Had an amazing time at the Vodafone store. We talked with the cell phone salesmen for over an hour…read moreabout what to do and see in London. They made me feel so welcome and gave us a great deal on data! Could not recommend more highly. Go have a chat with Tze.

Great and Fast service from staff. Was able to help find us the SIM card we need for your summer…read moretravel.

I am using this review not only to compare it to regular standards for a store, but to compare it…read moreto its direct competition 2 doors down, which is the Vodafone store. Located in the Brunswick. It's a small-ish store, but it's as small as the staff are helpful and friendly (meaning they are quite so). They say that close at 6(or maybe 6:30?) PM, but unlike the Vodafone store 2 doors down (which holds the closing Time to the T), they are often open a bit later, and are willing to continue to talk to you after 6. It's quite nice. Their shown prices on the pay-as-you-go wall include the £10, so you know exactly how much you're getting into (unlike the Vodafone, which gives an initial price, but the customer must keep in mind that there is still another £10 to part with, after the initial cost--this news is located in the fine print). After having tried both services, the customer care in the 3 Store is quite nice (hence the friendly staff), while the Vodafone store's service is, in my experience, atrocious (one store gave me information, told me to come back the following week, then had a sign the said following week that said they were remodeling for 10 days...another just gave complete wrong information and refused to verify, even when challenged.) So while 3 might perhaps not have had such a high review without the negative experiences down, I say this to you: what is light, without darkness? Happiness, without despair to compare it with? Vodafone was my despair; 3 is happiness in this case. The end!

As soon as I get to London I look for a 3 store for my SIM card. Always good service and this shop…read morewas no exception. Plus there was only one other person in front of me! I was in and out in 15 minutes after having my SIM card 'topped up'. This store is located in a nice shopping center, an added bonus

Stopped here to get a UK SIM for voice and data while in the UK for a week…read more They didn't have anything in stock, but pointed me to the O2 shop across the street, so recognition for that.

Dear lord. Dropped…read morein from the US (yes, yes, start your flaming) and needed to pick up a prepaid SIM for data only. Now, I am usually a very sweet traveler. I try to smile, and I don't expect other cultures to smile back. I speak carefully as I can, and I try very hard not to have communication issues. When I travel, I understand at my core that I am a stranger in a strange land. The weird one. I GET it. I am more inclined to think that any rudeness is due to me, or my misinterpretation of the culture, than another party. So... when I leave a conversation in another country wishing that the other party would accidentally shit themselves at work, I tend to think they REALLY WERE ruder than the average person. Enter, then, the girl that assisted me at this counter. As I've stated, I walked into O2 to acquire a prepaid SIM for a data plan. I'm pretty solid on smartphones - I know what bands the IEEE has dictated for WiFi use, I recognize the value of a world/unlocked phone, I know the difference between GSM and CDMA. So all I did was asked for a prepaid data SIM. The lady directed me to a monthly bundle that was CLOSE to as much data as I wanted. Looked good. I went to make a purchase, and that's where things got shitty. Yes, lady. Just because you've never heard of the OnePlus One doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You don't need to pull a face. Yes, lady. It's a micro SIM, and it is unlocked. Don't roll your eyes. "Will this plan attempt to bill me at the end of the month?" "This plan is a prepaid plan." "Thank you. I'm wondering though, because some cell carriers will attempt to bill you at the end of the month for the next month. Will this plan attempt to do that?" "This is not a contract plan." "Is that a yes or a no?" Look, cell carriers are shady. Just answer my fucking question. By now, I'm mildly irritated. And I'm keeping it COMPLETELY out of my voice. What's that, your SIM tool isn't working to remove the phone? "Do you guys have paper clips?" "This is the only SIM tool I have." "...I asked if you have paper clips, not another SIM tool." "This is the only SIM tool I have." Are you a goddamn robot? "Okay, just give me the SIM and I'll figure out a way to put it in the phone later." She gets the order rung up, and I remember one last thing. This is where http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/United_Kingdom comes into play. Take a look under "content lock." To summarize, most SIMs in the UK come with a content lock that may interfere with facebook, or IM apps (like groupme or something). Reading between the lines of the link, it looks like a whitelist (everything on the 'net blocked unless specifically not blocked. May not be the case, but it looks a lot like it). You must have a UK credit card to remove it yourself, otherwise you need to ask a representative. Now, my feeling was 'better safe than sorry.' It may be old information (3G era), but hey, I use google hangouts for EVERYTHING, and I gotta have it work, or the phone is useless to me in the UK, right? Aaaand this is where the communication broke down. I asked her to remove the 'whitelist.' That was my mistake. "What?" "You know - you guys have a whitelist you're using to block some websites. I've heard it can interfere with some IM apps." "I don't understand, you mean the content lock?" She's speaking louder now. Why is she speaking louder? "Oh, yes, that. That's what it's called." "YOU MEAN UNBLOCK THE OVER-18 SITES?" Loud as possible. The rest of the customers in the store turn to stare. Thanks, bitch. Now I look like a fantastic pervert. Was "yes, that" not enough? There are two reasons this is receiving two stars. The first is because I was dumb enough to use the term 'whitelist' instead of 'content lock.' I should have known a telecom representative was just a dumb kid with a retail job. The second is that maybe she wasn't a bitch. Maybe she was JUST THAT THICK as to not realize she was being rude. Hire better, O2. Hire better. Also also - yes, I know that the OPO doesn't support band 20, where most UK telecoms serve 4G. Funny thing, that.

