I don't who can I order from to get the black FACTORY UNLOCKED 8gb or 16gb iPhone 3G. I don't mind burning up to $1000 USD to get one but I need to know where is a reputable place to order one. I mean If I have to make a planned vacation to visit Hong Kong I might just do that.
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How do you get a Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G in the USA?
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You don't. Because they don't sell them unlocked in the U.S. at all. Anyone claiming to do so is scamming you.
He already stated he would be willing to put down $1000.
Which, is very pricey just for an unlock iPhone 3G.
I found someone to sell me an unlocked 2G iPhone with 2.1 for only $150.
And every time there's a software upgrade he puts in his SIM card so it doesn't lock up.
I don't think the majority of you people fully understand just what exactly a Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G is. It is not base ban hacked via some tool like pwnage. IT COMES FROM APPLE fully unlocked. You can jailbrake it, update it, and throw in any sim you want BUT IT KEEPS WORKING. No matter what update you do or sim you have in it while you do it. Only China, Australia, and Belgium GSM providers can sell it as such with out a contract and carrier independent sim card support. I'm trying to find anyone here who is a world traveler and picked it up or has ordered one of them their self and knows where a reputable place to order one is.
Yeah it's a screen shot, it's unlocked by connecting to iTunes and then waiting 30s for it to unlock.
We don't have visual voicemail here and we only have one gsm carrier so i wouldn't be able to test that one
You can buy unlocked iPhones in South Africa direct from Apple stores here for just over $700 and use the network of your choice.
im not sure if you can do this, but if you do it to t-mobile it works.
you could buy a factory iphone(locked of course) and then go to ATT or apple and say that you plan to go to europe or something, and would like to unlock your iphone so you can use a sim card there
you could buy a factory iphone(locked of course) and then go to ATT or apple and say that you plan to go to europe or something, and would like to unlock your iphone so you can use a sim card there
Unfortunately Vodafone's online shop won't sell outside NZ. As a side note, when did Voda start supporting prepay?
AT&T will accommodate requests like that with the vast majority of the cell phones they carry. However, they specifically do NOT provide that service with the iPhone.
This web page lists all the countries where the iPhone is sold officially. The column titled "locked to carrier" indicates the countries and networks in which the iPhone is sold with a simlock (checkmark) or without a simlock (no checkmark).
Of those countries and networks where the iPhone is sold with a simlock, the ones referencing footnote (1) have a mechanism available where you can arrange to have the simlock removed by an authorized system.
No the phones remain unlocked forever. And they will work with any carrier that uses a sim card.
Not true a factory unlocked phone will remain unlocked even at updating. It will allow you to swap SIMs between carriers no problem. There are many of these unlocked phones available in EU and ASIA.
Also France sells factory unlocked phones.
I do believe that's what he was saying, that they stay unlocked. So yes, it is true.
Will AT&T unlock an iPhone after one has already kept it for 30+ days, paid the first months bill + any remainder, canceled their contract, and then paid the ETF in full? (That's about $199 + $30 + $75 + $175 + taxes.) Or what do you get to do with the iPhone you get to keep?
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Will an iPhone dealer in Belgium or Australia sell one to a tourist with a U.S. credit card? There are some pretty cheap airfares available these days... a reasonable deal on an iPhone could help offset the cost of a vacation.
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Probably not, but then again I'm not for sure.
And to answer your first question, it is still locked, but you have to do the unlock yourself. At least, that is what is more than likely. The first iPhone wasn't really "carrier locked". If you took a stock iPhone you could only put an AT&T SIM in it, but if you ZiPhone'd it, you could put any SIM card in it.
Care to elaborate on that assertion?
In my interpretation, the fact that a stock 1st generation iPhone wouldn't accept anything but an AT&T SIM card was evidence that it was "carrier locked". ZiPhoning it involved the process of modifying the firmware to remove the carrier lock.