Hardly a fire risk if it's cold fella.

Rather than being cryptic and unhelpful, perhaps you could be clear and helpful and point it out for the other members who use this website.

And when the mi 6 is out wait for the S9. But just as the S9 comes out may as well wait for the mi 7....

How did you get 20%? Website states 10% off for first purchase on Electrical goods.

No he means that he has cancelled the Amazon UK order and bought with Italian Amazon. They have given him a confirmed date.

at least you got a date. I didn't get a shipment date at all before I cancelled.

I did too, being sent on 2 may and delivery 9-11 may, so about 2-3 weeks after most people got it elsewhere, but it is worth the saving money

cancelled my order and ordered from Amazon.it instead. hope this bumps someone up :smiley:

just cancel and order from amazon italy, the phone is cheaper and it gives a delivery date of 4-6 May

Wow it's just getting worse! I'll have to contact Amazon again as it's been 3 days and they've still not replied back to me.

Asked again as I find this hard to believe so got this :

Ahalya: On checking, I see that we are unable to confirm this now. I have checked and see that we have requested the item with our suppliers,
And we expect the order to be dispatched and delivered between July 2017 - 5 July 2017

Ahalya: Please be informed that we would have dispatched the item if we have this item in stock.
I can completely understand the importance of your item.
Me: I understand but it would only be fair to inform the customers that estimated shipping is june-july early, not after me sending 10s of messages looking for an answer.
as this is massive delay

10th of April

When did you order? I ordered 4th of April and still haven't heard anything back from Amazon. I hope I don't have to wait that long too.

Prasad: Thank you for your patience Michal.
I have checked with my internal team and got the information that your order is planned to ship on 2017-06-08. The reason behind this is supplier is supplying this on this date Michal.

Me: In June ?

Prasad: Yes Michal I am extremely sorry for this.
As per the supplier's shipment this date are placed Michal.
Please accept my sincere apologies in this.


I'd recommend everyone cancelling as this is absolutely crazy

Hi, Just talked to them regarding the S8 Plus for the fourth time - They have no idea when it will be shipped. I should get an email within 24 hours..

Do you mind telling me when you pre-ordered? Trying to estimate how much longer I'll be waiting.

I've decided to cancel my order and wait for iphone 8. Very disappointment by this launch, 8 days early for some, release day for other, I preordered on Amazon and they have no stock at all. Seems very unfair to me.. If Samsung is unable to deliver phones, they can keep them.

I was at college and didn't have time to call them. So I hopped on the live chat and was connected to someone from the UK (it said amazon.co.uk otherwise it would just be amazon) - she was helpful and told me she'd ask a special team what is going on with the order and what not.
So the email goes:
"Hello,

We've checked your order #206-///////-/////// and we can confirm that it's already entered the dispatch process.

To help you better, we have contacted our fulfilment centre and instructed them to dispatch the order as soon as possible.

We hope you'll understand that we do our best to ensure that all of our customer orders leave our Fulfilment Centre as close as possible to the availability and delivery estimates that are listed on our website.

Once your order is sent you'll receive an e-mail confirming the date, contents and method of delivery.

If you don't get your e-mail confirmation by 48 hours, please let us know by replying to this e-mail and we'll investigate.

You can confirm the status of your order and see the estimated delivery date by visiting the “Your Orders” section of Your Account or by clicking on the following link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/css/history/orders/view.html

Thanks for your patience and understanding in this issue.

We look forward to seeing you again soon."

they still need a little more time apparently, looks like next week for me (at best)

Has anyone had a despatch notice from Amazon today for this arriving tomorrow?

How do you do that btw? Whenever I end up on help with amazon I end up talking to someone in India and all they do is copy and paste their help topics, doubt they even look at the actual order

Just to add to this, I contacted them today too, you should ask about your specific order because then they'll ask a special team (they did for me anyways) and sent me an email 3 hours later confirming my order was in the dispatch process, and they requested for it to be accelerated.
I just hope it comes on Friday.

thanks, will cancel my order so

I finally got an actual answer as I got through to Dublin. They are indeed giving them out in the order they received orders. They have started sending them out but they are having shortages of stocks so just sending them out as soon as they receive them. The next amount of stock is arriving on the 29th and then being sent out. So basically its just delayed. You may get your order before then, it was the 29th for me.

