Hands-on with the O2 iPhone

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Alan Partridge @ Sep 18th 2007 6:26AM

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?

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cmc07 @ Sep 18th 2007 6:31AM

Yeah, think you still have to pay your contract though. Thats one damn expensive unlocked iPhone if you want to do that.

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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.

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Nero3000 @ Sep 18th 2007 6:54AM

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?

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BTaylor @ Sep 18th 2007 7:24AM

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.

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Dominic Yates @ Sep 18th 2007 7:39AM

rather than trying to get apple or o2 to unlock it. do it yourself for free!!

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Alpha899 @ Sep 18th 2007 3:49PM

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

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MARSHAK @ Sep 21st 2007 1:38AM

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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