Staffer spills beans on O2 UK 3G iPhone launch

Queue, what queue?

5,000 iPhones per store!? There are 7 O2 stores within a 5 or so mile radius where I work and I can't imagine 35,000 people beating me to punch by lunchtime!

Confirmed

This review is more or less word-for-word what some helpful chap in my local O2 shop said yesterday. I'd have posted but I didn't realise it was news...

He could not comment on existing iPhone upgraders (ie no news on whether they will need credit checks too)

Steve Jobs finally gets the message!

Go on back to your air conditioned gadget filled head office and leave the contract phone selling to the professionals.

The new i-phone is just an improved version, so no need to have a silly launch. Also, the O2 staffer has probably been told to come in for 7am on launch day, and as the phone is now subsidised, it will be signed up for like any regular (or even better) phones are!

I still wont touch one, as i atill dont like $T£V£ JOB$.

ONLY 5000 per store???

How many jesus phones are O2 expecting to ship?

Confirms what I was told...

I was told the same story by an O2 staffer - except they were anticipating opening their store at 8am.

Makes sense - go in the week before, sign up, then go back on launch day and pay your money and take your iPhone. Saves time and effort in-store on launch day and provides a higher throughput of customers.

Think before transferring your number...

So if you want to keep your current number, you'll presumably have to obtain your migration code *before* going to the store. Hmm, bit of a pain, but not the end of the world I suppose.

it be true i tell thee

Just rang my local o2 shop (cheltenham) to enquire. I have poo credit so doubt i would get a contract.

Lovely lady told me to pop along any time after the 1st July as she can check it for me.

Looks to be true

Ist iPhone mugging

07:00 Stores open, 07:05 Smug new owner, looking at iPhone & not looking where their going, gets mugged o/s shop!

5000? Doubt it!

Surely at 5000 per store they cant process that many credit checks in 1 day? I mean 10 staff per store (average - my local store is tiny and probably couldnt fit in any customers if there were 10 staff!) they'd still have 500 applicatiosn each. 1 per minute and thats about 8 hours solid! So I reckon that either thats an exageration or they'll be spreading that allocation ofver a few days!

I reckon they've got to pre-check customers if they can - i mean if you can get checked before hand and just pay for the thing on the day, then 1 per minute is much more doable!

Still undecided if i can give up myu Pro-MS moral stance and buy a jesus phone tho - i mean - the phone isnt great, but - oooo that web browser.........

Not what I heard

I called O2 last night as I am due an upgrade.

I was told that they would be taking no pre-orders at all and noone can request one until launch day. She also told me that you would pick it up and take it home and register it on iTunes just as you did for the first model. Apparently there will be locks in place which mean if you did not pay for the handset then when you go to register you will only be able to select the top 2 contracts.

Oh Yes!! Oh Yes!!

I hope all the O2 stores have plenty of tissues on hand so that all the Macturds can clean up after themselves on receiving Steve Jobs' latest bit of overpriced tat.

PAYG Prices

http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paygo

£299.99 for the 8GB, £359.99 for the 16GB. Includes unlimited Wi-Fi/Data for 6 months, then you can pay £10/month to carry on with unlimited Wi-Fi/Data.

If you don't talk/text much and want the iPhone for data/wi-fi/ipod/apps/etc. then that sounds like a stonking deal to me.

I Cannot Wait.....

I personally cannot wait until the iPhone 2 comes out, i am unashamedly a "Apple Fanboy". The iPhone has changed the mobile market and many more phones have came onto the marketing trying to copy the iPhone. I have opted for an iPhone as i need access to Live Mail, and the Blackberry does not interface with Live Mail. This is not an overpriced phone -this is also an iPod and a web browser in one and because it is made by Apple you are getting a quality product!

You want a cheap phone then get a free one - you want a good phone then you know where to get it from!!!

iphone 2

Will the new iPhone have flash plugin 4 web browser. Picture msging. Sms forwarding. Blue tooth that can send files to other phones. Camra with Flash and zoom. Video recording. Disk mode to save files on iPhones hard drive.... All the things you would expect on a phone lol

O2 Price??

re: http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paygo

Have O2 removed the price listing already?? Saw it last night, but this morning there is no price!!! O2 cock-up??

staff view.

launch time is 08:02 i've heard.

staff will be in a 7am i guess.

Stores will NOT have 5000 units. a GOOD store is likely to sell between 150-250 new contracts a week. I expect stock will between 50-500 depending on store size.

NEVER 500 though, that would be crazy.

No official info has been released to staff though, so this is all intelegent specualtion. And staff haven't been told to keep quiet. YET.

Boooo

Not sure if anyone is still looking at this, but I just went to the O2 store on Victoria St and they were taking no sorts of pre-orders or setting up any new contracts.

The guy said it would just be first come, first served on the 11th.

Apple Store launch UK

Phoned O2 to get the lowdown on when the iPhone would be out on payg basis, they said they weren't confirming anything however the overzealous member of staff let slip to me that apple are launching it at their stores on the same day on the same basis. So i phoned Apple to ask if this was the case, to which i got a flat "no comment" from the lovely american lady! seems to me like they've got something going on!