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<blockquote data-quote="MBP17•David" data-source="post: 1588835" data-attributes="member: 320225"><p>"SIM-free" means the phone was never locked to a particular network.</p><p>"Unlocked" means the phone is no longer locked to a particular network, and may or may not have been locked to one in the past.</p><p></p><p>Whether this two terms are being used correctly by a potential vendor, is another matter entirely, more so if it's a private seller. It would be prudent to enquire, regardless of which of the two terms being used to describe the phone, how exactly it became unlocked, with four possible answers: </p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Was never locked in the first place - i.e. sold SIM-free by Apple, Carphone Warehouse, eXpansys, etc, etc</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Was unlocked by Apple</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Was unlocked [officially] by the network (this is basically the same as the previous one)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Was unlocked privately</li> </ul><p></p><p>First three are fine, the fourth is a big NO-NO.</p><p></p><p>If you are in the UK, any iPhone locked to 3 originally can now be unlocked for free, officially, just by completing a <a href="http://www.three.co.uk/Support/Device_Unlock" target="_blank">form</a> on their site - a very refreshing approach, that other networks could do well to replicate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MBP17•David, post: 1588835, member: 320225"] "SIM-free" means the phone was never locked to a particular network. "Unlocked" means the phone is no longer locked to a particular network, and may or may not have been locked to one in the past. Whether this two terms are being used correctly by a potential vendor, is another matter entirely, more so if it's a private seller. It would be prudent to enquire, regardless of which of the two terms being used to describe the phone, how exactly it became unlocked, with four possible answers: [LIST] [*]Was never locked in the first place - i.e. sold SIM-free by Apple, Carphone Warehouse, eXpansys, etc, etc [*]Was unlocked by Apple [*]Was unlocked [officially] by the network (this is basically the same as the previous one) [*]Was unlocked privately [/LIST] First three are fine, the fourth is a big NO-NO. If you are in the UK, any iPhone locked to 3 originally can now be unlocked for free, officially, just by completing a [URL="http://www.three.co.uk/Support/Device_Unlock"]form[/URL] on their site - a very refreshing approach, that other networks could do well to replicate. [/QUOTE]
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