In countries like US, UK and India apple usually links up with the local telecom providers from whom you buy the iphone 4. These service providers like AT&T, airtel and vodafone sell the iphones for a price much lesser than the original and oblige you to sign contracts for few years with them inorder to use their mobile and data plans.
But this is not the case with countries like NewZealand, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore. Due to their government policies apple sell the legally unlocked iphone 4. It means you wont need to unlock these phones in order to use the local service providers sim card in iPhone 4. When you buy it from apple what you would get is a factory unlocked iphone 4 which is legal and doesn’t break the warranty of the iphone4. Moreover you wont be put into any contracts like the other countries and you could use the iphone 4 with the service provider of your choice.
If you are thinking of buying the new unlocked iphone 4 and want to sell your old one here is a ppost on where to sell old iphones ?.
If you are visiting the above mentioned countries or if you have got some one in there, be sure to get factory unlocked iphone 4 from there and you dont need to worry regarding the warranty of iphone 4.
Buy Unlocked iPhone 4 (Approximate Prices)
iPhone 4 16 GB (factory unlocked):
HongKong – HK$ 5,388 => USD 695 => 570 Euro.
New Zealand – 1,150.00 NZD => 791 USD => 655.033 Euro.
Australia – 879.00 AUD => 746.991 USD => 617.287 Euro
iPhone 4 32 GB (factory unlocked):
HongKong – HK$ 6,288 => USD 812 => 667 Euro.HK$ 6,288 => USD 812 => 667 Euro.
New Zealand – 1,349.00 NZD => 928.172 USD => 768.422 Euro
Australia – 1,040.00 AUD => 882.469 USD => 730.121 Euro
Apart from these three countries like Malaysia, Greece, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Belgium, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Macau and UAE are authorized to sell the factory unlocked iphone 4.
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hi amal,
I heard that iphone in US are very cheap like price for 4g with contract in only 149$ and u can unlock these very easily in india. Is this true.
mine one friend from US is coming to India on December end, Please help me.
This is really a misconception of most of the indians, in india iphone sold for a price around 30k is without any contract, that means you could use it any where. As the phone is sold in contract basis in us you cant get that to india, but you could get an unlocked version from us.
I am using Iphone 3gs locked with vodafone, soon I am going to visit Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai and Pakistan
My questions is can I use my locked phone in these countries?
In order to use the iphone on these places u need to unlock the iphone.
i live in malaysia..what if i buy an iphone 4 in US, can I refuse to sign the contract and bring the phone home in malaysia and unlocked it?
@koko
Yes you could always buy a locked iphone 4 and later unlock it to use other network providers.
Also you can get one from Local Turkey Apple Stores after 13th October Factory for
unlocked
iphone 4 > 16 GB > 1066 $
> 32 GB > 1366 $
contract
iphone 4 > 16 GB > free > 127 $ per month or 16 GB >500 $ > 50$ per month
iphone 4 > 32 GB > 75 $ > 127 $ or 32 GB >575 $ > 50 $
a little bit expensive for comparing for others huh ? :)
@Amal
Please note that the US version of the iPhone is provider-locked to AT&T and the Japanese version is locked to Softbank. This being said, an iPhone4 purchased in these countries cannot be used with other providers.
The Apple Store in Hong Kong sold the iPhone 3GS unlocked and may do so with the iPhone4. However, it's not yet released in Hong Kong. Moreover, some people reported that one cannot buy an iPhone in HK without having an address in Hong Kong. Naturally, they don't ship iPhones outside of Hong Kong.
i m sooner going to visit malaysia, singapore and thailand so from where i can get unlocked ? iphone 4 ? so that i can use it n Pakistan ? or else
@Amar one it is released in Malaysia and Singapore u'll be able to do as u said. But if it is necessary you could get from friends in UK, US, France and Japan etc where it have been already released and is available. You need to wait until the iphone 4 is released in those above mentioned countries where it will be officially unlocked and sold.
Where in Australia can I buy iPhone 4?
You could get it from the official apple store in Australia once it is available.
I wish to have an iphone 4G can you send it to france??