Million Dollar Question: When iPhone 5s and 5c land in NZ?

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#921626 25-Oct-2013 12:51

Well, walked into Telecom, walked out with 64GB space grey. Very easy.

Two year warranty on open term. Not keeping the plan.

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#921628 25-Oct-2013 12:53

So after all that waiting around and refreshing for the Apple store, I called Telecom 123 just before and ordered a Gold 32GB iPhone 5S on 24 month interest free payment, on the $39/month open plan, and they said it will be delivered in 3-5 days (better than the 2-3 weeks from Apple!)
Should have done that at 9am this morning instead of waiting until lunch time :)

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#921629 25-Oct-2013 12:56

joker97: does anyone know if telecom will start to sell them outright on prepay? and will they stock 64gb?

and most important question - is buying from apple or buying from telecom better in terms of warranty during warranty period and after warranty period (aka cga)?

many thanks

Guess they will when demand drops. May take a day or two..

Regards,

Old3eyes

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#921630 25-Oct-2013 12:56

meme82:..
ps how's the gold in person? anyone upset it looks different to the promo pics? I'm pretty happy if it's lighter

IMO the shots here feel about right to what I have in my hand: http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/design/
Obviously lighting etc, plus monitor calibration blah blah. But it's more of that bronze feel than gold which is what I hoped for. Not so much "lighter"...

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#921631 25-Oct-2013 12:57

garethw:
meme82:..
ps how's the gold in person? anyone upset it looks different to the promo pics? I'm pretty happy if it's lighter

IMO the shots here feel about right to what I have in my hand: http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/design/
Obviously lighting etc, plus monitor calibration blah blah. But it's more of that bronze feel than gold which is what I hoped for. Not so much "lighter"...

I'm pretty happy with that! just didn't want some awful ochre yellow gold

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#921640 25-Oct-2013 13:20

I ended up going to Telecom at Sylvia Park and bought a 32GB Silver on open term, 24 months interest free.

Goodbye Vodafone after 10 years of mobile service! My number is being ported over this afternoon.

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#921660 25-Oct-2013 13:58

Called my gen-i account manager to try get one, who had a good lol at me (fair enough too). Funny I ordered my 32GB Black after some of you guys and have the slightly earlier shipping date.

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#921664 25-Oct-2013 14:06

lxsw20: Called my gen-i account manager to try get one, who had a good lol at me (fair enough too). Funny I ordered my 32GB Black after some of you guys and have the slightly earlier shipping date.

there was a saying back in the day - even God himself had to queue up for an iPhone

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#921685 25-Oct-2013 14:53

jarledb: It supports:

1 (2100 MHz)
2 (1900 MHz)
3 (1800 MHz)
5 (850 MHz)
7 (2600 MHz)
8 (900 MHz)
20 (800 DD)
38 (TD 2600)
39 (TD 1900)
40 (TD 2300)

Ref: http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

Interesting, I'm surprised Telecom hasn't re-used the 800Mhz frequency they used to use for their old analogue network for their LTE deployment - any reason why they've held off?

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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#921772 25-Oct-2013 16:21

lxsw20: Called my gen-i account manager to try get one, who had a good lol at me (fair enough too). Funny I ordered my 32GB Black after some of you guys and have the slightly earlier shipping date.

I think the Gold one is in short supply, thats why its taking longer for delivery.

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#921778 25-Oct-2013 16:36

Just got tracking notification for my 32GB gold 5S from Vodafone. Can't wait.

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#921780 25-Oct-2013 16:39

So if 700Mhz is going to be used in NZ for LTE does that mean people don't be able to use their NZ iPhone 5/c/s when the carriers move over to it? or do I understand this wrong?

lxsw20

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#921787 25-Oct-2013 16:58

Correct, much like how 2100MHz used to be the VF 3G standard, now it's mostly 900MHz I belive.

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#921837 25-Oct-2013 18:31

Tried to see if I could speed up the process by ordering from telecom, apparently all stores nationwide are out of stock at the moment! Off contract, that is.

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#921881 25-Oct-2013 20:26

At about 6 this evening, i was able to get a 64GB 5s from Telecom in Queensgate on open term. Sweet. What a jump in performance from 4S to 5s.

Jonathan

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