This is what i get from Amazon : "I'm afraid to say but we can't tell you exact date when this item would be in stock. For being an online retailer we only used to deliver the Manufacturer items to our customers.

Here I would only suggest you to please wait for few business days more. Because we will deliver this item on First Come First Serve basis and would like to assure you that the parcel will deliver you whenever the item would appear in stock. "

yeah thanks for the info. was thinking it might be sent next week (still might be lol)

thanks for that

Just in case either of you are curious I got in touch with Amazon, and the helpful CS person I chatted to said that on their system the phone is scheduled to be received by them before the 28th. They also said it will be dispatched for the release date and that there are no delays noted on the system.

Hmm, based upon what you've both said I've got to agree with you now, I'm not particularly hopeful.

I've decided to get in touch with them and see what they say this time as I'm away on holiday shortly after the 28th so I may cancel and purchase elsewhere, who would have thought a company the size of Amazon would be having these issues.

well it's 25th and they don't even have a release date, I would expect no stock too, so it doesn't look like they will be shipping in a day or two (for 28th delivery).

Spoke to customer service few times and all I got is that they are waiting for stock from supplier and than they will update the website.
I won't preorder something on amazon uk again as seems like other places are always better.

I have a feeling it may not be the 28th too because all the other Amazon sites such as France list the 28th clearly on their respective pages. I've emailed them and apparently they are investigating and getting back to me soon.

How not? There's nothing to suggest otherwise and Amazon has already said they'll dispatch it for release day (the 28th) so we should get an email Wednesday or Thursday at latest.

It doesn't look like that that's the case.

It's not out officially until 28th, so the release day will be that.

Any news about release date? (since most people that bought it elsewhere already have it) it would be nice if Amazon at least had an idea when they would like to release it.

Yes that is my problem with it, I'm not bothered it's the 28th but I would like to have an actual date on my order.

Yeah it's the 28th for everyone I think. Why a huge company like Amazon can't seem to put a date on the order is beyond me.

I've never received any email today so I'm assuming the release date is the 28/4 as opposed to today the 20/4. Not going to lie that sucks a wee bit.

I got an email randomly from them.
"I'm pleased to say that we’ll dispatch your order before the release date, as we intend for you to have it on its release day.

I’ve checked and can see that Samsung S8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Orchid Grey is eligible for Release Day Delivery. As long as you select Standard or One-Day Delivery to a UK postcode, we'll dispatch your order before the release date for its intended arrival on its release day.

To confirm that your order is eligible for Release Day Delivery, look for “Get it on its release day” in green, next to the delivery methods at checkout.

Release Day Delivery orders must be placed by the applicable pre-order cut-off date - you must select Standard Delivery no later than 4 days before release day, or One-Day no later than 2 days before release day.

Learn more about Release Day Delivery here:"

Did you get an update by any chance mate?

It's not the same though - adopted storage means that even with the fastest and highest quality SD card you're still going to have apps load slower than with internal storage - which is much faster and higher quality than any micro SD.

SD cards are much more prone to corruption too - particularly when hammered constantly with something like adopted storage. Samsung don't natively support adopted storage because of its complications, so you have to hack it onto the device if you want to use it. SD card manufacturers always offer long warranties but this doesn't help if you lose all your data because the card breaks.

You can use adopted storage though giving you the choice.

The opinion that this price is too much for a mobile telephone handset is not exclusive to those that dislike Samsung &/or their devices.

Voting is based on so many subjective factors that you cannot categorically state that just "Samsung haters" are viewing similar submitted "Deals" negatively.

Ive posted it even cheaper than this was but as seems to be the common trend samsung haters are rating it cold

I'm quiet annoyed with amazon, one would expect they would know by now. Everyone is shipping soon, yet Amazon doesn't even have release date. Very disappointing.

