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Micro sim is not a big deal, either get a sim cutter or find a grey market shop who provide the service of chopping. Or you can download the template from net and cut it yourself. You need iTunes account to that country, as long as you manage that getting apps is not an issue. Also you have tons of free aps which you can download without paying money. Very rarely aps are restricted to a country. Hope this helps. | |
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Instead of me giving you wrong information, i will give you the correct information in less than a week's time since i am going to get one. Please hold your horses and then i will update after knowing from horse's mouth ![]() But as far as i know, the phones in Apple store are unlocked and no contract phones so you won't need unlock code from ATT. If you buy from ATT store you need to unlock it by calling them. Hope it makes basic sense as of now. | |
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Unlock code while travelling is also a dicey thing, so far only one person out of 4 i know have managed to get this done. Good thing iPhone 4 even on 4.1 can be unlocked and jailbroken as per iclarified. | |
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Why would they let go of their roaming charges? All phone companies are out to loot you (and I don't think I am wrongly generalizing here) They are the last of the highway bandits (if you ignore the HT retailers in India) ;-) The iPad is sold unlocked and I am using one with a Vodfone sim I cut myself. A friend of mine has 3 iPhone 4's purchased from the US in May (OS4.1) Still unable to use because no hack available (although many have claimed so on the internet). So be careful. ppr Last edited by ppr : 10th November 2010 at 13:50. | |
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now that 3G is available in India, it makes sense to spend on highend phones. atleast you can put them to better use. | |
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Unfortunately the phone one buys is sealed and there is no way to check the baseband. Might end up with an unusable phone. The Locked (but non contract) phone sin the US cost the same as a factory unlocked phone elsewhere (HK, Australia, France, Belgium, Singapore, UK) So better get one of those than go for a locked phone. |
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| ![]() No i meant for your friend to unlock, what you buy from shop will always have the latest firmware if its after 2-3 weeks of the update being launched. And AT&T is notorious with opening and activating, along with that updating the firmware when you purchase the phone. All in all buying phone in US is a pain if you are planning to use it unlocked. |
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I will be getting iphone 4 by 15th and i am coming to India in 1 month's time, so its perfect time for me to see if this unlock thing works or not. If it does well and good, else will have to find some other way. While it does't seem appropriate to disclose how its got done, its just telling them that roaming charges are horribly expensive and that i would be using local carrier. The ending statement is, i am a student and i can't afford so many charges for my trip ![]() Yes, it could be one of incident, but most of my friends have done the same thing with their 2G, 3G and 3GS and i don't see why it would be different with iphone 4. Last edited by chevelle : 10th November 2010 at 18:28. | ||
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Otherwise darn good and enjoy the iPhone 4 ![]() | |
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i don't think anyone would like to void warranty by unlocking it using software for a new iphone 4. Atleast i won't. Last edited by chevelle : 11th November 2010 at 03:28. | |
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| ![]() Unless you take international warranty its useless in India, oh coming to think of it international apple care also might not help. Since 3G and 3GS was honored by the telecom companies who sold them ![]() |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Buying unlocked iPhone from US is easiest - and cheapest - when we go for slightly used models. Browse craigslist - meet up at a Starbucks, inspect phone, pay, take home. I was impatient to do even that, so I just ordered it off eBay, an unlocked piece with 4.0 firmware. It doesn't look used at all, looks new and shiny all over. Of course, I went for 3GS because I don't want to get into sim cutting. Many of my friends are able to get their hands on used 3G models for $150 to $200 on craigslist - and they are happy at the end of the day, having spent just 6K to 9K for a 3G iPhone which works very well. Last edited by rajushank84 : 13th November 2010 at 06:35. |
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Add a $15 data plan and its one heck of phone to flaunt and use its excellent features too. | |
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