, but really disappointed by Vodafone's pricing. 3 seems fine on the coverage map, but we'll see.

Any you expect Threes' coverage to be better? I couldn't get a signal in Dublin CC with Three.

Dublinstiofán

MGMTea wrote: »

ok... i'm dying to get an iPhone 4, i want to get a pre pay one soo does anyone know how much it might cost? and if i wanted to ditch O2 for Meteor could i get a sim free iPhone 4 ?

cheers

€599 and €699 direct from Apple Sim free apparently. None of the carriers are offering Prepay options at the moment.

gbee

Mark4 wrote: »

Could this be happening with VF also?? because when I lose 3G I seem to have to turn off/on my phone to sort it out

Maybe it's the iPhone! We know we've had these problems since the iPone .0 appeared.

I use a modem stick on VF ~ I move around sending heavy data [5mb pictures in blocks of ten or more] since the last update about 9 months ago, I've never lost a file, it goes through all the speeds to no service and picks up again no bother at all.

I don't understand why the iPhone would not do the same thing, is not the service the same? But I don't know, it confuses me why one service would be great and another bad.

because I was so thrilled with my VF Stick Mod in a lappie I was considering changing my contrast for the VF iP4 away from 02, with whom I'm not that pleased with, but from reading these last few posts, VF and the iPhone has the same or even worse problems [with the iP].

elvis jones

displaced dub wrote: »

O2 350 12 month contract with a gold upgrade so dont know how much the phone is going to cost

419 i believe, i'm the same but going for an 18 month contract and its 299

Cherrycola

Ok, so if you were number 2 on the list in you local VF store, and were pretty much guaranteed to get an Ip4 tomorrow, and avail of the current price plan Perfect Choice Access Plus @ 35euro per mth, would you do it?

Ive had a VF mobile dongle, and when i lived one side of town 3G coverage was crap, the other side of town not so bad, but constant disconnections.
No idea what 3's coverage is like, but its a midlands town, not a city so im guessing it will be worse than VF.

Would you hold on, and risk losing out on the phone tomorrow and possibly losing out on signing up to VF current plan if they dont get any more stock until after Sept 1st??

Gumbo

Mark4 wrote: »

Could this be happening with VF also?? because when I lose 3G I seem to have to turn off/on my phone to sort it out

gbee wrote: »

Maybe it's the iPhone! We know we've had these problems since the iPone .0 appeared.

doesnt happen to my iPhone 4 on Meteor.
it will switch between 3G and Edge by itself.

Stuxnet

went into my local 3 shop this morning, asked what the story was in getting phone tomo, he said if you sign up before 2pm today you'll get one tomo morning, the store which will remain anonymous for the moment ! were supposed to be getting 5 units, and so far he had 3 signups, he urged me to run home to get id's etc, so i did and came back about 12, he said the phones just landed in the shop, they got 12 units, we did the paper work, he rang me back about an hour ago saying everything is hunky dory ive been approved for a phone, come in tomo at 8am, and gave me a reference number, those in the que with reference numbers will be allocated the phones first, so im hoping being number 4 to sign up, will guarantee me one, happy days

slasher_65

I asked about doing that, and I was told that Apple weren't actually letting Three hold phones past midnight for people.

So, if anybody is in the queue tonight for Grafton Street, I may be wondering around with a microphone getting sound bites (if I get preregistered) so come and say hi!

Stuxnet

maybe, but we're not getting a mid-night opening,

kingshankly

There's a little white box with my name on it

slasher_65

kingshankly wrote: »

There's a little white box with my name on it

WHITE?!? Kill him! He has a secret White iPhone!

slasher_65

Anybody know what the upgrade situation is with 3? Are they every 12 months? Maybe they will let me call a section 17 on them, the same way I got out of the O2 contract. Here's to hoping!

Dades

slasher_65 wrote: »

Anybody know what the upgrade situation is with 3? Are they every 12 months? Maybe they will let me call a section 17 on them, the same way I got out of the O2 contract. Here's to hoping!

I asked that question in the Three thread... something like every 14 mths officially - but unofficially thet allow one after 10 (on an 18 mth contract). Search the thread for clarification.

mailforkev

I have an upgrade with 3 on my account but no-one there can tell me what this means for the cost of an iPhone 4, just off the phone with them there (for the second time today).

They say the info isn't in their system but will be at midnight.

donkey balls

mailforkev wrote: »

I have an upgrade with 3 on my account but no-one there can tell me what this means for the cost of an iPhone 4, just off the phone with them there (for the second time today).

They say the info isn't in their system but will be at midnight.

im getting different prices from 3 compared to their website im on a old tarrif 80e a month yet they qouted me 250e for the phone,but if you look at their flexi plan for 80e a month the phone works out at 169e.
im still waiting on them to get back to me about it.

slasher_65

Out of interest, how do statutary rights fit into a phone contract? If it turns out Three have no coverage after telling me it's perfect in my area, do I have a comeback?

Mark4

Hey, It's not the phone as it worked perfect for 18 months on o2, problems only started when I changed to VF. p.i.t.a

gbee wrote: »

Maybe it's the iPhone! We know we've had these problems since the iPone .0 appeared.

I use a modem stick on VF ~ I move around sending heavy data [5mb pictures in blocks of ten or more] since the last update about 9 months ago, I've never lost a file, it goes through all the speeds to no service and picks up again no bother at all.

I don't understand why the iPhone would not do the same thing, is not the service the same? But I don't know, it confuses me why one service would be great and another bad.

because I was so thrilled with my VF Stick Mod in a lappie I was considering changing my contrast for the VF iP4 away from 02, with whom I'm not that pleased with, but from reading these last few posts, VF and the iPhone has the same or even worse problems [with the iP].

Gumbo

slasher_65 wrote: »

WHITE?!? Kill him! He has a secret White iPhone!

i thought that myself when i bought mine, i was like WTF, please be a white one.........but i was pleastantly dissappointed when a black one popped out of the box at me

pauldry

Im on 02 gonna move to 3 as well to 3 my mind:)

Rezident

Leaving O2's gouging, probably for Three.