Sim-free Iphone 4s

The Carphone Warehouse do not sell unlocked iPhones in the UK only the Apple Retail Stores as you have found out

Firstly only the carrier the iPhone is locked to can authorise Apple to unlock no one else and Apple will certainly not unlock without that request

If I understand you put a UK vodafone sim into the iPhone4s in the UK ?

If so it will have locked to vodafone if that is the case vodafone UK do unlock iPhones apparently

this link may help

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/personal/index.htm >>>>support then search for "unlocking webform "

Whether they will , as the iPhone is not active on their network is questionable

Peter Gillespie wrote:

The Carphone Warehouse do not sell unlocked iPhones in the UK only the Apple Retail Stores as you have found out

Wrong.

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/choose-tariff/APPLE-IPHONE-4S-32GB/HAND SET

SIM-Free 🙂

Read the OP again carefully

CPW told him it will lock to the first carrier then he can't change

That is not unlocked it is a sim free sale

Ah, ok! My bad, I'll shut up! 🙂

But still, if CPW are selling the exact same SIM-Free phones as Apple, why don't Apple's lock?

Because Apple are the straight guys in UK 😉

In reality the iPhone is locked at point of sale in UK which is why occassionally a phone sold as unlocked by Apple accidently gets locked by mistake.

Question is why CPW are selling at list when the iPhone is not a truly carrier free iPhone

Answer because they can get away with it 😐

Thats false advertising then. A SIM-Free phone is usually always unlocked, so if its being locked after one sim card, its not unlocked. Apple really should get on to CPW and sue their ***! But its still really getting me as why CPW are selling the EXACT same SIM-Free "unlocked" iPhone as Apple and yet CPW's iPhones get locked after one sim card! So you are paying £499 for a SIM-Free locked-after-one-sim-card iPhone and Apple are selling a forever unlocked iPhone for the exact same price. I think I know where most people are gonna go...

johnnyboy360 wrote:

Thats false advertising then. A SIM-Free phone is usually always unlocked, so if its being locked after one sim card, its not unlocked. Apple really should get on to CPW and sue their ***! But its still really getting me as why CPW are selling the EXACT same SIM-Free "unlocked" iPhone as Apple and yet CPW's iPhones get locked after one sim card! So you are paying £499 for a SIM-Free locked-after-one-sim-card iPhone and Apple are selling a forever unlocked iPhone for the exact same price. I think I know where most people are gonna go...

hardly ,buyer beware

they sell simfree ....correct

They advise that first sim will lock it .....you would appear not to be in the Uk from your comments or you

might understand CPW and sorry but this life

ps I wouldn't go there without knowing exactly what |I was doing

I do live in the UK. And I know a bit about CPW. But my point is, if its the same SIM FREE UNLOCKED iPhone 4S as Apple, why does CPW lock???

johnnyboy360 wrote:

I do live in the UK. And I know a bit about CPW. But my point is, if its the same SIM FREE UNLOCKED iPhone 4S as Apple, why does CPW lock???

Because it is not

CPW used to buy from the " network" now they get supply direct from Apple

They cover all the UK carriers and to make their own life easier they sell it sim free or they will lock it to a carrier if they also sell a PAYG or contract sale

They do not claim it is unlocked although technically it is but SIM Free which it also is

They also tell their sim free customers that it will lock to the first sim that is put in which it does .

Apple sell truly unlocked iPhones because thats the way they want to operate .

CPW also do their own thing

If it gives you a problem buy some shares and complain as a share holder