Apple iphone (8gb) price reduced to £169 from tomorrow

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might head over to the o2 shop tomorrow and take a look

pinkpig08

It says on the website that you can render the phone unusable if you unlock it. Is this true or just a scare tactic?

bigbluebearbrigade

pinkpig08 wrote: »

It says on the website that you can render the phone unusable if you unlock it. Is this true or just a scare tactic?

mostly scare tactic, but you could balls the unlocking process up by mistake. but only an idiot would do that, its too easy to unlock it. :money:

mines been fine, works perfectly. texts flawless, calls are flawless. wifi is flawless too.

mandm65

pinkpig08 wrote: »

It says on the website that you can render the phone unusable if you unlock it. Is this true or just a scare tactic?

i guess these kind of warnings are not just limited to iphone, i have seen them on game consoles, DVD recorders (HD) etc.
I believe they do this to protect themsleves agaisnt any clalim and secondly as bigbluebearbrigade said, just to scare novice guys!

gjchester

bigbluebearbrigade wrote: »

mostly scare tactic, but you could balls the unlocking process up by mistake. but only an idiot would do that, its too easy to unlock it.

Not really, Apple could release a firmware release that is required (ie upgrade Itunes and the new Itunes require a set firmware, and without it you can't use the iphone with itunes, as they do to ipod) and it could brick the phone for good. However there's too great a risk that they'd bork phones that have not been locked and get more grief than it's worth. Lets face it Apple have the money for the phone, and whilst they are losing some money from people not using the service they are clearing old redundant stock quickly now.

It's would be a silly thing to do from a consumer acceptance point of view

2tellyou

I have ordered a iPhone. I am going to unlock it. Is it still possible to use the iPod(from the phone) on it via iTunes or not ? I am confused.

linkslow

Once you've used jailbreak on the phone you can use it as normal

theDadster

Anybody had any luck getting a further £20 off by trading-in an old phone + charger? I tried in one store and they were having none of it but would like to know if anybody has managed???

topper_harl

if i have an O2 pay montly sim from a different contract already & want to use the same sim on iphone, do i still have to unlock the iphone?
Thanks.

phanco

topper_harl wrote: »

if i have an O2 pay montly sim from a different contract already & want to use the same sim on iphone, do i still have to unlock the iphone?
Thanks.

I have the same question - I assume so ?