I thought the unlocked phone is the same as buying an unlocked T-mobile phone from Apple directly?
When I bought the 6+ last year I paid the full $850 and bought from Apple directly. Is that the unlocked phone? Or is there another phone? I thought that phone would work with any SIM carrier.
(iPhone 6/6+ section)
i tried to write apple blogs , including mac rumors, bgr, apple insider, to write stories about how verizon vs t-mobile vs sim free was ripping people off. i even have a rambling post in the for sale advice section, this is what you get. for a year now i have been telling people that every single iPhone 6 is exactly the same as any other iPhone 6. they all have the same radios, the only difference is the one that sprint likes has 4 extra sprint Spark channels thrown in.
when i complain about a unlocked phone being somehow worth $125 less then a Verizon one, people are actually happy about it, and they say that is just the free market. they don't see a problem with a company like gazelle stealing $125 off their already low trade in values. they don't seem to have a problem with a company offering $125 less for the exact same model
there are two iPhones 6 series phones
one is a verizon , t-mobile and AT&T model , they are exactly all the same phone , that one is called the t-mobile unlocked phone, originally, verizon was not activating this phone, but 3 weeks ago verizon changed their mind. they flipped the switch and this model works on verizon, without having to use a pulled sim from another handset
the other is a verizon , t-mobile, AT&T and sprint phone ( with 4 extra Spark channels) , that one is called the sim free one
if a company , even amazon, tells you there is any kind of price difference between any of those unlocked phones and an AT&T or verizon model, then don't do business with them. if you have a t-mobile or sprint phone, get the maximum value for your iPhone 6 by trying to get it a carrier unlock first.
even walmart is cheating people out of unlocked phones and paying $80 less for the unlocked model then the verizon one.
the only company that is playing by the rules and is giving you the exact same price for any model is bright star (apple recycling)
iphone 5s section
AT&T phones cant be used on verizon because they lack the CDMA frequencies, and Verizon phones can be used on AT&T, but sprint is still being a butts and they only want the sprint handset they sell directly. so price differences between models is fair. an AT&T phone should be worth less then a verizon one. a verizon phone works on AT&T with no technical issues. the verizon phone has a cdma radio, the AT&T iPhone 5s ships with its cdma disabled
iphone 5/5c section
same thing with the 5s as far as AT&T vs verizon, but it only had 3 or 4 channels. they were optimized for a particular network. meaning if you took a verizon iPhone 5 to AT&T it would work fine at slower 4G speeds (HSPA+). a verizon iPhone comes with verizon LTE channels, and an AT&T iPhone comes with AT&T LTE channels.
