international warranty for iPhone 5?

My iPhone says, ND298KH/A

My friend's iPhone says, MD298B/A

So. How do we know ?

Google is your friend...

The first is from China or Korea. The second is from the U.K.

The fact still remains that it is a US CDMA phone that is a Verizon phone. It works in the US on the Verizon CDMA network that only exists in the US. However, the Verizon iPhone 5 does have a sim card slot, which means that you can use the phone, but it is still a US CDMA phone and it will have to go back to the US for any problems.

It is VERY RISKY buying a used iPhone. You don't know if it is locked to a carrier. If it is you don't know which carrier. You don't know if it has been hacked to unlock it - If it has, then it can never be upgraded without relocking it. You don't know if it has been reported stolen. There was a post yesterday from someone who paid £500 for a used iPhone, then it asked him for his Apple ID when he tried to activate it. There is a feature in iOS 7 that will only allow the owner (as determined by Apple ID) to activate the phone, to make iPhones less desirable to steal. Apparently this phone had been upgraded to iOS 7 (possibly illegally), was then lost or stolen. So now it is permanently worthless to anyone, and the buyer is out £500.

Some savvy buyers ask the seller for the serial number so they can check its status. Then, when they get the phone, find that it has a different serial number than the one they were given when they asked. There are multiple posts in this forum on a daily basis who have bought used iPhone and found that they can't use them.

Hi,

I v got my french iphone 5 exchanged against an aussie one by the apple store ..
And now they dont wanna exchange my girlfriend s one from Taiwan. Not sure to understand

Consider yourself lucky that the Apple Store bent the rules on your behalf. I have heard of that happening. It is enough of an exception so I will still state the rules rather then exception.

Allan

If they exchanged your French iPhone in Australia, it was an exception, not policy. As said above, the warranty and support are not international. If you had a factory-unlocked iPhone, it's possible the model sold in Austrailia is the same hardware and so could be provided as an exchange. Taiwanese iPhones however are, to the best of my knowledge, locked to their respective carriers who do not allow unlocking, so those models will not be available to the service providers in any other country and hence support for those iPhones will not be available anywhere but in Taiwan.

Regards.

The warranty is NOT international, as has already been posted. Or if you read the warranty. You were lucky. It's also possible that the Asian phones are different enough that they didn't have a compatible model in their inventory. But regardless of the reason, Apple stores do not have to honor warranties from other countries, except within the EU.

Not that lucky cause my iphone was stolen in Bali one month later haha but yeah, got ya

The guy said that the Taiwanese model is same as the us model..
My girlfriend s phone is perfecty workin here in australia . . . i suppose the aussie one ll work in Tw also

But the genius said that the aussie iphone ll only work here n in europe so he 'cant' ; ) exchange it against a different model !

The guy was wrong. Again, the Taiwanese models are locked to their respective carriers, so even if the basic hardware is the same, the firmware is not.

Again, the warranty and support on the iPhone are officially valid only in the country in which the iPhone was originally sold.

But im tellin that the iphone from taiwan is workin with australian carreers and LTE perfectly

But I'm tellin that it doesn't matter. The warranty on a Taiwanese iPhone is valid only in Taiwan.

There's nothing more we can say to you on the subject.

Regards.

Hi,

Can somebuddy help me to understand below

Apple reserves the right to change the method by which Apple may provide warranty service to you, and your Apple Product’s eligibility to receive a particular method of service. Service will be limited to the options available in the country where service is requested. Service options, parts availability and response times may vary according to country. You may be responsible for shipping and handling charges if the Apple Product cannot be serviced in the country it is in. If you seek service in a country that is not the original country of purchase, you will comply with all applicable import and export laws and regulations and be responsible for all custom duties, V.A.T. and other associated taxes and charges. Where international service is available, Apple may repair or replace Apple Products and parts with comparable Apple Product and parts that comply with local standards.

Source: http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/iphone-english.html