Can somebody shed some light onto this carrier switch situation?

Gazelle.com.

 

Ill give you $180 for it.

 

You can use it on sprint if you unlock it but you will have to jailbreak it to do it dont know much more about it but it can be done the problem is sprint probably won't activate it because the imei is not theirs

 

That's completely wrong. An AT&T iPhone cannot be used on Sprint.

 

No you could do it but you might not have all the features like sms but sprint wont let you anyway because its not their imei

 

Whoops, forgot the 4s was the only "world" iPhone, where all models had CDMA + GSM.

 

In what universe can a AT&T iphone be used on Sprint? AT&T is GSM, Sprint is CDMA, thus you have a dilema there.

What you're think is using Sprint iphone with AT&T. Which still is possible but only with a Turbo sim.

 

Yea your right sorry

 

That's what I thought, but from Apple's iPhone tech spec pages:

iPhone 4 shows separate models for GSM and CDMA.
iPhone 4S shows one model that does both GSM and CDMA.
iPhone 5 shows separate models for GSM and CDMA.

 

It won't work. Sell it and buy a sprint version.

 

Yea, thats the United States telecom industry for ya.

 

It's not that hard. Your circumstances and preferences are what make it hard. You can certainly pay full price for a new device without a contract. There are countless options for selling and/or trading in your old device but you're ruling out a couple of the more popular ones.