O2 the only company that actually puts up prices when a new model comes out. Hope this gets heat as its the cheapest with good quality out there but got to get past the hotukdeals lottery.

I have a gold fish

Mine was locked but sister is on O2 so put her sim in for a day, made some calls and then got it unlocked for free. If you can't do that then it's £15 on payg

Did anyone find these phones locked to 02?

Did anyone try the 3 network SIM card first to see if it unlocked to all networks??

Thanks in advance

Was it unlocked when you received it?

I know this is old but just got an "Almost Perfect" 5S 16GB for £149.99 and it's mint, not a mark on it
only reason I think it's "Almost" is that it's in a generic box and only comes with the USB lead and SIM pin

Unlocked?

got mine yesterday...looked brand new no scratches. with apple warranty. all for just £134.99....a bargain.

Got mine looked brand new no sign of use 12 month Apple Warranty and still had screen protectors on etc. Put a Giff Gaff chip in which runs on 02 anyway and it works fine with no issues. Chuffed with this although I did buy the perfect one for £139.99

mine turned up today.. locked to 02. dammit. it was an almost new but looks flawless.

O2 have had the PAYG at £129 for a while now and then started messing with the prices earlier this week up to £139 but now £199?

Is this a result of Apple adjusting their computer prices and now phones to follow?

ordered yesterday £134.99

anyone know if it comes with warranty???

orderee yesterday £134.99

anyone know if it comes with warranty???

Expired, perfect one is now £199
You better get new one and unlocked from giffgaff for £219
https://www.giffgaff.com/mobile-phones/apple/apple-iphone-5s/phone-details

Yes, you're better off going for brand new for £168 now (24 x £7).

Nope that's the almost perfect - perfect which was £139 is now £199

apple warranty checker

I ordered the perfect for £139.99 and it gets delivered Monday. Well pleased with that price as was gonna get the SE but couldn't justify an extra £200 cause I don't use the phone a lot anyway

It's gone up to £149 but still available

How do you tell if it still has the Apple Warranty ?

Ordered yesterday at £134.99

yup...and also mine is unlocked ...and full apple 1 year warranty

Expired now showing £199

Just picked mine up. The "almost perfect" grading does it injustice. The phone looks absolutely brand new, with not even the slightest hint of previous use. Maybe I just got lucky.

Plenty of discussion here if needed.


http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/unlocked-grade-a-refurb-payg-16gb-iphone-5s-12-month-warranty-o2-for-153-99-2428469

Seems to vary as to who you ask. I am with 3 and recently bought an iPhone. I was thinking of getting it from CPW but there was a thread or two on Macrumors from people who had done that and the phone locked to 3. No biggie as 3 unlock for free, right?

However, 3 only does that for phones it supplies. If it cannot find the IMEI on its server, it cannot send the request to Apple's servers to unlock. He was having a mare as 3 couldn't do anything and passed him onto Apple, who passed him back to 3 who passed him onto CPW, who cannot unlock anything, He was left trying to find a hacker on eBay who could do it. O2 normally supplies pre-locked iPhones. It really depends where O2 sourced these phones from as to how they will behave on activation.

From 3's T&Cs: "If you’ve recently bought or upgraded an iPhone from Three, it'll be unlocked as soon as you activate it over Wi-Fi or connect it to iTunes on your computer."

Nothing about 3rd party purchases. I checked with Three and got contradictory and inconclusive advice from the call centre drones.

Yes this is 100% true BUT if you do buy an "auto locking" iPhone it WILL lock itself to the 3 SIM (or ANY SIM in fact)! 3 will then unlock for free (as they would not have locked it!)

If you put in a 3 SIM and the phone turns out unlocked that isn't to do with 3 - the phone was not locked to start with!

Well as mine is O2 refresh and theoretically a contract then I've just read O2 will unlock these free and at anytime compared to the £15 for pay and go...

They charge more for everything, you can buy new for less than they charge for smelly grubby items in a lot of cases

Three are the only network that don't lock phones :smiley:

Have a look at the earlier o2 thread from a few months ago, plenty of people prove it works.

got my one £129 like new.

No - if it works it will lock to Three. They will then unlock for free.

Popped a 3 SIM in mine, followed by my BT one. All unlocked and working fine

Perhaps unlikely to work in all cases. Ones from CarphoneWarehouse are arranged to do this BUT, when I had a Vodafone supplied contract iPhone it was locked to that network from its arrival. Most probably most O2 ones may be as well.

Does the 3 sim work to affectively unlock the phone?

O2 refresh £168
Compared to £245 ish pay and go

Sign up for phone in store... Takes no more than 5 mins .
Then Phone up customer support and pay outstanding balance in one go.

You then affectively have a pay and go phone for £70 less.

i do but not a micro sim, ive ordered a replacement life mobile sim as this will be my 13 year old sons new phone for christmas as apparantly android isnt cool enough :-/ i dont want to put in the o2 sim as it will activate it?

How do you get one for that price?

Remember the 3 sim trick if the phone had never been used put the 3 sim in and it won't lock.

Do you have any other network sim to try?

Picked up a brand new one this afternoon from my O2 shop for £168

Better value IMO for the extra £30

Mines just turned up and seems to be unlocked as put Life mobile sim in and it worked fine.

Will these work on giff gaff or do they need unlocking ?