Summary based on one transaction: -picked up a UK SIM plus…read morevoice and data service -friendly, helpful staff with no upsell -inexpensive Recommended. I used to get service from 3, but the two shops I visted first were closed.

I bought the Blackberry 9700 for £130. this was the cheapest and best deal I could find and will…read morehave no hesitation in using Cheaptronics again

just ordered from this site it's really cheap.read more

We arrived in London on the morning of April 10, 2012 and left for the US on April 18, 2012. We…read morevisited this store 3 times to purchase prepaid minutes for our phone. The morning of 4/10 was the first visit and the salesman took time to explain our options, specially in relation to our travelling outside London and also to Paris. The two other times that we went, we got the same great customer service. This store was just around the corner from the Holiday Inn Mayfair where we stayed and the Sainsburys grocery where we shopped.

The Carphone Warehouse has been around since the time when I was using an Apple Macintosh Portable…read moreComputer, 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!

My wife and I went into Apple Store on Regent Street to collect wrist watches for my self and my…read morewife. This was a present for us from our daughter We were met by a young lady (her name was Sarah) in jeans with both her hands in her pocket. She kept her hands in her pocket all the while getting our watches and giving us a run down on the operation of these watches. She appeared least interested in looking after us. This is the most ill treatment we have received! I did not want to say anything for the fear of her not giving us the information we needed!

I recently purchased a MacBook Air for £1099 from Apple. A week later my water bottle leaked in my…read morebag and caused significant damage to the laptop. I had purchased AppleCare+ at the same time but yet have been given the run around for the last three weeks regarding my repair. They've advised that the part needed for the repair is out of stock, and that aside their repair quote came to £969.83. Surely Apple can offer me a brand-new replacement instead because I am covered by insurance right? Wrong. I'm expected to keep waiting on a repair while they wait for the part which could be months at this point (as well as being expected to pay £229 for the excess). Despite contacting Apple numerous times they have been unwilling to assist me further. What's worse is that Apple continues to sell MacBooks when they know they don't have the parts to repair them. This is extremely unethical. The staff at their Regent Street store dared to suggest I buy and return a MacBook every 14 days (no questions asked policy) until my repair has been completed. How does my Apple insurance help me here? It doesn't. And I am beyond outraged at this point. Just another company willingly taking advantage of their consumers without a care in the world.

Needed to swing into this Apple Store to purchase new AirPod Pros as I had forgotten mine in the…read morestates. Had the pleasure of being served by a young man by the name of David. He was a pleasant chap who was quick to get the items I asked, answered all my questions. It was a very quick stop but the was please with the level of customer service

The Apple Store has great customer service and fantastic products! I love this store.read more