I believe in the US the are required to unlock after term.
Are you reluctant to jailbreak your phone to unlock it?
iPhone is the only GSM phone I have heard of that you have to go to such lengths to unlock it. My Blackberry's and Treos, it was just a matter of buying an unlock code form a website for $20. I wonder if the fact that they are more open to being unlocked will mean that they will put less effort into making the thing un-unlockable.
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Also, I don't understand why the subsidized models are still locked to a carrier... we are locked into a contract anyways, so why should we be stuck with the same carrier if we choose to end the contract early and pay the huge cancelation fees?
And what about when the contract ends? Why should we be locked to a certain carrier?
Right. I'm referring to the US prices of 599/699 which is for an unsubsidized version, not unlocked. Sorry for the confusion.
I believe in the US the are required to unlock after term.
Are you reluctant to jailbreak your phone to unlock it?
iPhone is the only GSM phone I have heard of that you have to go to such lengths to unlock it. My Blackberry's and Treos, it was just a matter of buying an unlock code form a website for $20. I wonder if the fact that they are more open to being unlocked will mean that they will put less effort into making the thing un-unlockable.
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The current iPhone firmware can be jailbroken but I've yet to find an unlock that works. I have found jailbreaking to cause instability in the past but will do it if necessary.
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I was thinking the same thing. I wonder why they wouldn't make the prices the same, since the US and Canadian currencies are back and forth around par though. Oh well... $50 more doesn't really matter. Given the option now though... I'm thinking about the unlocked version, unless there is someway to have my phone unlocked after. I just hate the fact that I have to jailbreak to unlock my phone if I'm travelling.
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Given that unsubsidized iPhone 3GSes are 699(16GB) and 799(32GB) right now in Canada, I wouldn't expect an unlocked one at a price point lower than that for the newest *bestest* thing.
Hi, really new here and a current Iphone 3GS owner on Fido, I find it terrible what they do here in Canada and I promised myself that I was going to buy the next iPhone unlocked. I was going to go as far as getting it from the UK from a friend and have it shipped here until I saw this thread, but barring everything else my main concern is that if I purchase a LEGALLY unlocked iphone 4 will it stay unlocked after i swap the SIM card (cut to micro sim size of course!) What I mean to say is, once I swap out my old SIM from my 3gs to the 4 I'm assuming i'll have to activate the phone in iTunes with apple's activation servers, once they see I'm on fido will they upload some sort of Fido specific lock onto the phone thus rendering my phone unlocked iphone useless? I hope this isn't what will happen because I'd love to be able to swap SIM cards easily when traveling to the states or europe?
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