I think your right about that. However, have you ever tride to get the unlock codes. I did once and it was going to cost me about £60 and take forever, in the end I just went down the local indoor market to a chap with more laptops than PCworld who did some stuff with leads and things with lights and unlocked it for £10, I felt like a cold war spy or somthing.
By buying the iphone in a store, you have not signed up to a contract with O2 until you sign onto itunes and choose there. So there is no contract to pay out though?
You can unlock it without paying the contract. You are perfectly within your rights to do that in the UK. However, you'll need to use iUnlock/SimFree or pay the dodgy bloke at the market a tenner to do it for you. If it won't run with my pay as you go O2 sim out the box, I'll be heading that route.
Or just don't be a sheep and DON'T buy into the hype - for a phone that isn't even 3G thats one expensive phone. Funny that O2 got the deal, seeing how their 02 XDA product line these days could be mistaken for a iphone clone.
alpha, think of what engadet is and the people who read it. everyone here has at some point bought some piece of crap technology that was overpriced because they just plain wanted it. my earliest experience with this was probably $200 for a gameboy colour because it was a pokemon edition. I was 10. so who cares if someone wants to spend a few hundred on a cell phone. I am not buying the iphone because I love my w810i. NOT because I hate the iphone. dont want it? don't buy it. want it? buy it and be happy while leaving us non-iphone owners the fuck alone.
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By UK law don't carriers have to unlock phones, they can charge a small fee (310-£20) but they still have to unlock them, right?
Yeah, think you still have to pay your contract though. Thats one damn expensive unlocked iPhone if you want to do that.
I think your right about that. However, have you ever tride to get the unlock codes. I did once and it was going to cost me about £60 and take forever, in the end I just went down the local indoor market to a chap with more laptops than PCworld who did some stuff with leads and things with lights and unlocked it for £10, I felt like a cold war spy or somthing.
By buying the iphone in a store, you have not signed up to a contract with O2 until you sign onto itunes and choose there. So there is no contract to pay out though?
You can unlock it without paying the contract. You are perfectly within your rights to do that in the UK. However, you'll need to use iUnlock/SimFree or pay the dodgy bloke at the market a tenner to do it for you. If it won't run with my pay as you go O2 sim out the box, I'll be heading that route.
rather than trying to get apple or o2 to unlock it. do it yourself for free!!
Or just don't be a sheep and DON'T buy into the hype - for a phone that isn't even 3G thats one expensive phone. Funny that O2 got the deal, seeing how their 02 XDA product line these days could be mistaken for a iphone clone.
Or get a China Clone: http://www.mp4nation.com/products/index.php?PID=cellphones
alpha, think of what engadet is and the people who read it. everyone here has at some point bought some piece of crap technology that was overpriced because they just plain wanted it. my earliest experience with this was probably $200 for a gameboy colour because it was a pokemon edition. I was 10. so who cares if someone wants to spend a few hundred on a cell phone. I am not buying the iphone because I love my w810i. NOT because I hate the iphone. dont want it? don't buy it. want it? buy it and be happy while leaving us non-iphone owners the fuck alone.