I contacted amazon to see whether I should cancel this order and get it elsewhere or will they be shipping soon and only got generic reply ''To know exactly about the incident, I have contacted our product group department and mentioned that there is no information available regarding the release date of the items. .....I would humbly request you to wait for 24 to 48 hours for the update. ''

Does anyone know the ship date for Amazon? I've got a pre order of an S8 with Samsung - Should get that Thursday, but after playing with the S8+ in the shop I've now also got a pre-order for the Plus with Amazon... Hoping to cancel the S8 with Samsung and get the S8+ from Amazon on Thursday too... however, I travel on Friday for 2 weeks and dont want to miss out.

Thanks.

EDIT: Canceled the order with Samsung... Have to be calm and wait for the actual phone I want - Plus I caught the Amazon order when it had the £57 off. :smiley:

To be fair, I wouldn't be comparing market shares like that... Android is sold on many devices by different manufacturers, whereas iOS is only sold by one manufacturer... a fairer comparison would be market share held by specific companies, i.e. Apple or Samsung...

You've not made any points there in fairness, and all you've done is make yourself look like an Android fanboy (ironically). Does it really matter what each person prefers? I think both have their benefits.

Feel sorry for you....

All this Android vs IOS stuff is funny, same old rubbish from fanboys. I had iPhones for a few years but not had one since the iPhone 4 back in 2011, been Android ever since and wouldn't return, the whole closed Apple eco-system is not for me, I like to be able to do what I want to do with my phone, not what Apple wants me to do, its as simple as that really.

As for which is better, well the stats speak for themselves, Android market share Q4 last year was over 81%, IOS share was 17%. Says it all really.

I'm not an Apple demographic as I use both devices. Even before I ever used an iPhone I stopped using Bluetooth file transfer though - the last time I used it in earnest was with the Nokia N95. Wireless charging is something I tried to get into but found a bit flawed, and its kind of become redundant now we have Quick Charge. My G5 for example charges enough to last me most of the day in the time I'm in the shower and getting ready.
File transfer is another thing I completely moved away from other than on very rare occasions, and in this instance it was chiefly whilst using Android devices. I now use Netflix, Spotify and Sky Q - among other services - so I've very rarely any need to drag a file over. This is more true on Android than even iOS, since it caches and uploads files in the background much more effectively than iOS - e.g. For Google Photos and Dropbox.

Drag and drop support on Android is a bit deceptive, since it assumes everyone uses a PC; on a Mac you have to install an app to do any file transfers from Android devices (and it isn't a very reliable app). On a PC you have to have iTunes installed to drag and drop content over to iPhone apps like VLC, but it's really no hardship, and you don't have to use iTunes for anything else. I don't really use these features anyway but for anyone who wondered, it's possible on both devices.

Unnecessary features you say - certainly so for the iPhone demographic...

Saying you're not an Apple fan doesn't make it necessarily so...

LOL!
All un needed features, non the less. I am not Apple fan, as using Samsung for 8 years. But honestly, iOS beats Android to dust.

Fingerprint scanner is real nonsense. Camera lens will be always dirty as you can't see where it is and many times will touch lens...

You have provided a list of subjective points, not actual facts.
Here's a short list of factual benefits of android that normal people actually care about:

1. Can support external memory cards to boost memory
2. Can support wireless charging
3. Supports drag and drop of media files
4. Supports the personalisation of home screens
5. Native support for bluetooth file transfer between devices without apps
6. A multitude of devices and designs with various features to choose from

I didn't say it was practical :wink: look at my comments earlier. The Plus model also has its scanner in a completely impractical place as you have to juggle to reach it (unless you have long fingers or hold your phone halfway up. I also type with my left hand, so I'd have to reach *over* the camera lens to reach it with either model. It seems like Samsung didn't want to remove or move their name from the centre of the back of the phone, so they opted to put the scanner in a daft position instead.

they sent me 20% off voucher if you dont shop with them for a long time they keep sending you vouchers

Tiny , but huge. And will slip off your hands more easily than previous models. As said: not practical in hand or pocket. At least for me.

