I received my iPhone 4 yesterday and have been using it without any problems.  Big difference is price paid.  Mine was $299.00 USD with a 2 year contract.  2 year contracts are usual in the US.

The metal case is smoothly machined and feels great. The processor is twice as fast as the previous iphone  and is noticeable especially switching between applications.

Thanks for your first impressions linder. 24 month contracts are not uncommon in the UK either, but due to my travels a contract of this duration would not be practical for me. I will buy the phone unlocked in the UK or in France. The only other country that sells unlocked iPhone 4 that I know of is Canada.

Stars wrote:

Thanks for your first impressions linder. 24 month contracts are not uncommon in the UK either, but due to my travels a contract of this duration would not be practical for me. I will buy the phone unlocked in the UK or in France. The only other country that sells unlocked iPhone 4 that I know of is Canada.

I understand the dilemma when it comes to travel.  I purchased my Serene phone in France and have kept it for travel.  While traveling outside of the US, I use Skype on my iPhone usually for calls back to the US.  My wife wants an iPhone also but her contract won't allow for a change for another month.  She is looking forward to using the video phone function but I am not so sure about that. 😐

NZ does unlocked iPhones 🙂

I've just used my wife’s upgrade to order an iphone 4 for £169 and £30 a month on a 2 year contract, so will give my verdict in a few days.

She already has a 3GS and I can no longer pretend that either the Serene or the Seranata can compete on any level with an iphone except sound quality, for that reason I may keep the Serenata just for playing music when I eventually get a pair of Beolab 4's.

Absolutely no interest in an iPhone. 

I ordered a SonyEricsson X10 and I'm more than happy with it! The biggest plus? Not everybody is running around with it ;-)

Steve Job's advice on the "really coolly engineered" antenna problems - "don't hold it that way"! Either that or buy a £25 elastic band to wrap around it!😉

Absolutely incredible/laughable. Only Apple could release something like this and seemingly get away with it - any other company would be (rightly) pilloried.

TWG wrote:

The biggest plus? Not everybody is running around with it ;-)

Now why would that be? 👍

Puncher wrote:

Steve Job's advice on the "really coolly engineered" antenna problems - "don't hold it that way"! Either that or buy a £25 elastic band to wrap around it!😉

Absolutely incredible/laughable. Only Apple could release something like this and seemingly get away with it - any other company would be (rightly) pilloried.

The most ironic part is that Steve Jobs WAS holding the phone "that way" during the big Apple event when he unveiled the new phone AND COULDN'T GET IT TO WORK because he was covering the antenna and didn't realize it!