Comments on: Unlocked iPhone on tap for Wednesday? (And what’s an “unlocked” phone?) https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/06/13/unlocked-iphone-tap-wednesday/ Making sense of gadgets and technology Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Anonymous https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/06/13/unlocked-iphone-tap-wednesday/#comment-61 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:55:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=921#comment-61 In reply to Iamheddy.

Basically, the unlocked iPhone will work with any SIM card (or micro-SIM card, to be precise) that has minutes on it. Since Sprint and Verizon are CDMA networks, and CDMA doesn’t use SIM cards, they’re out. But T-Mobile has pre-paid micro-SIM cards that would work—and if you search Amazon, you’ll find dozens of pre-paid carriers with iPhone-compatible micro-SIM cards.

]]> By: New “unlocked” iPhone is a no-go for Sprint, Verizon : here’s the thing https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/06/13/unlocked-iphone-tap-wednesday/#comment-59 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:43:52 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=921#comment-59 […] 4 unceremoniously appeared on the online U.S. Apple Store early Tuesday—a day earlier that the rumors had suggested—for an eye-popping $649 for the 16GB iPhone 4 or $749 for the 32GB […]

]]> By: Iamheddy https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/06/13/unlocked-iphone-tap-wednesday/#comment-58 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:28:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=921#comment-58 If I have Virgin Mobil, I am on the Sprit network and can’t use an unlocked iPhone? Does one of the other low cost cell service providers run on T Mobile’s network? 

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