You bet wrong, they made record pre-orders...

cold - huge

COLD - Better than an iPhone....

Back up to full price, expired.

Seems to be showing full price only now

I used both devices literally days ago...the 5.8" one you speak of feels tiny.

My biggest concern with the S8, having played with one, is vulnerability. I was always petrified of breaking the S7 Edge but the S8 has even less bezel, and you just can't buy decent curved glass screen protectors. I was also often accidentally catching UI elements with the fatty part of my hand even right up until I sold it three weeks ago, so hopefully false touch tech has improved with the S8.

As far as pure hardware goes, it is undeniably very attractive but I think Samsung phones are losing a bit of practicability in the pursuit of looks. If it works for them though, who's to criticise it.

Well, a bit bigger than S7 Edge, but nothing to compare to S7.Had it in hand in MVC 2017 so know the feeling. Many will be disappointed and I would never buy such tall phone-NEVER. Currently i am using Samsung Galaxy S7 as a work phone and iPhone 7 as private.

Pretty much the same size as my S6 Edge.

What phone you currently you got?

iPhone is more advanced because of iOS.
-Android cannot match speed.
-Android cannot match security.
-Android cannot match privacy.
-Android cannot match ease of use.
-Android can only provide paper specs, excuses for lag, hyped unused features...
I use both:Samsung S7 and iPhone 7, and as much as I love Samsung, iPhone beats it..

the phone is just way to expensive. it should be the price of the s7 when that came out. greedy samsung, i bet they have much lower pre-orders than last year. will stick to my s7

It is huge, you will see. I have it in hand in MVC 2017. It would not fit any pocket easily and really not practical. And S8+ is like a tablet...

I think to a large part it is nothing to do with looks or specs - if you're an 'iPhone person' or an 'Android person' the results will be different. Each comes with services and features people prefer. If you like Android and iOS equally though then the S8 is very attractive.

Funny how different people are - I'd much prefer if all phones had fixed storage tiers. My current phone is 32GB with a card slot and I just find that dissection of memory among apps annoying. At least the Pixel brings the option for those who prefer that sort of setup though, since only really Apple offered this before.

It's not a true 5.8" screen - or at least, the aspect ratio is different, so the actual area of the screen is probably no bigger than your 5.2" screen.

HMMmm, i was waiting for the Note 7 to come down in price and buy one but then the safety problem came up, i will buy this in about six months if it goes under £500

This was a code that was mailed to me, not a generic code so it won't work for others i would have thought.

5.8inch screen :confused:
Its nearly brick size...Loved Samsung but would never buy such large phone, which wouldn't fit my pocket.
5.2" is best size for me.

Very is crap in honouring codes. Last year i tried ordering an S7 Edge using a new account. Neither I, my wife, my sister or my dad successfully passed their credit check..and that was after initially being able to order the phone.

A few days later an email said to ring cs who asked for details such as passport numbers and other identification questions but still failed to pass their credit check. Bit of a farce company really.

How did you get 20% ? Its 10% with electrical goods i tried it !

Have had a couple of these ordered from Amazon for over a week now, nice to see the price has dropped, does anyone know if the release date of 28th is what Amazon will go by, is it just the Samsung store that's releasing early?

Exactly!

If you're going to boast about the very 20% off deal, then at least post the "generic" code or even better post the deal on here!

Voted hot for this post!

Yeah, 8 days before release date on pre-orders!

Has to be one of the worst marketing for a mobile!

You're either gloating or lying.... neither is helpful to anyone using this site.

Hoping this is the case!

Split between this and the 20% very offer but went with very in the end.

so many people are using 20% off code where you guys getting it from....? the one on the website only takes of 10% please can you share the 20% code with us all who are struggling to find them ive been trying all afternoon

lets hope they honour it and you dont get any problems.

What code did you use?

Just ordered the S8 for 20% off using very's discount code so this is cold compared to the deal I got.

