Got my iPhone today (UK)

Where did you buy it and for how much ? was there anything particularly difficult that you had to do to get it calling out/in ?

I am waiting until November before I decide whether or not to buy one (as I want to make sure everything will work as it should and I have a guarantee)

but congrats on getting your early!!!

Got it on ebay for 275. Nope all I had to do was activate it and unlock it (click 2 buttons and tap the iPhone screen basically) and it all works fine. I'm very happy with it, it's a LOT smaller than I thought it would be.

I just hope Apple release an update that enables some key features like MMS and more customization settings for things like text messaging and calendar.

how complecated was it to activate and unlock? did you pay extra for software todo this?

Mine is arriving with an American friend next week. I only have to pay him what it cost him, which was 220 ($400+tax) :D

I shall unlock it with a free method. Not sure what the OP meant about free versions causing problems...they use the exact same method as the commercial version.

- Run iBrickr to avtivate phone
- Once activated, use iBrickr to install anySIM (which is a free version of the one that costs 22)
- Run anySIM from the iPhone home screen....job done!

Then I can use my much-better existing o2 contract instead of the crap ones that will come when its launched in November.

So I get a 50 cheaper iPhone, 6 weeks before everyone else, and with a much better contract than everyone else......score :D.

yeh i'm with milk, definatly sounds like the best option (for me anyway)

Find out exactly how much$ for roaming in the EU, I dunn need to hear no horror stories from an over-gaga user.

Mine is arriving with an American friend next week. I only have to pay him what it cost him, which was 220 ($400+tax) :D

I shall unlock it with a free method. Not sure what the OP meant about free versions causing problems...they use the exact same method as the commercial version.

- Run iBrickr to avtivate phone
- Once activated, use iBrickr to install anySIM (which is a free version of the one that costs 22)
- Run anySIM from the iPhone home screen....job done!

Then I can use my much-better existing o2 contract instead of the crap ones that will come when its launched in November.

So I get a 50 cheaper iPhone, 6 weeks before everyone else, and with a much better contract than everyone else......score :D.
And no warranty whatsoever or option to return to an Apple Store if anything goes a bit funky with it. Great deal indeed!

I was tempted but even if something Apple could fix goes wrong with it, I wouldn't be able to get it fixed except at great expense. I'll wait for a UK one and hacktivate that. Same price, ultimately, and completely covered by Apple. :)

With every other portable Apple product covered by a worldwide warranty is that known for certain?

i managed to find this:
http://images.apple.com/legal/warranty/iphone.pdf

but it's too late for me to be reading thru all that lol.
hopefully there's something in there about international warrenty

Reading that site it looks like worldwide warranty to me?

Hey

Heres a copy UK O2 edge settings!

APN : web.02.co.uk
Username : faster
Password : web

Hope this helps??

hey, try these

. Getting EDGE (gprs) to work
Go to Settings, General, Network, EDGE and add the following

Vodafone UK
APN address: wap.vodafone.co.uk (Contract)
APN address: pp.vodafone.co.uk (PAYG)
Username: wap
Password: wap

Orange UK
APN address (Contract): orangewap
APN address (PAYG): paygwap
Username: Orange
Password: Multimedia

T-Mobile UK
APN address: general.t-mobile.uk
Username : user
Password: wap

O2 UK
APN address: wap.o2.co.uk
Username : o2wap
Password: password

Virgin UK
APN address: goto.virginmobile.uk
Username : user
Password: (leave blank)