I will be in NYC so AT&T coverage won't be a problem. Are you saying that people in NYC have no option but to stick with AT&T if they want to use a GSM iPhone on 3G, even after expiry of their contract?
So much for competition.
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Apple Now Selling Unlocked iPhone 4 in U.S.
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I will be in NYC so AT&T coverage won't be a problem. Are you saying that people in NYC have no option but to stick with AT&T if they want to use a GSM iPhone on 3G, even after expiry of their contract?
So much for competition.
I wonder how many Canadians bother paying full price for an unlocked phone since the GSM carrier monopoly is similar to the US.
1. Apple is a poor, struggling company.
2. You don't want to know how much the iPhone costs to make.
3. Magic.
Most of those are special purpose and/or locked though.
The situation is what it is for at least a couple more years until LTE over voice becomes standard. With 60+% of the market (and most of the carriers who actually invest in their networks) being CDMA there is no real option for this currently. To be honest, I think AT&T's exclusive iPhone deal with cingular in the states killed most of the prospects for a strong US GSM network. The competition had no incentive to switch.
looks like you missed the keyword in my post. MICRO-SIM.
it doesn't matter if an MVNO (h20, c bell etc) is using at&t tower, they are using regular/standard size SIM cards, not MICRO-SIM. that's why you must get your service from at&t (at least in the USA) whether your iphone is locked or not.
can you tell me which provider use micro-sim cards in the US?
take a pair of scissors or a knife and cut the regular size sim from a gophone to a microsim size and pop it in your iphone 4. Works like a charm.
cut a regular size sim down to a microsim size and pop in your iphone. it's not difficult.
T-Mobile
If I wanted to use an unlocked iPhone on t-mobile for just calls and texts, could I do it? I know I would have to cut down the micro-sim card and if I wanted data it would only be able to use edge, but I have wifi everywhere, just want my phone to have everything all-in-one.
If I wanted to use an unlocked iPhone on t-mobile for just calls and texts, could I do it? I know I would have to cut down the micro-sim card and if I wanted data it would only be able to use edge, but I have wifi everywhere, just want my phone to have everything all-in-one.
Actually, it's a lot better here in Canada now. True, Rogers and Fido are the only GSM (Edge) providers (though they are the same company), but Bell and Telus rolled out their 3G HSPA network about 2 years ago making the iPhone compatible with just about every carrier in Canada.
In Canada, you can buy an unlocked iPhone and use it on:
Rogers
Bell
Telus
Fido
Koodo
Virgin Mobile
With Telus, Koodo and Rogers, you can use the iPhone on prepaid with their prepaid data plans.
I'm looking at picking up an unlocked iPhone 5 and switching to Koodo later this year.
Russian and Ukraine are in Eastern europe, but but part of the EU.
New York State.
Its not a sole country, its 50 of them in a political union.
Roughly $700 after taxes +/- $25.
Yeah pretty much.
my boss must be crying inside
My boss last month spent $2,000 on white and black unlocked iphones he bought on ebay. He must feel crunchy...haha
My boss last month spent $2,000 on white and black unlocked iphones he bought on ebay. He must feel crunchy...haha
again, i'm not sure why everyone is stuck on the microsim issue. regular sim cards can be cut down to microsim size.
Just to be one of the (many) indignant brits
, the $750 32Gb costs equivalent $1015 in the UK. (naturally I know US prices are shown without sales tax)The USA has it goooood
I don't see how this helps people like me who never travel outside of the US. What are the advantages of an unlocked phone if I never leave my coverage area?
I don't see how this helps people like me who never travel outside of the US. What are the advantages of an unlocked phone if I never leave my coverage area?
that's the problem. there is zero competition in the USA. Either AT&T or TMobile, but then again AT&T is trying to buy them. So that would eliminate that real quick also.
I don't see how this helps people like me who never travel outside of the US. What are the advantages of an unlocked phone if I never leave my coverage area?
There aren't. It's mostly for those who travel a lot and want to switch sim cards and use on different carriers or use on carriers in the US that do not offer iPhone in a contract, if there are any.
I haven't read through the whole thread, but why in the world would someone in the US care about getting an unlocked iphone with a microsim? Even if you don't want a contract, you'll still be paying the same monthly fee as someone on a contract, and if you sign up for the contract you get the phone at the much lower price. Plus the ETF is less than the difference between the unlocked phone price and the locked phone price. So the unlocked phone does not make sense to me. Can't even take it to Europe and get a sim there because of the microsim. So I don't get it, at least for US customers.