Very surprised to be price drops on both models before it's release? Pre orders must be lower than expected? Personally it's overpriced, needs to be £650 max on the S8+... either way I'm so glad I'm waiting after release for the bigger price drop

I've just ordered the plus from amazon. hoping that it turns up on Thursday as on holiday from Friday afternoon :disappointed:

anyone able to guess if Amazon ore orders will be delivered on the 21st April?

Thanks, just ordered the s8 plus in black for £722.28
No dispatch date yet, hopefully it should arrive on 20th April or Not :confused:

Early indications suggest they are, on looks alone it makes iPhone really dated.

Pixel is highly rated but the fixed memory was a deal breaker for me. I want sd card slot and refuse to buy anything without.

Surely that's good for consumers? Do you want to pay more?

Poor quality trolling. Ps battery is from same manufacturer (ATL) as iPhone or some have Samsung SDI. The chinese supplier associated with the Note 7 has been dropped from supply chain.

Rather than being cryptic and unhelpful, perhaps you could be clear and helpful and point it out for the other members who use this website.

Apply for a Very Account by 04/05/17 and
enter the code below at the checkout.

LG7CA

10% off electrical and 20% off every other department.

This is the only one I can get
Over 18's only. Cannot be used on sale, digital download products, in conjunction with any other offers or on financial services products and delivery charges.

I don't know of any 'extra' credit checks that very do. It's a simple one that gives an instant decision, but if you have poor credit history then that's a different story. With regards taking 20% off you at a later date is pretty impossible if you sensibly use the interest free option and of course pay it off. Used them before for a few items and ended up paying exactly what your supposed to.
Have heard rumours about return problems, but that's not uncommon anywhere. Hope they give me commission for this :smiley:
10% off is a good deal really albeit for new customers.
Heat for the Amazon find.

No it isn't

The one on the website is 10% off for phones, not 20%.

So go to Very and get it.

If it's generic then it can be shared...

It's a generic code. You can get it from very

Not good price reduced already and it's not even out yet. Lol

I think it comes down to hardware vs software. The hardware on the Samsung is obviously the latest and greatest. With the pixel you will always get the latest version of android.

Any one know how this will compare to pixel? Other then size and price

Me too please

Don't fall for this so called 'revolutionary' phone just yet.

Wait for the Mi 6. Better and will be less than half the price of this. :sunglasses:

please can you share code
?

Haha best of luck with that, I'd be worried about them taking that 20% at a later date AND the extra credit check they carry out.
But good for you.
He who dares and all that..

Very nice glad I helped, I tried in vain to find a 20% off code but had no luck so I went for this Amazon deal instead, the 10% off code wasn't enough for me to be bothered having to deal with Very's often questionable CS.

Thanks, just went through old post and found a Very 20% discount code which still worked. Got an S8+ for £627. Happy days. :smiley:

Not sure if anyone knows when delivery for this is expected??

cold - fire risk

Both colors discounted for the plus version. Heat.

Perfect for a cheeky refund

You beat me to it :laughing:

​Thanks you worm! Kudos if you get what I just said.

​20% didn't work for me only 10%

Is this better than the latest iPhone, then?

Mega cold, not iPhone

​i got that is said no elronic items

Will plummet in price post launch Samsung a always do hot price if u can't wait though

Only thing i can think of is ...why?. It's only a phone ffs!.:confused:

he means he can try it and return it with no drama

You only get 20% off using a code received in the post from Very, 10% is as good as you'll get if you're a new customer.

Same here could only get 10% off

Got it for 555 through very with 20 percent off

He did pre order it for more.

Pre-order Price Guarantee: order now and if the Amazon.co.uk price decreases between the time you place your order and the release date, you'll be charged the lowest price.

pointless indeed they have NMPR police attached as well

and the phone blocked straight away...pointless

me to the s8 plus is 722.28 from amazon 7% discount there is a post on here.

it expect it will but doesnt matter. just looking forward to getting my hands on this beauty lol

craig i see this was going to post.will probably go cold just this website.im heat alough :stuck_out_tongue: