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Wait, Verizon's unlocked (CDMA) iPhone will work with GSM carriers, but not Sprints?
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This.
Sprint has always been the "pain" to deal with on iPhones.
If you get a Sprint iPhone they never want to unlock it ever and if you get an unlocked non-Sprint they never want to activate it.
So, it's possible for me to buy an unlocked verizon iphone 6 (without a verizon account) from apple and use it with my t-mobile prepaid account?
Absolutely. Not sure about how to actually get a full price Verizon unlocked phone, but if you can get one, it will work with AT&T and TMo fine.
There is no such thing as a domestically unlocked Sprint iPhone. It's as real as a unicorn.
If you pay full price for a Sprint iPhone you are simply buying contract free.
Here's the plan, my grandfather is eligible for an upgrade sometime in October, so I plan to upgrade his line to the iphone 6, take the iphone 6, and put back his iphone 5s, will the iphone 6 be unlocked and ready to go for any gsm carrier after that?
yep, once again it would appear that the Verizon model is the one to get. AT&T and T-Mobile devices have a CDMA chip, but not enabled, and none of the CDMA carriers would activate it. Verizon would be able to be used on AT&T and T-Mo if you choose, since VZW devices come unlocked.
Sprint would be the one to have if they were unlocked, and if VZW would activate another carrier's CDMA phone, but unfortunately, neither of those are true yet.
Sprint would be the one to have if they were unlocked, and if VZW would activate another carrier's CDMA phone, but unfortunately, neither of those are true yet.