Help needed quick please

Chocoholic

Gonna use my Boots points to get a Nokia 6230 (yes I have spent a fortune in Boots to amass so many points ;D). I can get it with O2 or Vodafone prepay only. I'm with Virgin mobile though. Does anyone know which of O2 or Vodafone is easier/cheaper to unlock or even if I need to unlock the handset at all? I had an old Nokia before that was on T-Mobile that didn't need unlocking for Virgin sim but I've never tried an O2/Vodafone handset before.
Thanks
Choc

Fortyfoot

Hi there,
I am not an expert on this but as far as I know 02 and vodaphone use the same system and you cannot use it on the other networks. I would wait for another reply before you act.
Fortyfoot
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BarGin

You will probably need to unlock it but Nokias are quite easy to do yourself.

This site has instructions:

http://www.trycktill.com/eng/unlock_swe.asp

Click on the Union Jack for English

Browntoa

I can unlock either of these for you if you send me a private message ...

Woby_Tide

gioven the choice given the ease of unlock the O2 6230 will probably have less menus tampered with than a Vodafone 6230

supers

Help is it possible to get a mobile phone tonight anywhere in time for the morning >:( >:( >:(

matrix999

Doubt it very much, unless of course someone is selling one second hand in the paper and you can pop round to their house to collect?

supers

Thanks i`ll have to get one after the hols.

Chocoholic

Thanks for your advice everyone and for your offer Browntoa. In the end I got O2 in case I couldn't unlock it and had to stick with them since their text/call charges seem to be cheaper than Vodafone.

BarGin, I used that site to unlock it to Virgin and have had no probs so far ;D. Thank you. For anyone else wanting to try unlocking a phone: it took less than 5 minutes and it really is simple, (I'm a bit of a div when it comes to mobiles: haven't even tried a quarter of its features yet but plenty of time to play with it ).

Choc