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Old 07-13-2008, 07:26 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by Evilmav2
OK... I may be completely wrong here, but I'll take a shot at answering your questions. As of today, the 3G faster internet speeds are only available on the new iphone via AT&T, but considering the fact that the new Apple iphone firmware has reportedly been hacked, eventually you should be able to utilize an unlocked iphone 3G on other carriers, either through a simple exchange of sim cards, or else by utilizing hacked software fixes to make it work. That said, because the 3G iphone was just released yesterday, it will probably be months before any volume of unlocked 3G iphones appear on ebay or elsewhere, so that's kind of pie in the sky stuff for now unless you have a lot of money that you want to burn...

Of course, you could buy an older iphone on ebay today, but it would not work with the faster 3G speeds unless Apple upgrades the 1st generations firmware sometime in the near future (something that they will probably not do for many months, again assuming that it is even possible to make the original iphone work with 3G), and also, you will not receive any kind of price break on older unlocked iphones because Europeans and Asian are buying them in droves for use overseas and consequently they are usually selling for about $400-500 on ebay (I know, I have been following the prices waiting for them to fall for quite a few months now)...

Additionally, considering the fact that you are currently an AT&T customer, it really wouldn't make much sense for you to buy any unlocked phone, mainly because even if you were to buy an unlocked 3G iphone a couple of months from now when they are more readily available, it would probably cost you more than the $199 that AT&T is currently charging, and you would still have to pay the new fees to make it's internet functions work on their 3g network. And also, your minutes and text package should all transfer over automatically to a new phone when you move your sim card from phone to phone...
Thanks. I do know it's a pie in the sky idea to try to hope to get a 3G on ebay right now and if I do, you're looking in the 1,000s for price...and I'm definitely not doing that.

Didn't know the demand for them was strong for the older unlocked iPhones...interesting. I thought it might be a little less than that.

The reason I'm looking at this all in the first place is because it's fine print from AT&T and a lot of the basic phones are available to upgrade to the new 3G at the 199 price. It's mainly people with Smart Phones. So...I would have to put down right away about 400 for the phone itself. Then you're looking at the minutes and the text packages. It's getting up to about 6 or 700. So I was just wondering if it was going to be worth it to look at the older iPhone. I don't remember the exact number, but its at the very least in that range.

So...I guess it's not really worth it? Just go for the new one.
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