Just checked with him and he's moved to EE but thanks anyway.

received mine today (perfect 16gb silver), put in a 3 mobile Sim and worked a treat. Guess some come pre-unlocked

Pay As You Go customers
If you're on Pay As You Go, your O2 phone can be unlocked 12 months after you bought it. It’ll cost you £15, which we'll deduct from your airtime balance. This policy might vary depending on which phone you’ve bought.
http://www.o2.co.uk/help/phones-sims-and-devices/unlocking-an-o2-mobile-to-use-on-a-different-network

on PAYG or Refresh contract?

I got this deal for £153 in May, still really happy with the phone, it was basically new.
I put a 3 sim in then my giffgaff sim in and it worked perfectly.
Someone said in the old thread that a 3 sim unlocks the phone, I'll find the comment if people need it.

it was the perfect one I bought, but you had to select an air time package, then you had to tick a box before you buy the phone saying something about activating the sim, didn't read all the message :smile: don't mind paying for one month then cancelling if need be.

just bought this for my daughter, cheers.
quick question do they send you out the bundle sim pre activated or can you just bin the sim without cancelling as I'll be using giff gaff

There is a web-form somewhere to request unlocking. I have seen this trick mentioned a lot - but have not personally used it!

Hope that is the case as will save me a bit of bother

Webchat tells a different story £15 to unlock straight away.

i'm pretty sure the father in law is on O2 so might just have to do that. I wonder how I'd go about it and whether I'd need to put his sim in the iphone

Hi decided to get a Samsung S7 through O2, and although the phone looked great, I haven't been able to use it as O2 haven't been able to unlock it. I've been chasing O2 for over 3 weeks, having spent over 5hours on the phone to customer Services and 4 visits to there stores, and advised them many times the code they have provided does not work, yet every time we go in circles and they keep providing the same code, and keep having the same conversations. I don't believe anyone at O2 has an IQ above 5. So be warned, from personal experience,
it's a lot of hassle.

That's pretty good support Brian but I'd still be concerned about things like the lack of RAM and trashed battery impacting the user experience.

'Almost perfect'? Like saying this condom is 'almost unused'

Stupid policy - as it makes O2 one of the worst providers to get unlocked from at the minute!

Of course there is a trick. If you can find a friend on an O2 Contract they can apply for an unlock - giving your phone's detail - immediately.

I tweeted them last night and they have replied just now saying a payg phone needs to be used on the network for 12 months

great phone though use mine as a backup thesedays.

do you get any warranty with this???

Decent

Only by about 7 minutes, which coincidentally is about the same as the 0-60 of said car!!! :smile:

I have a gold fish

Great phone.

I had iPhone 6 for £189

I got it new for £168 o2 refresh in store deal. Seems worth spending few more quids to get brand new phone , oh iPhone with IOS 10 shipped coming preinstalled these days

I bet I could buy a llada for the price of this phone!

will a tesco sim work in this

Yes agree the refresh contract was a good offer. As this was my first deal I just doubled check the link and it does go to the payg offer. I can only assume contract deal is oos now.

As I said first deal so thanks everyone for support :smile:

New in September 2013 - but this is Apple and not Android!!! Support for the 5s is likely to continue until at least late-2018.

Yes the 6SE has a better camera, Apple Pay and a more powerful CPU but this is pretty good value at under half the price!

If you choose perfect 16gb it is only £139.99 too. In my experience the 'perfect' handsets are brand new refurbs - new shell and screen.

What year is this phone? 2013? Even though its cheap, (by iphone standards,) I think its poor value as its support will soon expire.

Even though its double the cost, for me, the iphone SE is much better value as it will get more than double the amount of support from apple.

Of course, if you look out of the i-field, for £140, there are plenty of phones that will perform better and last longer.

this is still a great phone, mine works and is of course slower by the side of a new phone, but for me as a standard user is fine.. i dont feel it slow.. battery life is OK.. good price.. i think CEX charge more for the same phone.

Only 16GB. :-/

its not out of stock. just ordered the perfect 16gb at 139.99. great deal

Gone up £5 since last week? http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/iphone-5s-16gb-silver-almost-perfect-condition-129-99-o2-shop-2529832

Oos

What's the camera like on it? How does it compare say to a budget newer model phones eg moto 4g or Samsung a3?

I have the 5c love it but poor battery life

Just spoke to customer services at O2 and they said they would unlock for £15 straight away.

I don't know anyone on O2. If I bought one of these would they unlock it for the £15 charge, or would I be stuck with a phone locked to O2?

Does anyone know if they will unlock for free because when I asked before they said they charge £15 to unlock

Out of stock!

It'll be locked and they charge £15 to unlock it - think they will only unlock after 12 months on payg - can get it unlocked on eBay though

Would like to know is this locked to O2 or will it lock to the first sim put in? Also would O2 unlock this, even at a cost?

Oos

whats the value of the phone like if i wanted to sell it on?

Thank you for the reply

Man that's a confusing couple of options. Still happy with like new over perfect or almost perfect :confused:

Showing as £139.99 me but still pretty hot and perfect timing as the eldest has insisted he must have an iPhone, so guess he will now :disappointed:

No chargers.
Just usb cable in plain box ( plus phone of course :stuck_out_tongue: )

Do these come in the original boxes with the original chargers?

will these be unlocked or are they locked to o2, cheers

Got the 'perfect' like new 5S for £153.99 on 02. Not bad prices really.

O2 the only company that actually puts up prices when a new model comes out. Hope this gets heat as its the cheapest with good quality out there but got to get past the hotukdeals lottery.