Ipod touch from America

avril123

Hi

Am planning to buy a Ipod touch in America and wondered if the internet access would work in UK?

Thanks

isofa

It's Wi-Fi so you shouldn't have any problems at all.

BigBouncyBall

is there anyway to order one from the US and avoid all the taxes/duties. With the £/$ rate so good it seems to good to miss

Blacksheep1979

mine works fine, as for ordering from the US you always run the chance of it getting stopped - walking through customs when they're sat there drinking tea and eating biscuits is a lot lower risk

krysus

Yeah, would make sense...

With the current exchange rate, even with postage and import duty, it'd prob still be cheaper than over here!

BigBouncyBall

it's probably still cheaper to buy an airline ticket and fly over there and get it yourself!

AND offset your carbon emissions!

superscaper

Another thing to be aware of is that you may no longer be covered by warranty from within the UK.

isofa

AFAIK all Apple warranties are international, earlier this year they put out a service bulletin the other day stating that as from Feb all warranties are global warranties, so I'm pretty sure you'll be ok, unless someone knows otherwise, or this is specially for Applecare extended cover.

They are normally just interested in the serial number and if it was registered.

Interesting article although a few years old, here: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10004034o-2000331777b,00.htm

superscaper

If Apple are doing that then good but I think Nintendo don't for the Wii for example. So manufacturer's don't have to honour the warranty between countries (unless transferring within the EU).

Captain_Howdy_3

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

mine works fine, as for ordering from the US you always run the chance of it getting stopped - walking through customs when they're sat there drinking tea and eating biscuits is a lot lower risk

So, Blacksheep, did you have to make any changes or alter any settings to get your Touch to work in the UK?

I assume you needed a new adapter for the charger, but apart from that?

isofa

It comes with a USB dock for charging, like all iPods. So you don't need to worry about a US/UK power plug.

There will be nothing you'll need to change to get it working AFAIK.