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Factory Unlocked iPhone Questions
We receive many questions regarding the Factory Unlocked iPhone like; What is it? What's the different between an iPhone and a Factory Unlocked iPhone? Which is much better? Can I still jailbreak it? If i update my firmware version will i lose my unlock feature on it? If I jailbreak it will I lose anything? Just how much does it cost? Where can I purchase it? Will Apple do international shipping on it? Do you know the countries which have it?
In some countries there are specific laws and restrictions that does not allow Apple to sell iPhones which are locked to local mobile phone providers. These laws made Apple come forth with an apple iphone that known in the market as Factory or Officially Unlocked iPhone, which is not 100% true, because this phone isn't been locked, it was made by Apple with no SIM card restrictions so that you can use it with any GSM Sim worldwide.
Among the advantages of this phone is it is not important how many times you update, upgrade or downgrade your firmware, it will still work with any Sim worldwide, you can also still jailbreak this iPhone and you do not have to worry about effecting the unlocking status of your factory unlocked iPhone. But aside from the proven fact that this iPhone is NOT locked to any specific service provider, and you can use it worldwide without having to unlock it, it's exactly like the locked iPhone.
Factory Unlocked iPhone is better than a locked iPhone due to two reasons, one its already unlocked so you do not have to be worried about unlocking it, and 2 you can upgrade your firmware version every time apple have a new version as well as your iphone will stay unlocked.
Below is a list of countries that sells Factory Unlocked iPhones:
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Czech Republic
- Ecuador
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Vietnam
Should you go to the Apple store during these countries they will let you know what you can buy the Factory Unlocked iPhone for, but there is few things that you need to know, Apple store won't ship international if you really want to obtain a factory unlocked iphone you might need to locate someone you know that lives in a single of these countries to ship it to and then they can ship it to you, another thing you need to know about the Apple Store is that they will limit you to 2 iPhones per customer, so you can't make a business out of it. Soon we will be listing the hyperlinks for the apple stores for that above countries that sells Factory Unlocked iPhone.
