The Carphone Warehouse has been around since the time when I was using an Apple Macintosh Portable Computer, upgraded to 5 Megabyte of Random Access Memory in Hyde Park, on System 7.5 ? and had no telephone connection to and from it. All I had was a Global Village Telefax Modem, linked to a British Telecom landline wall socket. My first visit to The Carphone Warehouse was to a repair shop on St. Marylebone High Street, and they did not really care about my Motorola 301 flip-phone, registered to the Mercury One2One United Kingdom Network, which Ihave purchased from a Dixon's retail shop, in a box, near Hyde Park, late Twentieth Century. Subsequently, as the John Lewis Department Store nr Oxford Circus was not offering any meaningful choice in hand held mobile telephone, the Lady I trust to advise me on purchases chose the Carphone Warehouse nr Oxford Circus, Regent's Street corner. We purchased two Nokia 1100 mobile telephne hand sets in two boxes, registered to the Virgin Mobile Pay As You Go network. A few years later we purchased a Nokia 2720 fold-out handset from the Carphone Warehouse, Kengsington High Street, near the Our Lady of Victories Roman Catholic Church, and near the Commonweath Institute, now Design Museum, Holland Park. Also a Nokia Asha 300 touch screen hand held mobile phone. Again, servicing was not even attempted at The Carphone Warehouse, as it is difficult to enter into a Carphone Warehouse Shop and not come out with a new handset, instead of the old one being serviced. Service just does not happen, a person wanting service on a phone is somehow always at the back of the queu..I cant even spell it..The Carphone Warehouse Special Service Shop on the King's Road, Chelsea SW3, near the Moravian Church Grounds, where 'Christian, The Chelsea SW3 Lion' can be seen exercising in the green grounds on the Internet, iis now completely closed for good, metal shutters down, protecting the empty space which is used for nothing for now!! Question: Have Dixons and the Carphone Warehouse merged? Curry's? This review was written for Yelp at 08:57 a.m. Friday, 1st Day of December MMXVII - 2017 A.D. on the occasion of finding in London, mixed in with moving house refuge on the street, a Verizon Wireless Samsung fold-out handset, which sort of charges via a Universal Serial Bus connection, and Verizon kindly advising me that the best thing is to throw away the handset. So I searched for a Verizon Wireless shop in Central London, and found help from Yelp! I searched on a search engine, the name of which I forgot, now I will try to search on Bing! What I really really want is continued support for Microsoft XP and Vista! read more