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cbank30
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So the Verizon iPhone 5 will work on the LTE bands here in Korea... but the CDMA (3G) will not be available because Korea is GSM (3G)
Is this what others have discovered? |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| What about the other way around? Will an iPhone 4 bought in Korea work in the USA? |
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mcloo7
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| Forgive my ignorance but I've never owned a smart phone. Is the monthly charge for smart phone service a lot more than for regular cell phones? |
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T-J
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Wangta01
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Subscribing. Curious to see if US iPhone 5 will work in Korea.
Not sure if you guys saw this, but the iPhone 5's that have been released thus far are UNLOCKED. Thus, an iphone 5 purchased from Verizon can be activated and used on AT&T and vice versa.
Also, I was under the impression all the iPhone 5s assentially are the same now - unlike previous iPads and iPhones. The Verizon/Sprint and AT&T iPhone 5's all have the same components, and will work on ALL LTE carriers GLOBALLY (something that the New iPad cannot do - still baffles me why they didn't include that). Am I wrong on this? Seems to make sense given an AT&T iPhone 5 can work on Verizon and vice versa?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57518379-37/verizon-iphone-5-comes-unlocked-usable-on-at-t/ |
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Wangta01
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, further digging - seems the Verizon iPhone 5 WILL work with pretty much every carrier - AT&T, Tmobile - and I'm guessing Korean SIMs.
Fack. I should of pre-ordered. |
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Donkeycorn
Joined: 24 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| Yes the verizon iphone 5 is unlocked but its only gsm unlocked. it is still carrier locked. so you have to get verizon to unlock it for u which seems hard to get them to do it. even if you buy the iphone 5 from verizon off contract at full retail it is still locked to the carrier |
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Wangta01
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul, S. Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| Donkeycorn wrote: |
| Yes the verizon iphone 5 is unlocked but its only gsm unlocked. it is still carrier locked. so you have to get verizon to unlock it for u which seems hard to get them to do it. even if you buy the iphone 5 from verizon off contract at full retail it is still locked to the carrier |
I'm not sure you're right about that. Did you watch the video? It shows the guy putting in another carriers card and the phone working. I think it was AT&T, which is shockin given its a Verizon phone.
I looked into it a bit more - all Verizon 4g LTE phones have to be unlocked by law. So it's not just the Verizon iPhone 5 that is unlocked. |
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Donkeycorn
Joined: 24 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| Wangta01 wrote: |
| Donkeycorn wrote: |
| Yes the verizon iphone 5 is unlocked but its only gsm unlocked. it is still carrier locked. so you have to get verizon to unlock it for u which seems hard to get them to do it. even if you buy the iphone 5 from verizon off contract at full retail it is still locked to the carrier |
I'm not sure you're right about that. Did you watch the video? It shows the guy putting in another carriers card and the phone working. I think it was AT&T, which is shockin given its a Verizon phone.
I looked into it a bit more - all Verizon 4g LTE phones have to be unlocked by law. So it's not just the Verizon iPhone 5 that is unlocked. |
I hope that's true because I've been thinking of getting a verizon iphone 5. i even called them to see if it would be carrier unlocked. they said it would not be carrier unlocked but that's just from a sales. she didnt seem to know very much. |
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