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November 26th, 2007, 08:40 AM
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| iPhone unlock :: Europe Hi Guys... I've just got the best Birthday present ever... an iPhone!!!  Just arrived from NYC, and I'm a European cityzen... what to do to start "Unlocking" things up? any ideas..? Just that I feel thrill to plug it to my Mac, but guess that won't be a right move...
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#2
November 26th, 2007, 10:23 AM
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| one of our more fundamental board rules is no discussion of any kind about anything illegal. i'm not sure exactly where this stands, but i'm pretty sure it beaches EULA, and so is illegal. sorry....
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#3
November 26th, 2007, 10:51 AM
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| I understand your concern about 'fundaments', but illegal would it be when "available to the Dutch market, I would try to crack/unlock the machine". I beg your pardon, and explain you guys that in Europe iPhone just started selling, only in Ge, UK, and I heard that from December on FR too. I'm not doing anything ilegal... not yet.
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#4
November 26th, 2007, 12:49 PM
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| You can buy an unlocked phone in Germany since last week-end.
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#5
November 26th, 2007, 01:10 PM
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| In most Europe, they are supposed to sell you the unlock code when you have legally purchased the phone. So if you have a pre-pay or a contract phone, and want to move away from T-Mobile, Orange, Meteor, Vodafone or anything you got it with, they should give you the code. Sometimes they ask you to put some money on the phone to do it for free, sometimes they charge for the code, and sometimes they suggest a store or an unlocker service for it. So when you have legally bought the phone anywhere, you should be able to use it, as a consumer. That said... the first iPhone that I actually saw in real life and used was from a Swedish coworker of mine, in France. So he had bought one in San Francisco, unlocked it and used it in Sweden. If I'll catch him online, I'll check what he used for it. Since whether this is legal or not may depend on where you are while reading this or planning to do this for your own phone, if anyone finds out, just in case this might be safest to provide details in private messages. (One place without going too much into detail should be Chinatown ... London or any other, the electronic stores in them)
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#6
November 26th, 2007, 03:49 PM
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| Thanks Giaguara..! but in the Netherlands nobody sells 'officially' iPhones, neither in Spain, Belgium, etc. Just in Germany since last week, and I doubt the procedure considers 'unlocked' phones... they would be silly, since they are the ones (T-Mobile) to run the network all over Germany (and most likely in Holland too). I saw it on the airplane, on the way to Spain, carried by a dutch who claimed has bought it in Malasya... I was surprized that it wasn't a clone... hahahaha! Anyway, mine it's a Birthday present, fresh from NYC.
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December 4th, 2007, 03:33 AM
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