mobile phone locked to 3

mustbemoreorganised

my partner needs a new phone, his speaker has an intermittent problem but he's on 3 and I can't find a cheap one locked to this network and don't know enough about unlocking another one, can anyone help, wanting to pay as little as poss, thanks

froggy_girl128

http://threestore.three.co.uk/payg/default.aspx but cheapest is 59.99

best bet would be ebay

Pink.

Hi mustbemoreorganised,

You should get more help with this on the Mobile Phones board so I've moved your thread across.

Pink

espresso

Be aware that the SIM's are sometimes glued into 3 PAYG handsets.

:eek:

z4kir

espresso wrote: »

Be aware that the SIM's are sometimes glued into 3 PAYG handsets.

:eek:

Thought that was an urban myth!

espresso

z4kir wrote: »

Thought that was an urban myth!

Well you know what though did don't you!

See here which took two ticks to find.

:rolleyes:

LuciferTDark

My son had a 3 phone a while ago & decided he'd like to be able to switch to another company, got the phone unlocked but every other card he tried caused the phone to become unstable. Even putting the original card back in didn't fix the problems so he recycled the phone & got himself a better model.

Stageshoot

3 Only ever actually glued the SIM in one Model, "A really cheap ZTE Flip phone", it was actually epoxy resin sealed in (you could get it out with a bit of careful scapel work)..

The reason they did it was the phones came with a PAYG sim that offered unlimited free calls to other 3 numbers for 12 months, and they did not want them putting in other handsets, but it backfired and they came out easily with a scalpel. No others have been glued in again since.

mustbemoreorganised

thanks all, can anyone recommend cheap, easily unlockable phone that he could put his Sim card into? thanks

LuciferTDark

I've found Motorola phones the easiest to unlock as they have a built in usb socket which makes it a doddle to unlock.

Nokia are a pain to unlock without a cable & can easily be permanently locked, I've got one sitting on my desk here in that state because I was given the wrong code, I have to buy a special cable to get it unlocked or pay someone with the cable to do it for me.