UK: Carphone Warehouse vs O2 Store for iPhone purchase?

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answer:It’s much of a muchness to be honest. Doesn’t really matter. CPW will most likely ask you for an email address, and they will post you documentation on deals that they have related to your purchase on a quaterly basis. So nothing to really worry about there regarding spam. If they take your email address, they won’t post you stuff. They’ll email the quarterly offers instead. The only advise I would give is be very sure to find out what the faulty return policy is. From time to time this does vary from the network owned stores and CPW, not very often, but to the best of my knowledge it is different for the iPhone in the UK. At least all this is true in Ireland. Good luck on your new purchase. You’ll love it. I don’t really have the time to give you a list of apps to look into. I know quite a few. I’ll update here before you get your phone home tomorrow.

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