i think if you buy from Apple.com, it's unlocked, paying for it full priceThere has been a lot of talk about the Verizon model being unlocked and able to work on AT&T/Tmobile, etc. is the same true of the Sprint model, or has Sprint locked it up, regardless of whether you pay full price for it?
Sprint is CDMA, ATT/Tmobile are GSM. So if you have a Sprint phone you are locked into CDMA networks. Most international networks are GSM so if you travel a lot like I do, then the Sprint phone is not a good option.There has been a lot of talk about the Verizon model being unlocked and able to work on AT&T/Tmobile, etc. is the same true of the Sprint model, or has Sprint locked it up, regardless of whether you pay full price for it?
Sprint is CDMA, ATT/Tmobile are GSM. So if you have a Sprint phone you are locked into CDMA networks. Most international networks are GSM so if you travel a lot like I do, then the Sprint phone is not a good option.
^^^Yep.Actually not entirely correct. Yes sprint is cdma and most are gsm. But the sprint and Verizon iPhone 7s are the same. Verizon has theirs automatically unlocked but you can pay off a sprint iPhone and use it pretty much everywhere, it's better than the att model because it supports Verizon and sprint cdma too.
You just have to unlock the phone first which you have to do with most besides the Verizon model or an unlocked model
Sprint is CDMA, ATT/Tmobile are GSM. So if you have a Sprint phone you are locked into CDMA networks. Most international networks are GSM so if you travel a lot like I do, then the Sprint phone is not a good option.
I don't think this statement is correct. I bought the world wide unlocked iPhone 6 direct from the Apple Store online and it was advertised as being ATT/Tmobile compatible for USA use. It also came with a Tmobile SIM if you were inclined to activate it which I didn't. Furthermore I know people with iPhone 3S, and 4 models that had the Sprint models, brought them overseas to find out that they were useless as they didn't even use SIM's, a lot of carrier locked CDMA phones were this way.^^^Yep.
Additionally, the Sprint iPhone 6/6+ was the model Apple used as their SIM Free version. The only difference at the time Apple was selling it was that the Sprint model was locked and the SIM free version was not.
The 6s/6s+ were slightly less compatible, but still world phones.
Earlier iPhones and phones, especially prior to LTE, are fairly different and aren't all that useful as comparisons to what the phones have been like for some years now.I don't think this statement is correct. I bought the world wide unlocked iPhone 6 direct from the Apple Store online and it was advertised as being ATT/Tmobile compatible for USA use. It also came with a Tmobile SIM if you were inclined to activate it which I didn't. Furthermore I know people with iPhone 3S, and 4 models that had the Sprint models, brought them overseas to find out that they were useless as they didn't even use SIM's, a lot of carrier locked CDMA phones were this way.
I don't think this statement is correct. I bought the world wide unlocked iPhone 6 direct from the Apple Store online and it was advertised as being ATT/Tmobile compatible for USA use. It also came with a Tmobile SIM if you were inclined to activate it which I didn't. Furthermore I know people with iPhone 3S, and 4 models that had the Sprint models, brought them overseas to find out that they were useless as they didn't even use SIM's, a lot of carrier locked CDMA phones were this way.